Echium borraginea;. -207 



culis noralibus auguste liuearibus acutissiinis, spiculis peduiiciilalis 

 laxis indivisis, calycis albo-strigosi laciniis aiiji;uste linearibus paten- 

 tibus, corolhe cteruleae hirtie tubo calyct^ duplo longiore, staniinibus 

 exsertis.stylo bitido, nuculis acutisgrosse scrobiculato-tuberculatis 0. 

 E. tubercnlatum Link et HolTin. Fl. Port. — E. pirtum Jan. 



Hab. in campestribus insulu; Zacynthi (Margot). 



.\ffine E vulgari differt setis dimorphis, indumento -^trigoso, inllorfscentii 

 laxiore paniculato-pyramidata, calycis laciniis patentibus, corolla; tulio elun- 

 gato, etc. 



Ar. Geogr. Lusitania, Hispania, Gallia australis. Ifalia et ejus insul.'>^. Dal- 

 matia, .\igeria occidentalis ! 



7. E. sericeum (Vahl Symb. IL p. 35) perenne. pluricaule iiidu- 

 mento minuto adpresso canum pr;etereaque setis e tuberculo urtis 

 ScCpius adpressis crebrc ubsitum, caulibus basi interdum sutlVutes- 

 centibus dccumbentibus vel prostratis, Ibliis liiiearibus latiusculis vel 

 angustis margine ssepius subrevolutis et interdum subundulatis infe- 

 riorib'js in petiolum attenuatis, floralibus triangulari-lanceulatis caly- 

 cem subfpquantibus. spicis paniculatis patule albo-hispidis demuni 

 elongatis laxis, calycis laciniis liiiearibus obtusiusculis, corolla liirta 

 prtetereaque setis iongioribus obsita punicea sed post exsiccationeni 

 violacea calycc 2'/2-plo longiore, staminibus exserlis. stylo iiitido, 

 nuculis griseis acutis acute cristulato-tuberculatis ^ E. prostralum 

 Del. Eg. p. 193. tab. 17, tig. L — E. rubriini Forsk. Descr. p. 41. — 

 E. distac/ti/um Viv. Lib. ex cl. Gosson. 



Hab. in arenosis maritimis et desertorum ^gypti ad .\lexandriam et Roset- 

 tam (Forsk., Del., Auch. 2394!, Kral!, Gaill! etc.). in deserto inter .Egyptum 

 et Palestinam (Boiss!), Rhodi in maritimis (Bourg!), Gretae ad Gydoniam 

 (Heldr!), 



/3. diffusum. — Caules ut in forina typica diffusi sed sctfe totius 

 planl£e erecto-patentes ncc adpresse. — E. diffusum Fl. Grfcc. IL p. 

 69. tab. 18-2. 



Hab. in arenosis maritimis Grette (Sibth., Heldr! Raul!), Gypri ^Haussk!), 

 insuhe Naxos (Sart!), Gos (Urv!). 



-/. fii.spidum. - ~ Caules erecti proceriores siepe 1-2-pedales pr;e- 

 ter iiidiimentum cairum ut et folia patule hispidi. — E. hispidum 

 Fl. GrJBc. p. 68. tab. 181. — E. Sildhorpii R. et Sch. IV, p. -IQ. — 

 E. e/tgans Lehm. Asp. N° 339. — Jaub. et Sp. III. tab. ^H. — E. 

 setosilm Fl. Pelop. non Vahl. — E. expansum Boiss. ct llaussk. .Mss. 



Hab. in arnno.sis pra>serlim maritimis et alveis .\ttica3 (Sprun! Boiss! etc), 

 ad Gorinlhum et Sicyonem (Boiss!), Argolide (Sprun!\ Byzantii (Nofi .«"Ihios 

 fOrph!), Rhodus (Bourg!\ Gyprus (Kv!), Bithynia et Paphlagonia (Wi^d!), 

 Pamphylia (Heldrl). GiliciaTrachea (Peron), Svria littoralis omnis (Ky! Bl!), 

 Paleslina ad Gaza (Boiss!). Hirro.solymam (lioth !), Hebron (Ky!i, ad (iiaur 

 G61 prope Marasch Syriie Lor. (Haussk! forma ramis magis expansis). 



Species pulchra indumento cano . corollis versicoloribus, nuculi> ;icute 

 tuljyrculatis insignis, caulibus prostralis vel erectis brevibus vel proceris, 

 foliis plus minus angustis, setarum directione valde variabilis sed lormae 



