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FUIiinONARIA (from pulmo, pulmonis, a lung ; 

 the spotted leaves were supposed to resemble diseased 

 lungs, and hence, by the " doctrine of signatures." a sup- 

 posed efficacy in the disease was ascribed to the plants). 

 Lungwort. Oed. BoraijineoB. A genus comprising four 

 species of hardy, perennial herbs, natives of Europe, and 





Fig. 323. UrPER Portion of Plant oi' Pui.v.o.naria 



OFFirlNALlS. 



mostly Western Asia. Flowers blue or rose-purple, 

 pedicellate, disposed in terminal, bifid cymes ; lower ones, 

 or almost all, bracteate ; calyx five-fid ; corolla funnel- 

 shaped, with a cylindrical tube and five imbricated, 

 broad, obtuse, spreading lobes. Nutlets four, broad, 

 erect. Leaves generally spotted with white ; radical ones 

 usually ample, petiolate ; cauline ones few, alternate. 

 The species are of easy culture in almost any mode- 

 rately good garden soil. Propagated by dividing the 

 clumps in early spring. Several species formerly in- 

 cluded here are now referred to Mertensia (which see). 



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Fig. 324. Pi'LMo.naria s.\cciiabata, slmwint; Habit and 

 detached Inflc resceuce. 



P, angustifolia (narrow-leaved).* Blue Cowslip. Ji. at tii-.st 

 pink, but ultimately bricht bhie ; racemes twin, capitate. Spring. 

 I, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, clothed with soft, down-like 

 hairs. It. 1ft. Europe (Britain). (8>-. En. B. 1097.) 



P, mollis (soft). Jl. blue ; calyx rather longer tlian the tube of 

 the corolla. April and May. i., radical ones elliptic-lanceolate 



Fulmonaria — continued. 



or lanceolate, decurrent into the broadly-winged petiole ; cauline 

 ones ovate-lanceolate semi-amplexicaul. h. 9in. Europe, Siberia, 

 &c.. 1805. See Fig. 322. (B. M. 2422.) 



P. ofBcinalis (ofbcinal). Sage of Bethlehem, iSc. fl. red at first, 

 then violet, terminal. Spring. (. sciibrous, radical ones ovate- 

 cordate, cauline ones ovate-oblong, sessile, spotted with white. 

 h. 1ft. Europe, &c. (Britain). See Fig. 323. (Sy. En. B. 1098.) 

 There is a white-flowered form of this species. 



P. saccharata (sugared).* /f. pink. June. ^, radical onesoval, 

 acuminate at both ends, decurrent at base into the short petioles ; 

 cauline ones sessile, ovate-oblong, h. 1ft. Europe, 1817. See 

 Fig. 324. 



FULSATILIiA. See Anemone Pulsatilla. 



FULTIiN'SlA (probably named after Dr. Richard 

 Pulteney, 1730-lSnl, author of "Historical and Bio- 

 graphical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England, 

 from its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnsean 

 System," and other works of merit). Including 

 Eiichilus and Spadostyles. Ord. Lerjuminosoe. A genus 

 comprising seventy-five species of ornamental, green- 

 house, evergreen shrubs, confined to Australia. Flowers 

 yellow, orange, or mixed with purple, axillary and 

 solitary, or crowded in terminal heads, and surrounded 

 within the floral leaves by imbricated, scarious, brown 

 bracts or enlarged stipules without any lamina ; two 

 upper lobes of calyx more or less united into an upper 

 lip ; petals on rather long claws ; standard nearly orbi- 

 cular ; wings oblong ; keel incurved ; stamens free. Pods 

 ovate, flat or turgid, two-valved. Leaves opposite or 

 rarely ternately whorled, simple, sometimes flat or with 

 revolute margins, sometimes concave or with incurved 

 margins ; stipules linear-lanceolate or setaceous, brown 

 and scarious. Pultenajas succeed best in fibrous peat, to 

 which about one-seventh part of silver sand should bo 

 added. They require, like many other hard-wooded 

 Australian plants, firm potting, and very careful water- 

 ing with soft water. Propagated by imported seeds ; 

 and from cuttings, made of the points of shoots when 

 about three parts matured. The latter should be in- 

 serted in very sandy peat, covered with a bell glass, 

 placed in an intermediate temperature, and kept well 

 shaded. In the following species, the flowers are yellow, 

 except where otherwise stated. 

 P, argentea (silvery). A synonym of P. dentata. 

 P. cordata (heart-shaped). A synonym of P. jnniperina lati- 



folia. 

 P. daphnoldes (Daphne-like). /. shortly pedicellate, in dense, 

 terminal, sessile beads ; standard nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx. June and July. (. cuneate-oblong, flat, glabrous, nearly 

 lin. long, ending in a pungent mucrone. h. 2ft. to 3ft. 1792. 

 (A. B. R. 98; B. M. 1394 ; L. B. C. 1143.) 

 P. d. obcordata (ohcordate). (. shorter and broader, more 

 truncate, with a more prominent point. (A. B. E. 574, under 

 name of P. ohcirdata.) 

 P. dentata (toothed). /!. in dense, terminal heads, sessile within 

 the last leaves ; calyx silky-villous, halt as long as the stan- 

 dard. June. (. linear, linear-oblong, or narrow-lanceolate, usually 

 narrow at both ends, Jin. to jin. long, darker-coloured or silvery 

 beneath, h. 2ft. 1820. SYN. P. an/entea. 

 P. eucbila (beautiful-lipped). Jl. axillary, on pedicels Jin. long; 

 petals half as long again as the calyx. May. I. linear-cuneate, 

 obtuse, iin. to Jin. long, flat or slightly concave, dark or silvery 

 beneath.' h. 1ft. 1824. Sy.n. Siiadostykx Siebcri. 

 P. flexllis (bending). /. solitary in the upper axils, shortly 

 peiliLfllate ; staiulard fully twice as long as the calyx. May. 

 (. linear or linear-oblong, often slightly cuneate, obtuse or mucro- 

 nate, Jin. to lin. long, flat or concave, darker-coloured beneath. 

 h. lift. 1801. (B. R. 1694.) 

 P. juniperina (Juniper-like). /. in the uppermost axils, usually 

 two or three together at the ends of the smaller branches, with 

 occa;^ionally luie or two leafless, stipular bracts ; standard fully 

 twice as long as the calyx. June. (. linear or lanceolate, spread- 

 ing, rigid and pungent-pointed, less than Jin. long, concave or 

 with involute margins, h. Uft. 1824. Plant prickly. 

 P. j, latifolia (br<iad-leaved). I. lanceolate, rounded or some- 

 times almost cordate at base, tapering into a rigiil, pungent point. 

 1832. SY.N. P. cuMata (B. M. 3443). 

 P. mucronata (pointed). A synonym of P. poli/olia. 

 P. obcordata (obcordate).* Jl in the upper axils, or forming 

 a short, terminal, leafy head; standard half as long again as 

 the pubescent calyx. April. (. opposite, in whorls of three or 



