222 PULMONARIA. 



1. P. officina'liSi Linn. (Fig. 289), common Lungwort. Lower 

 leaves ovato cordate on footstalks, the upper ovate sessile. 



English Botany, t. 118, (excluding the root leaves which belong to 

 the next species.) English Flora, vol. i. p. 2o2. Hooker, British 

 Flora, vol. i. p. 99. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 164. 



Root fihrous. Stem eight to twelve inches high, angular, hairy, mixed 

 with rigid bristles, having a tuberculated base. Root leaves, and 

 those on the lower part of the stem ovate or ovato heart-shaped, on 

 broad foot-stalks, the upper ones ovate, or ovate lanceolate, sessile, all 

 hairy, and more or less hispid, the under side pale green, the upper 

 frequently marked with pale green spots. Flowers in small terminal 

 corymbs. Calyx campanulate, with five lanceolate segments, five 

 angles, and mostly five alternate ribs, hairy, or hispid. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, the tube about the length of the calyx, somewhat hairy 

 at the top, the limb blue or purple, of fine rounded lobes. Stamens 

 about the middle of the tube, sessile, or on very short filaments. 

 Style as long as the tube. Stigma obtuse, emarginate. Nuts four, 

 free. 



Habitat. Woods and Groves, rare; Durham, Bedfordshire, Hamp- 

 shire, Arniston woods near Edinburgh, and in waste places about 

 Glasgow. 



Perennial ; flowering in May. 



This plant, which is common in gardens, and is much more fre- 

 quently found indigenous on the continent than with us, 

 was. formerly highly esteemed in the cure of affections of the 

 chest, and was known by the name of Jerusalem cowslip, Jerusalem 

 sage, Pulmonaria maculata ; but what virtues it may possess is pro- 

 bably owing to the small quantity of nitre which it contains, in combi- 

 nation with a slight degree of astringency and mucilaginous taste; it is 

 now, however, entirely fallen into disuse. In the north of Europe it is 

 used as a pot herb, and, according to Ray, it was brought to table in 

 Scotland in his time. The flowers of this genus are as in the last pink, 

 changing, as they expand, to purple and blue. 



2. P. angusti'folia, Linn. (Fig. 290.) narrow-leaved Lungwort. 

 Leaves rough lanceolate, the lower on foot-stalks, the upper sessile. 



British Botany, t. 1628. English Flora, vol. i. p. 262. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 99. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 164. 



Root small fibrous. Stem from one and a half to two feet high, 

 rough, with hairs, simple or branched at the base, lower leaves 

 eliptical lanceolate, on long tapering fool stalks, the upper lanceolate, 

 sessile, sometimes decurrant, rough, with hairs and bristles, arising 

 from a callous tuberculated base, seldom spotted as in the above 

 species. Flowers in terminal racemes, on short declining foot-stalks. 

 Calyx broadly bell-shaped, with five deep lanceolate segments, 

 scarcely angulated or ribbed, hairy, becoming much larger after 



