BORAGINE.E. XV. LITHOSPERMUJI. 



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Moench. meth. p. 418. Habit of L. arrente, but much smaller. 

 Stem downy, scabrous. Leaves 1 to H inch long: floral ones 

 length of calyxes. Flowers on short pedicels, secund, disposed 

 in terminal, leafy racemes. Calycine segments ciliated. Corolla 

 downy outside, inflated at the base, and constricted in the mid- 

 dle, white, suffused with red ? Nuts brown, incurved, tubercled. 

 Thm-jlonered Cromwell. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1796. PI. 

 | to 1 foot. 



35 L. TESE'LLUM (Nutt. in amer. phil. trans, n. s. 5. p. 188.) 

 leaves linear, acute, strigose ; flowers remote, pedicellate ; calyx 

 foliaceous, with unequal segments ; nuts glabrous, convex. 0. 

 H. Native of North America, in arid places in the prairies of 

 the Red River. Stem about a span high, clothed with adpressed 

 whitish strigae. Flowers scattered, small, white. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped. Nuts 4, convex outside, connivent, and rather pilose 

 and angular. Perhaps this plant is not precisely a Lilhosper- 

 mum ; bearing, indeed, some affinity to Cynoglossum, and by no 

 means according with the usual character of the fruit of this 

 genus. 



Slender Cromwell. PI. \ to 1 foot. 



2. Planers blue or purple. 



36 L. TIXCTORIUM (Lin. spec. ed. 1st. p. 132. mat. mecl. p. 

 58.) stems herbaceous, procumbent; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, 

 pilosely hispid : floral ones subcordate ; calyxes hairy, a little 

 shorter than the tube of the corolla; nuts tubercled. %.. H. 

 Native of Spain; south of France; Italy, and Hungary, in 

 sandy, sterile places ; and in deserts about Alexandria. D. C. 

 syn. fl. fr. no. 2716. Andr. bot. rep. t. 576. Regnau, bot. 1. 

 t. 34. Lehm. asper. p. 330. Anchusa tinctoria, Horn. hort. 

 hafn. 1. p. 176. Willd. enum. 1. p. 178. exclusive of the syno- 

 nyines. Lapeyr. abr. p. 86. L. tuberculata, Forsk. descr. p. 

 41. L. procumbens, seminibus rugosis, Sauv. monsp. p. 63. 

 Anchusa puniceis floribus, Bauh. pin. p. 255. Anchusa mon- 

 speliaca, Bauh. hist. 3. p. 584. Root rather woody, twisted, of 

 many branches, tinges paper of a violet colour. Stems many, 

 dividing into 2 branches at top, hispid, as well as the leaves. 

 Upper leaves half s-tem-clasping ; lower ones petiolate, subspa- 

 tulate-lanceolate. Flowers sessile, disposed in simple or conju- 

 gate, terminal, leafy spikes. Corolla fine blue, with a white 

 throat. Anthers sessile, in the middle of the tube. 



Dyer's Cromwell, or Bugloss. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1596. 

 PI. procumbent. 



37 L. DISPE'RHCJC (Lin. spec. 191. dec. 1. t. 7.) stem 

 herbaceous, erect, branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 pilose ; calyx beset with spreading hairs : segments linear, 

 spreading, but incurved in the fructiferous state ; nuts co- 

 vered with callous dots. Q. H. Native of Siberia, at the Volga; 

 in Taiiria, and of Caucasus : also of Thessaly. on Mount Ossa. 

 Willd. spec. 1. p. 755. Smith, prod. fl. graec. 1. p. 115. Bieb. 

 fl. taur. 1. p. 122. Pers. ench. 1. p. 158. L. incurvum, Pers. 

 1. c. L. retortum, Pall. itin. 3. append, no. 722. t. L. 1. f. 2. 

 Lam. diet. 3. p. 30. Willd. spec. 1. p. 755. Messerschrnidtia 

 cancellata, Asso, synop. fl. arrag. no. 162. t. 1. f. 7. Willd. 

 spec. 1. p. 790. Quer. hisp. 4." p. 145. t. 25. Root simple, 

 perpendicular. Plant pilose. Stem canescent. Lower leaves 

 petiolate, spatulate : upper ones sessile, lanceolate. Flowers 

 secund, on short pedicels, disposed in leafy terminal racemes. 

 Corolla pale purple. Tube of corolla a little longer than the 

 calyx, pale ; limb blue. Nuts usually 2, rarely solitary, or 3, 

 ovate-trigonal. 



Tiro-seeded Cromwell. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1799. PI. 1 

 foot. 



