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pollen from another similar flower, and found it was then sterile. When 

 he pollinated it with pollen from a flower of the other type it was fertile. 



Darwin found that when it is self-pollinated a few seeds are pro- 

 duced. 1 It is usually thus sterile to its own pollen, probably owing to 

 abundance of insect visitors. When pollen from another similar flower 

 of the same form reaches its stigma it is also sterile. The nutlets 

 are dispersed around the parent plant when ripe. 



This plant is a humus- and clay-loving plant requiring both humus 

 and clay. A moth, Anescychia f>usiclla> feeds upon it. 



Pultnonarid) Gesner, is from the Latin pitljiw, lung, in allusion to 

 its reputed curative properties, and the second Latin name refers to 

 the same usage. 



Lungwort is called Adam-and-Eve, Bedlam Cowslip, Beggar's 

 Basket, Bottle-of-all-sorts, Bugloss Cowslip, Children of Israel, Spotted 

 Comfrey, Cowslip, Jerusalem Cowslip, Virgin Mary, Cowslip of Bedlem 

 or Jerusalem, Crayfery, Gooseberry Fool, Honeysuckle, Virgin Mary's 

 Honeysuckle, Joseph and Mary, Lady's Milksile, Our Lady's Milk- 

 wort, Lady's Pincushion, Lungwort, Mary's Tears, Sage of Bethlehem, 

 Sage of Jerusalem, Soldiers -and -Sailors, Spotted Mary, Spotted 

 Virgin, Virgin Mary's Milk-drops. 



The names Adam-and-Eve, Soldiers- and -Sailors are bestowed 

 because of the versicolorous flowers. As to the name Virgin Mary's 

 Milk-drops there was a tradition that the spots were caused by drops 

 of the Blessed Virgin Mary's milk. An old woman was weeding in a 

 garden when plants of this species were proposed to be turned out, 

 whereupon she said, "Do 'ee know, sir, what they white spots be?" 

 " Xo, I do not." "Why, they be the Virgin Mary's Milk, so don't 'ee 

 turn 'em out for it would be very unlucky." It was also said that from 

 weeping, one eye which was blue became red, in allusion to the colour 

 of the flowers. Bottle-of-all-sorts and Joseph and Mary refer also to 

 the two colours. Cowslip Bugloss alludes to the resemblance to those 

 flowers. Lady's Milk Sile (or soil or stain) refers to the spotted leaves, 

 as also does Lady's Pincushion. 



The plant was called Lungwort because the spotting of the leaves, 

 by the Doctrine of Signatures, suggested that the plant was good 

 for lung disease. The plant has long been grown in gardens in a more 

 or less sandy soil. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



2 i 5. Pnhnonaria officinalis, L. Stem erect, leaves rough, spotted, 



1 I'b is happens more usually in the case of the short -styled form, when half the seed produced by 

 legitimate pollination is formed. 



