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blue, striped with 5 fine white veins. Nuts reticulately wrinkled, 

 girded by a tumid circle below. This plant was formerly recom- 

 mended as a remedy against the anthrax, or corrosive ulcer, 

 commonly called a carbuncle, by laying the bruised leaves on the 

 tumour ; but it is difficult to persuade oneself that such a plant 

 can have any efficacy in such a disease. 



Corn or Common Wild Bugloss. Fl. June, Sept. Britain. 

 PI. | to 1 foot. 



4 L. VIRGIXICA (Gron. virg. 140. Pursh, fl. 1. p. 133.) 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, crowded, soft, tomentose ; stem 

 erect. Q. H. Native from Pennsylvania to Virginia, in dry 

 woods. Plant small, very hispid. Lower leaves spatulate, en- 

 tire. Racemes solitary. Corollas small, white. 



Virginian Wild Bugloss. PI. small. 



Cult. The seeds of all the species only require to be sown in 

 the open border in spring. 



Tribe IV. 



BUGLO'SSEjE (/3ouyXbi<r<roc is the Greek name for Bugloss, 

 from /3oi>e, botis, an ox ; and y\<aaau, glossa, a tongue ; in refer- 

 ence to the roughness and shape of the leaves of most species.) 

 D. Don. in edinb. phil. journ. July, Oct. 1832. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, having the mouth closed with vaulted processes. Nuts 

 4, distinct, 1-celled. 



Sub-Tribe I. 



ANCHUSEvE. Nuts perforated at the base, fixed to the 

 bottom of the calyx. 



XXVI. ANCHLTSA (from u-y^ovaa, anchousa, paint for the 

 skin ; use of some species.) Lin. gen. no. 182. ed. Schreb. no. 

 212. Juss. gen. p. 131. Lam. ill. no. 257. t. 92. Schkuhr, 

 handb. 1. t. 29. Lehm. asper. p. 211. Buglossum Gaertn. 

 fruct. 1. no. 414. t. 67. f. 2. Tourn inst. t. 53. Lycopsis 

 species of authors. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-parted. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped ; throat closed by erect obtuse processes. 

 \uts4, 1-celled, turbinate, fixed to the bottom of the calyx, per- 

 forated and concave at the base. Rough plants, usually with 

 terminal flowers. 



1. Calyx 5-parted, erect in the fruit-bearing state. Corollas 

 unequal in most of the species. 



1 A. LINIFOLIA (Willd. herb, ex Lehm. asper. p. 215.) stems 

 decumbent, stoloniferous ; leaves opposite, sessile, linear-lance- 

 olate, acute, entire, nearly glabrous, ciliated at top ; flowers axil- 

 lary, solitary, equal. 1(..F. Native of South America. A. 

 leucantha, Willd. herb. 1. c. A. lanceolata, Willd. herb. no. 

 3316. Root creeping. Calyx pilose. Corolla glabrous, pale 

 yellow : tube length of calyx : throat closed by 5 very hairy 

 tubercles ; segments roundish, obovate. 



Flax-leaved Bugloss. PI. ^ foot. 



2 A. OPPOSITIFOLIA (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 91. 

 t. 200.) stems procumbent, creeping, branched ; leaves opposite, 

 linear, quite entire, ciliated with strigae on the back and margins ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary, on short pedicels. TJ. . F. Native of 

 the Andes, of Quindiu near Teindala ; and Jaquanquer, between 

 the town of Pasto and Tulcan. Herb tufted, strigose. Leaves 

 subconnate at the base, acute, 9-10 lines long, and one broad. 

 Calyx hispid, with lanceolate, equal segments. Corolls white, 

 about the size of those of M. palustris. Nuts strigose, glabrous. 



Opposite-leaved Bugloss. PI. procumbent. 



3 A. PYGM.E'A (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 3. p. 92.) plant 

 tufted, creeping, leafy ; leaves scattered, sessile, linear, quite 



entire, hispid from strigae ; flowers axillary, solitary, sessile. 

 T; . F. Native of Quito, on the top of Mount Antisana, at the 

 altitude of 2104 hexapods. Leaves imbricate at the base, acutish, 

 4 lines long. Calyx beset with adpressed pili ; with linear-lance- 

 olate, acute, nearly equal segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 white, glabrous, size of those of Myosbtis arcensis. Nuts 

 wrinkled, glabrous. 



