114 PENTANDRIA. MONOSYNIA. 



fice naked or partially closed; border orbicrj- 

 late, nearly flat, segments rounded. Seed indu- 

 rated, shining, (as in Lithospennum.) 



Flowers yellow or fulvous, axillary, almost fastigiate, in 

 short bracteate spikes; leaves narrow, without collateral 

 nerves. 



Species. 1. B. Gmelini. 2- canescens. Flowers fulvous. 

 3. *lo7ig>Jiora. Hirsutely viLous, erect; leaves approxi- 

 mating-, long and linear, margin reflected; flowers in a 

 fastigiate fascicle; tube of the corolla somewhat pentan« 

 gular, (often from 10 to 15 lines long) border flat, seg- 

 ments fimbriate-crenate. — Flowers sulphur yellow. In 

 open plains; around the Prairie du Chien, Missisippi, and 

 on the banks of the Missouri to its sources. 4!.*cleciimbens. 

 Hirsutely villous; stem decumbefit; st-gnients of the calix 

 and leaves linear; flowers scattered; lobes of the corolla 

 fimbriate-crenate, shorter than the tube — Around the 

 Mandan village. Nearly allied to the preceding. In both, 

 these species the orifice is partly closed by 5 arched pro- 

 tuberances. 



All the species of this genus aflTord a crimson lac from 

 the root. 



172. CYNOGLOSSUxM. L. (Hounds-tongue.) 



Calix S-parted. Corolla funnel-formed, 5- 

 lobed, orifice closed by 5 connirent convex pro- 

 cesses. Stigma emarginate. Seed depressed, af- 

 fixed to the style on the inner side. 



Flowers spiked or clustered, axillary or terminal; leaves 

 villous or hirsute; seeds echinate, muricate or scabrous, 

 ' rarely if ever smooth. 



Species. 1. C officinale. 2. sylvaticiim. 3. amphxi' 

 caitle. 4. pilosnmP Erect and hairy; radical leaves spathu- 

 late-oblong, the rest lanceolate-oblong, nbtuse; flowers ax- 

 illary, almost spiked, unilateral (or secund); stamina very 

 fchort included; seed scabrous depressed, oblong, acute, 

 muricate on the margin. — On arid hills above Ra])id river, 

 Missouri. Flowering in May; flowers while, small. 



Apparently a mere variety of the Peruvian plant; judg- 

 ing from the plate in the Flora Peruviana. 



Of the genus Cynoglossum there are 9 species, chiefly ia 

 the South of Europe, several of which are also common to 

 Barbary, besides these tliere are 4 at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 6 in Peru and Chili, 5 in Armenia and the East, i 



