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side, endina in a compressed, short beak. The root is used as a 

 material for dyeing blue, and is imported from Gosainsthan ; 

 probably also from Thibet as a drug, under the native name 

 Maharunga, meaning in Sanscrit a strong, intense colour. 

 Emodi Onosma. Fl. Aug. Dec. PI. 1 to S feet. 



26 O. VESTITUM (Wall. cat. no. 937.) stems simple, erect, 

 densely clothed with spreading, yellowish hair ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, acute, clothed with soft, silky pili : radical ones crowded ; 

 racemes terminal, and from the axils of the upper leaves, sub- 

 corymbose ; pedicels as long as the flowers, and are, as well as 

 the calyxes, densely clothed with pili ; corolla swollen, with a 

 contracted, 5-toothed mouth, twice as long as the calyx; anthers 

 inclosed, y.. H. Native of Nipaul, in Gosainsthan. Stems 

 manj", from the same root. Calycine segments linear-lanceolate. 

 Corolla apparently purple, with reflexed teeth. 



Clothed Onosma. PI. 1| foot. 



27 O. HI spint'M (Wall. cat. no. 938.) hispid from long strigose 

 pili ; leaves long-lanceolate, bluntish, sessile : upper ones elliptic 

 or ovate-lanceolate ; racemes terminal, and from the axils of 

 the upper leaves ; corolla twice as long as the calyx, tubular, 

 widened towards the top. 1|. H. Native of Kamaon. Stems 

 simple, many from the same root. Calyx, pedicels, and bracteas 

 very hispid. Calycine segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla yel- 

 low or purplish ?. Style exserted. 



Hispid Onosma. PI. 1-J to 2 feet. 



28 O. BI'COLOR (Wall. cat. no. 939.) hispid from white, stri- 

 gose pili ; stem branched at top ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 tapering to both ends : radical ones subspatulate, 3-nerved ; 

 racemes terminal, solitary, or twin ; bracteas and calycine seg- 

 ments ovate-acuminated; flowers nearly sessile : corolla swollen, 

 contracted at the mouth, half as long as the calyx ? two-colour- 

 ed. C- H. Native of the East Indies. Radical leaves rosu- 

 late. 



Ttro- colour ed-&o\*ered Onosma. PI. 1 foot. 



Cult. All the species of this genus are extremely handsome 

 when in blossom. Most of them being natives of rocks or sandy 

 deserts, they answer well to be grown on rockwork, or on wall 

 tops, in which situations the seeds should be sown, where 

 the species will afterwards maintain themselves if allowed to 

 scatter their seeds. In common they are short-lived and apt to 

 rot. They do, however, very well in pots, among other alpine 

 plants ; and cuttings of them may be rooted under a hand-glass. 



XI. ONOSMO'DIUM (so called from its similarity to 

 Onosma} Michx. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 132. Pursh. fl. amer. 

 sept. 1. p. 132. Purshia, Lehm. asp. p. 4-. and p. 382. Lithos- 

 permum species of authors. 



Lix. SYST. Pentdndria, Jfonogynia. Calyx 5-parted. Co- 

 rolla tubularly campanulate, with a naked throat ; limb ventri- 

 cose ; segments conniving. Stamens inclosed ; anthers sagit- 

 tate, distinct. Style exserted. Nuts 4, 1 -celled, turgid, shin- 

 ing, fixed to the bottom of the calyx, imperforated at the base. 

 Hispid, herbaceous plants, with terminal, drooping racemes, 

 of white or cream-coloured flowers. 



1 O. HI'SPIDCM (Michx. fl. amer. bor. 1. p. 133.) hispid; 

 leaves obovate- lanceolate, acute ; segments of corolla subulate, 

 acute. I/. H. Native from New York to Carolina, on dry 

 limestone rocks. Pursh, fl. 1. p. 152. Lithospermum Virgi- 

 nicum, Lin. spec. p. 190. Willd. spec. 1. p. 752. Lam. ill. p. 

 397. no. 1783. Mill. diet. no. 2. Purshia hispida, Lehm. 

 asper. p. 382. Mor. hist. 3. p. 447- sect. 1 1. 1. 28. f. 3. Leaves 

 dotted from papillae. Racemes short, revolute. Flowers yel- 

 lowish-white, similar to those of Symphytum. 



