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SEMPERvfRENS (Evergreeti Alkanet). 



8. ANCHUSA (Allcanet). 



1. A. sempervirens (Evergreen Alkanet). A stout 

 bristly plant, with deep green, egg-shaped leaves, and 

 short spikes of rather large, salver-shapedyfowers, which 

 are of an intense azure blue. It is not generally con- 

 sidered to be a native, but in Devonshire it is not an 

 uncommon hedge-plant. Fl. June August. Perennial. 



* A. officindlis (Common Alkanet) has purple, fun- 

 nel-shaped flowers, which grow in 1 -sided spikes, the 

 segments of the calyx being longer than the corolla. 

 It is frequent in gardens, from which it is supposed 

 to have escaped ; but it is not common in a wild state. 



