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tPulmonaria officinalis. In similar places with the last species, but 

 far more rare, if, indeed, it be distinct therefrom ; nor does it seem to 

 have been gathered in the subjoined localities subsequently to the 

 date of its first discovery in that station, and which itself rests on 

 very uncertain authority. Common in Exbury Wood ; Mr. Rudge 

 in Bot. Guide : but there are strong grounds for suspecting that P. 

 angustifolia was the plant intended both in this and the remaining 

 stations quoted in that work,* and 1 believe Mr. Borrer has searched 

 at Exbury in vain for specimens. The figure in E. B., t. 118, depicts 

 a form of P. angustifolia very frequent in the county, with broad, 

 ovate, upper stem-leaves ; that given in tab. 1628 of the same work as 

 the true angustifolia, is likewise a very common form here, as are also 

 figs. 2 and 3 of Gerard's Em., the latter representing the extreme 

 narrow-leaved state of the plant, such as I have often gathered in this 

 island, and to which my examples with white flowers likewise belong. 

 That there is a Pulmonaria found in various parts of Europe, and 

 very common in English gardens, if not wild in some counties, having 

 the root-leaves broadly cordate-ovate, and which is the P. officinalis 

 of Linnaeus and others, cannot be doubted ; but excepting in the 

 greater breadth of the lower leaves I do not know in what it differs 

 from P. angustifolia, which last, in some of its broader forms, ap- 

 proaches the other pretty closely. I confess, however, to having 

 never seen a complete amalgamation of both species by an unbroken 

 series of connecting links, or such examples as there would be any 

 difficulty in referring to one or the other ; and since the geographical 

 distribution of the two plants is not quite the same, and the continen- 

 tal botanists, who enjoy better opportunities of studying them in a 

 native state than we do, are generally agreed in keeping them distinct, 

 it is perhaps advisable still so to consider them in the absence of po- 

 sitive evidence to the contrary. 



Lithospermum officinale. In woods, copses, on bushy banks and 

 in dry stony or waste places, corn-fields, &c, but not very common, 

 at least in the Isle of Wight. In Quarr Copse, by Binstead, in the 

 pits or hollows (old stone workings), not unfrequent. At Nettlestone 



*That of a wood by Holbury House, in the New Forest, given as if on the au- 

 thority of Ray, is in fact clue to John Goodyer in Gerard Em., and from reference to 

 the figure, is plainly P. angustifolia. Merrett's station of Kinswood, or rather Kings- 

 wood, by Mr. Loggins (Pinax, p. 99), though referring to Gerard's figure of P. offici- 

 nalis (Herball, p. 808, p. maculosa), is in all likelihood our angustifolia, as these 

 plants were then not properly distinguished, and Merrett, who was himself scarcely 

 more than a compiler, does not appear to have seen specimens. 



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