VIPER'S BUGLOSS 



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The flowers are visited by the honey bee, Diptera and Hymenop- 

 tera, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera. In addition to the large complete 

 flowers there are smaller ones. 



The nutlets are dispersed, after the carpels have split up into 

 four, just round the parent plant, and so help to form clumps. 



VIPER'S BUGLOSS (Echium vulga 



Viper's Bugloss is a lime-loving plant and grows largely on lime 

 soil, or is a sand plant and found on sand soil. 



One stage of a fungus, Puccinia rubigo-vera, grows on Viper's 

 Bugloss. It is much frequented by beetles, such as Meligethes incanus, 

 M. serripes, M. murinus, M. exilis, Longitarsus anchttsec, /.. nashirtn* 

 L. e.rotetns, Coccinella nintabilis, Ccntoryuchns cchii\ by several Lepi- 

 doptera, Odontia dentalis, Anescychia bipnnctcl/a, Depressaria rotnn- 