38 L. IXCA'NCM (Forst. prod. p. 12. no. 63.) stem shrubby, 



decumbent ; leaves linear-lanceolate, clothed with silky pili, 

 canescent ; calyxes unequal, shorter than the tube of the co- 

 rolla ; nuts rough, f? . G. Native of the island of Teautea, 

 and Savage Island. Plant silky and canescent. Stem and 

 branches pilose. Leaves an inch long. Spikes terminal, pe- 

 dunculate, compound, \ to 1 inch long, coarctate, bracteate, 

 secund, pilose ; flowers on very short pedicels. Corolla pilose 

 outside, colour unknown. Nuts ovate. 

 Hoary Cromwell. Shrub \ to 1 foot. 



39 L. HISPIDVLBM (Smith, prod. fl. graec. 1. p. 114. fl. graec. 

 t. 1 62.) stem shrubby, depressed, diffuse ; leaves obovate, ob- 

 tuse, hispid ; tube of corolla inflated above, twice as long as the 

 calyx ; nuts tubercled, scabrous. 1} . F. Native of Rhode 

 Island. Stems tufted ; branches hoary and silky. Leaves 

 generally ^ an inch, scabrous. Flowers axillary at the tops of 

 the branches, twice as long as the leaves, blue. Corolla gla- 

 brous. Stigma obtuse. Nuts ovate. 



Hispid Cromwell. Shrub diffuse, tufted. 



40 L. VILLOSUM (Wall. cat. no. 941.) plant clothed with long 

 white hairs all over, which rise from white warts, most con- 

 spicuous on the bracteas and calyxes ; leaves narrow-lanceolate : 

 the radical ones crowded ; racemes terminal, and from the axils 

 of the upper leaves, bracteate, very hairy. If. . F. Native of 

 the Carnatic, near Hurdwar and Dorhora. Anchusa polygama, 

 Ham. herb. Plant tufted ; stems many from the same root. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, with a long tube. Nuts rugose ? 



I'illmu Cromwell. PI. 1 foot ? 



41 L. FLEXUOSCM (Lehm. asper. p. 333.) stem shrubby, 

 decumbent, flexuous ; leaves ovate, scabrous above, hispid be- 

 neath ; calyxes length of the tube of the corolla, spreading and 

 incurved in the fructiferous state ; nuts callously muricated. I; . 

 G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cynoglossum murica- 

 tum, Thunb- in Schrad. journ. 1806. p. 49. prod. p. 34. Willd. 

 spec. 1. p. 762. Stem branched, hispid. Flowers on short 

 ]>edicels, disposed in terminal, leafy racemes ; bracteas lanceo- 

 late. Calyx, hispid. Corolla blue. Anthers in the middle of 

 the tube, beneath the throat. Nuts 2, ovate, triangular. 



Muricated Gromwell. Shrub decumbent. 



42 L.OLEIFOLICM (Lapeyr. abr. suppl. p. 28.) shrubby, diffuse; 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, green above, shining, and beset with short 

 adpressed hairs, but silky and silvery beneath ; branches hoary. 

 ^ . F. Native of the Eastern Pyrenees, among ro^ks on the 

 banks of the river Caumella, below St. Aniol. Lower leaves op- 

 posite, 1 1 inch long, and g inch broad. Flowers axillary. Caly- 

 cine segments clothed with silky down, obtuse. Corolla thrice 

 as long as the calyx, blue ; tube downy. Nuts 2, downy, cine- 

 reous, trichotomous, somewhat rostrate, glabrous. 



Olite-leated Gromwell. Shrub J to 1 foot. 



t Species not sufficiently knorrn. 



43 L. DIFFD SUM (Lag. gen. et spec. nov. diagn. p. 10.) stem 

 suffruticose, diffuse ; leaves substrigose, linear, broadest at the 

 base, with revolute edges ; corolla 3 times longer than the calyx. 



F; . F. Native of Spain, among bushes near Arvas, Pajares, and 

 elsewhere. 



Diffuse Gromwell. Shrub diffuse. 



44 L. jEcYPTiACCM (Mikan ex Scbrank, obs. bot. in act. acad. 

 reg. sc. mon. 1813. 14. p. 73. 



Egyptian Gromwell. PI. ? 



Cult. For the culture and propagation of the perennial, her- 

 baceous species, see Borago, p. 309 ; for those of the annual 

 species, see Anchusa, p. 343 ; and for those of the shrubby- 

 kinds, see Onosma, p. 317. 



XVI. BATSCHIA (named by Michaux after G. J. G. 