Hispid Onosmodium. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1759. PI. 1 

 foot 



2 O. MOLLE (Michx. 1. c. t. 15. Pursh, J. c.) plant clothed 

 with white villi ; leaves oblong-ovate, somewhat triple-nerved ; 

 segments of corolla suboval, obtuse. I/ . H. Native of the 

 western counties, from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. Lithosper- 

 mum Carolinianum, Lam. ill. 1. p. 397. Purshia mollis, Lehm. 

 asp. 383. Lithospermum molle, Muhl. cat. pi. amer. p. 19. 

 Leaves approximate, acutish. Racemes short, terminal, nod- 

 ding. Calycine segments acute. Corollas white. 



Soft Onosmodium. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1812. PI. 1 foot. 



3 O. SCA'BRCM (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 57.) leaves 

 elliptic, somewhat triple-nerved, scabrous, obtuse ; hairs ad- 

 pressed, somewhat tubercular at the base; segments of corolla 

 acuminately subulate, acute. y..H. Native of Virginia ?: and on 

 hills in the prairies of the Red River, and on the uplands of the 

 Arkansas, frequent. Flowers axillary at the tops of the stems, 

 on short pedicels. Calycine segments linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 one-half shorter than the corolla. Corollas testaceous in the 

 dried state, smaller than those of O. hispidum. 



Scabrous Onosmodium. PI. 1 foot. 



4 O. STEioost M ; stem nearly simple, erect ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, 3-nerved, hispid from strigae ; corolla tubtdarly clavaze, 

 clothed with strigose down : lobes acute. I/ . F. Native of 

 Mexico, in meadows near Pascuaro. Onosma strigosum, H. B. 

 et Kuntb, nov. gen. 3. p. 93. Stem very hispid. Leaves acute, 

 2 inches long, and f an inch broad. Racemes terminal, twin, 

 leafy, nearly 2 inches long. Calyx hispid, with lanceolate, linear, 

 acuminated segments. Corolla white, a little longer than die 

 calyx. Very nearly allied to Onosmodium nolle. 



Strigose Onosmodium. PI. 1 foot. 



Cult. See Onosma p. 316, for culture and propagation. 



XII. PULMONA'RIA (so named from its being supposed 

 to be a good remedy in disorders of the lungs (pulmones) ; or, 

 according to some, from the spots on the leaves resembling those 

 on some diseased lungs.) Tourn. inst. t. 55. Lin. gen. no. 184. 

 Juss. gen. p. 130. Schreb. gen. no. 244. Lehm. asper. p. 3. 

 275 Cerinthoides, Boarb. 



LIJJ. SYST. Pentandria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-cleft, prisma- 

 tically pentagonal, but campanulate while in fruit. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, with a pervious pilose throat. Nuts 4, 1 -celled, 

 turbinate, fixed to the bottom of the calyx, imperforated at the 

 base. Herbaceous plants with spotted leaves, and terminal 

 corymbose racemes of flowers. Radical leaves petiolate; cauline 

 ones sessile. 



1 P. OFFICINA'LIS (Lin. spec. 194.) calyx length of the tube 

 of the corolla; leaves scabrous; radical ones ovate-cordate, 

 cauline ones ovate-oblong, sessile. If.. H. Native throughout 

 Europe and Caucasus, in shady woods. Found by Mr. Goody er 

 in a wood by Holbury-House, in the New Forest, Hampshire ; 

 and in Flintshire, on the ruins of the monastery of Maes Glas. 

 Smith eng. hot. t. 118. Oed. fl. dan. t. 482. Drev. et Hayne, 

 t. 14. Plenck. off. t. 73. Woody, med. bot. 2. t. 212. Svensk, 

 bot. 3. t. 135. Black w. t. 376. Sabb. hort. 2. t. 26. Ludw. 

 ect. t. 45. P. altera, Matth. 1040. Cam. epit. t. 784. P. ma- 

 culosa, Lob. obs. 317 icon. 586. P. latifblia maculata, Park, 

 par. 251. Mor. hist. 3. sect. 11. t. 29. f. 8. P. Italorum ad 

 Buglossum accedens, Tourn. inst. p. 136. Root thick, black. 

 Leaves spotted with white, scabrous from strigee. Flowers ter- 

 minal. Calyx hairy, brownish-green, with lanceolate acute seg- 

 ments. Corollas red before expansion, then violaceous. The 

 leaves, which are the part recommended in medicine, have no 

 peculiar smell ; but in their recent state manifest a slightly 

 astringent and mucilaginous taste ; hence they are supposed to 

 be demulcent and pectoral, and have been used in hemoptoes, 

 tickling coughs, and catarrhal defluxions upon the lungs. The 

 name of Pulmonaria seems, however, to have arisen rather from 



