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104. Roth tent. fl. germ. 2. p. 220. Vill. dauph. 2. p. 455. 

 Poll. pal. 1. p. 183, and of many other European Floras. 



Far. 7. incarnata ; flowers flesh-coloured, or red. I/ . H. 

 Roth. tent. fl. germ. 1. c. and some other Floras. A. incarnata 

 Schrad. in litt. 



I'ar. c. alba ; flowers white. T. H. Roth. 1. c. 



Officinal Bugloss. Fl. June, Oct. Britain. PL 1 to 2 feet. 



41 A. CAPE'LLII (Moris, clench, sard, ex Linnsea, 5. p. 93.) 

 plant procumbent, clothed with strigose hairs ; leaves lance- 

 olate, denticulated : radical ones undulated ; bracteas ovate- 

 lanceolate, half stem-clasping ; flowers loosely racemose ; calyx 

 5-cleft, when bearing the fruit inflated and nutant. 3. H. 

 Native of Sardinia. Allied to A. qfficinalis and A. angustifolia. 



Capellis Bugloss. PI. procumbent. 



42 A. CAPE'NSIS (Thumb, in Schrad. journ. 1806. p. 45. 

 prod. fl. cap. p. 34.) leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated at both 

 ends, somewhat hispid from villi ; racemes terminal, panicled ; 

 bracteas ovate-lanceolate ; calyxes 5-cleft, obtuse. $ . G. Na- 

 tive of the Cape of Good Hope. Andr. bot. rep. t. 336. Curt, 

 bot. mag. t. 1822. Lehm. asper. p. 249. Stems simple, hairy, 

 canescent. Corolla blue, twice as long as the calyx. 



Cape Bugloss. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1800. PI. 1J foot. 



43 A. LEUCOIIFOLIA (Lehm. asper. p. 249.) leaves linear- 

 subspatulate, bluntish, silky and hoary ; spikes solitary ; brac- 

 teas lanceolate, attenuated at the base ; calyxes 5-cleft, acute. 

 Ij. . H. Native of Armenia. Lithospermum Orientale leuco- 



ji folio, flore cceruleo parvo, Tourn. cor. p. 6. Stem downy, 

 hoary, leafy at bottom. Flowers sessile, crowded into terminal 

 spikes. Bracteas longer than the calyx. Corolla a little longer 

 than the calyx ; tube very short ; limb blue, with obovate- 

 rounded segments. 



Snow-drop- leaved Bugloss. PI. 1 foot. 



44 A. BRACTEOLA'TA (Viv. fl. libyc. p. 10. t. 4. f. 2 3.) 

 plant clothed with soft white hairs, which rise from obsolete 

 tubercles ; lower leaves spatulate : cauline ones linear-oblong, 

 sessile, obtuse : floral ones half stem-clasping, cordate, acute, 

 imbricated in two rows. If. . H. Native of Cyrenaica, on the 

 mountains. Lvcopsis Cyrenaica, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 557. 

 Stem ascending, dividing into spike-bearing branches at top. 

 Floral leaves or bracteas a little longer than the leaves. Flow- 

 ers disposed in dense, leafy, revolute spikes. Calyx hispid, 

 with linear-acute segments, equal in length to the tube of the 

 corolla. Corolla blue ; the throat and tube white. 



Bracteolate Bugloss. PL ascending. 



J" Species hardly known. 



45 A. LOKGIFOLIA (Lam. ill. no. 1817. diet. 1. p. 502.) leaves 

 long, tongue-shaped, broadest at the base and apex ; spikes 

 small, naked, somewhat panicled. 1. H. Native of Italy. 

 Stem simple ; hairs springing from white tubercles. Flowers 

 small, of a beautiful blue. 



Long-feared Bugloss. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1819. PL 1| 

 foot. 



46 A. AFRICA'XA (Burm. prod. fl. cap. p. 4.) stem shrubby, 

 villous ; leaves lanceolate, tomentose beneath, fj . G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. 



African Bugloss. Shrub. 



Cult. The species of Bugloss are of the most easy culture ; 

 they will grow in any soil, and are readily increased by seed. 

 A. Capensis should be treated as a green-house plant. Some 

 of the species are very pretty when in blossom, as A. panicu- 

 lata, A. Barrelieri, &c. 



XXVII. M\OSO"HS (from pvg fivoc, mys myos, a mouse; 

 and ovc wroc, out otos, an ear ; supposed resemblance in leaves.) 