Pygmy Bugloss. PI. tufted, creeping. 



4 A. CRUCIA'TA (Cham, in Linnsea. 4. p. 438.) shrubby, stri- 

 gosely pilose, canescent at top, much branched ; branches as- 

 cending ; leaves linear-lanceolate, connate at the base, and are, 

 as well as the axillary branchlets, strictly opposite ; cymes scor- 

 pioid, panicled at top, furnished with bracteas which are hardly 

 longer than the calyxes. fj.F. Native of the South of Brasil. 

 Calyx very hairy, with lanceolate, unequal segments. Corolla 

 hairy outside, with a short tube ; processes of the throat fringed. 

 Stigma emarginate. 



Cross-leaved Bugloss. Shrub 1 to 1 foot. 



5 A. STOSCHADIFOLIA (Cham, in Linnaea, 4. p. 439.) nearly 

 allied to A. crucidta, and in like manner has opposite leaves, 

 but differs from it in the cymes being solitary and terminal, in 

 the flowers being larger, in the leaves being linear, with revo- 

 lute margins, hoary, and in habit, fj . F. Native of the South 

 of Brasil. Habit of Gnaphalium Stce'chas. or Latandula ; of a 

 hoary aspect. Bracteas longer than the pedicels. Corolla 

 having the tube shorter than the calyx, and the limb blue, vil- 

 lous outside ; processes of the throat fleshy, papillose. Stigma 

 subcapitate. 



Stcechas-leaved Bugloss. SLrub 1 to 1-|- foot. 



6 A. TETRA'QUETRA (Cham, in Linnaea, 8. p. 113.) glabrous : 

 tops and inflorescence hairy ; stems simple, erect, tetraquetrous ; 

 leaves lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, mucronate : radical 

 ones on long petioles : cauline ones opposite, partly connate 

 at the base, all strigose ; cymes on long peduncles, com- 

 posed of short spikes : terminal ones twice bifid : axillary 

 ones bifid ; flowers sessile, bracteate ; nuts smooth, solitary by 

 abortion ; calyx 5-toothed. y. . F. Native of Brasil, Sello. 

 Stems height of the radical leaves. Teeth of calyx acute. 

 Corolla pilose outside ; processes of the throat small, fringed. 

 Nuts smooth, a little smaller than the calyx. 



/V>r-'rferf-stemmed Bugloss. PI. 1-J to 2 feet. 



7 A. SELLOWIA'NA (Cham, in Linnaea, 8. p. 115.) plant scab- 

 rous, from strigae ; stems erect and decumbent, glabrous, acute- 

 angled at the base ; leaves scattered, mucronate : superior ones 

 ovate, half stem-clasping : lower ones obovate-lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into marginate half stem-clasping petioles ; spikes twin, 

 terminal and axillary, on peduncles which are equal in length to 

 the leaves ; bracteas broad, cordate, ovate, acute, exceeding the 

 flowers a little ; nuts granular, glabrous, solitary by abortion ; 

 covered by the 5-cleft calyx. "If. F. Native of Brasil, Sello. 

 Corolla clothed with silky pili outside ; processes of the throat 

 small, villous. Stigma deeply emarginate. 



Sello' s Bugloss. PI. U foot. 



8 A. CJESPITOSA (Lam. diet. 1. p. 504. ill. no. 1818.) stems 

 decumbent ; leaves linear, obtuse, hispid from pili, undulated, 

 longer than the stems ; racemes terminal, few-flowered ; flowers 

 equal, y.. H. Native of Candia, on the Spaciotic mountains. 

 Willd. spec. 1. p. 759. Sibth et Smith, fl. graec. t. 169. 

 Buglossum Creticum humifusum acaulon perenne, echii folio 

 angustissimo Tourn. cor. p. 6. Roots woody, dark brown. Stems 

 simple, short, tufted. Flowers 2-4 terminal, large for the size 

 of the plant. Corolla with a white tube, which is nearly twice as 

 long as the calyx, and a deep blue limb : the processes in the 

 throat pencil-formed and white. 



Tufted Bugloss. PI. decumbent and tufted. 



9 A. HISPIDA (Forsk. descr. p. 40. Vahl. symb. fasc. 2. p. 

 xx 2 



