68 PENTAND. MONOG. 



2. LITHOSPERMUM. 



1. L. officinale (common Gromwell), stem erect very much 

 branched, leaves broadly lanceolate acute nerved rough above 

 hairy benath, tube of the cor. as long as the cal., nuts smooth. 

 Lightf.p. 132. E.B. t. 134. 



HAB. Waste uncultivated places,, as near the Monastery of Beaulieu 

 at Inverness., and under the west side of Salisbury Craigs, and at 

 Roslin, Dr. Parsons. Old walls of Mugdoch Castle, Glasgow, Hopk. 

 Arniston woods, and woods at Culross, Eclinb., Maugh. Fl. June. 



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One to one foot and a half high. Fl. pale yellow. Nuts whitish brown, 

 highly polished,, seldom more than 2 or 3 ripening in each cat. 



2. L. arvense (Corn Cromwell), stem erect branched, leaves 

 lanceolate acute hairy, cal. a little shorter than the cor., its 

 segments patent when containing the ripe rugose nuts. 

 Light f. p. 133. E. B. t. 123. 



HAB. Corn-fields, not uncommon, Dr. Parsons. Occasionally about 

 Glasg. Fields about Bogles hole, frequent, Hopk. Fl. May, June. 



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Corolla, white. Cal. segments thrice as long as the fruit. 



3. L. maritimum (Sea-side Cromwell), glabrous, stem procum- 

 bent branched, leaves ovate obtuse fleshy glaucous. Lehm. 

 Asperif. p. 291. Pulmonaria mar it., Li^htf. p. 134. t. 1 . 

 E. B. t. 368. 



HAB. On the sea-coast, not uncommon among loose stones. Coast 



of Fife, near St. Andrews, Isle of Bute, Arran, &c., Light/. Most 



abundant on the shores of Sutherland, Caithness and Orkney. Fl. 



July, Aug. 11 . 

 In habit this plant is sui generis ; but in character it accords certainly 



better with Lithospermum than with Pulmonaria, where it has 

 . hitherto been placed. Lower leaves on footstalks and acute; upper 



ones sessile: all very minutely tubercled, though appearing smooth. 



.Flowers somewhat racemed, beautiful purplish blue: tube short. 

 - Cal. not prismatic. Nuts smooth. Whole plant glaucous, turning 



almost black in drying. 



3. ANCHUSA. 



1. A. sempervirens (evergreen AlkaneC]^ leaves ovate nearly en- 

 tire lower ones upon long footstalks, peduncles axillary, flowers 

 subcapitate accompanied by two leaves. Lightf. p. 133. 

 . B. t. 45. 



HAB. Glen of Dunglass, Dr. Parsons. Deanbank, near the village 

 of the water of Leith 3 Road-sides between Crossgates and Keltie, 

 Kinross-shire, Maugh. Banks of the Clyde above Hamilton j near 

 Chatelherault and Castlemilk, Glasg. Hopk. Craig-Millar Castle, 

 Mr. Arnott. Fl. May, June. I/ . 



The flowers are of a beautiful blue, and the shape of the corolla is, as 

 Sir James Smith observes, rather salver-shaped than infundibuli- 

 form, and thus with difficulty distinguished from Myosotis. Daily 