1 



Dill. gen. 3. Lin. gen. no. 180. Schreb. gen. no. 240. Juss. 

 gen. p. 131. ed. Usteri, p. 146. Schkuhr, handb. U 29. Lehm. 

 asper. p. 78. Echioides, Moench. meth. p. 416. 



Lis. STST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 throat furnished with short processes ; limb 5-parted, obtuse. 

 Stamens inclosed. Nuts 4, 1 -celled, fixed to the bottom of the 

 calyx, perforated at the base. Annual or perennial, rough or 

 smoothish plants, with terminal racemes of blue flowers ; the 

 racemes revolute before expansion. 



1 . Nuts smooth, glabrous. 



1 M. LATIFOLIA (Poir. suppl. 4. p. 45. Lehm. asper. p. 82.) 

 stem erect, nearly simple, pilose ; leaves on long petioles, ovate- 

 lanceolate, pilose ; calyxes acute, villous ; corollas a little longer 

 than the calyx. If. . F. Native of the Canary Islands. This 

 species differs from the rest in the leaves being on long petioles, 

 2-3 inches long, and 1 \ inch broad. Corollas blue ? 



Broad-leaved Scorpion-grass. PL ? 



i M. GRANDIFLORA (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. S. p. 

 90. t. 199.) stems nearly simple; leaves strigose, obtuse: radi- 

 cal ones lanceolate, petiolate : cauline ones lanceolate-oblong, 

 sessile ; spikes terminal, solitary, or twin, leafy ; flowers pedi- 

 cellate ; calyx closed ; fruit glabrous. 1 . F. Native of 

 Quito. Stems terete, strigose. Corolla white, size of those of 

 Tiaridium I'ndicum ; processes of the throat roundish, downy. 

 Calycine segments linear, acutish. 



Great-flowered Scorpion-grass. PL \ to f foot. 



3 M. CORYMBOSA (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 5. no. 2.) stems 

 procumbent, divaricate ; leaves linear, acute ; flowers corym- 

 bose ; corollas 3 times longer than the calyx. . H. Native 

 of Chili, about Conception, in fields. Pers. ench. 1. p. 157. 

 Lehm. asper. p. 82. Plant hispid. Middle stem erect ; side 

 ones procumbent ; branches forked at top. Corymb forked, 

 sometimes spicate. Corolla white. 



Corym&o.se-flowered Scorpion-grass. PL procumbent. 



4 M. ROBD'STA (D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 101.) leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, sessile, pilose on both surfaces ; racemes 

 conjugate, short, bractless ; calycine segments oval, obtuse, 

 longer than the tube of the corolla. I/ . H. Native of Nipaul, 

 in Gosainsthan, where it is called Khurkurree by the natives. 

 Root fusiform. Stems ascending, simple, pilose. Leaves 3 

 inches long, and 5 inch broad. 



Robust Scorpion-grass. PL 1^ foot. 



5 M. LA'XA (Lehm. asper. p. 83.) stem filiform, loose : 

 leaves obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, nearly glabrous ; racemes 

 bractless, very long ; pedicels diverging while bearing the fruit, 

 very long, much longer than the calyx, which is spreading and 

 obtuse ; corollas small. 0. H. Native of North America. 

 Stem glabrous, divided at top into some racemiferous branches. 

 Calyx rather pilose, ventricose at the base ; teeth ovate- lanceo- 

 late, acute. 



Loose Scorpion Grass. PL 1 to 1 i foot. 



6 M. SPARSIFLORA (Mikan, in Hoppe. taschenb. 1807. p. 

 74. Pohl, fl. boh. 1. p. 175.) stem branched, diffuse; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, acutish ; racemes loose, few-flowered, leafy 

 at the base ; pedicels deflexed while bearing the fruit, longer 

 than the calyx, which is spreading, and beset with hooked bris- 

 tles at the base ; corollas small. 0. H. Native of Bohemia, 

 Silesia, Transylvania and Caucasus, in shady humid places ; 

 and of Altaia, at the river Kurtschum. Baumg. fl. trans. 

 1. p. 117. Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 174. Bess. fl. gal. 1. p. 

 143. Lehm. asper. p. 84. Led. fl. alt. 1. p. 186. M. sepium, 

 Hort. crac. Stem angular at top, scabrous from reflexed hairs . 

 Leaves strigose. Racemes axillary and terminal. Calyx glo- 

 bose at the base. Corollas small, blue, sometimes white ; throat 

 yellow. 



