By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 237 



PULMONARIA, (LiNN.) LxjNGWORT. 



Linn. CI. v. Ord. i. 



Name. From Pulmo, the lungs; from the use formerly made of 

 this and other Boraginacece in pulmonary affections. In the present 

 instance, the spotted leaves, resembling the lungs, were the princii>al 

 recommendation. 



1. P. officinalis, (Linn.) common Lungwort, Jerusalem Cows-lips. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 118, {excluding the root-leaves, which belong to P. 

 angustifolia) . 



Locality. In woods and thickets. P. Fl. April, May. Area, 

 * * * 4. * 



North Division. 



4. North-tcest District. In Stocky Lane, Bromham ; but have 

 always considered it an outcast from the garden at Nonsuch, which 

 is separated from it only by a hedge. " In a shady lane about a 

 mile from Bromham," Mr. Norris, (Withering Bot. Arr.) Possibly 

 this and the first locality may be the same. About 1 foot high. 

 Stem-leaves all more or less ovate ; lower ones petiolate, upper ones 

 sessile ; all with short hairs and frequently spotted. Corolla reddish 

 or flesh-coloured in the bud, changing as soon as expanded to violet 

 blue ; tube whitish, a little longer than the calyx. There is a 

 variety with white flowers, not unfrequent in gardens. 



LiTHOSPERMUM, (LiNN.) GrOMWELL. 



Linn. CI. V. Ord. i. 



Name. From (lithos), a stone, and (sperma) , a seed ; from its 

 very hard shining seeds or achenes. The English Gromwell has a 

 similar origin in Celtic : graun, a seed, and mil, a stone. 



1. L. officinale, (Linn.) common Gromwell. Engl. Bot. t. 134. 



Locality. Dry waste, and uncultivated places, and among rubbish. 

 P. Fl. June, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4.5. In all the Districts, but 

 not a very common plant in Wilts. Whole plant rongh, with erect, 

 appressed, rigid and tuberculated bristles. Flowers pale yellow. 

 Nuts gray, highly polished, and of a stony hardness, seldom more 

 than 2 or 3 ripening in each calyx. The seeds, which resemble 

 minature eggs of porcelain, would from the stony hardness of the 



