116 PETANDRIA. MOXOGYNIA. 



tricose, lialf 5-cIeft, sej^ments ronnivent, acute. 

 Jintliers sessile, included. Style much exserted, 

 entire, acute. 



Leaves long-itudinally nerved; flowers in recurved, leafy 

 spikes. 



Species. 1. O. hispichim. 2. moUe. A genus peculiar to 

 the United States, but very nearly allied to Oiiosma Flow- 

 ers }ellowish-\\hite, somewhat like those oi Si/mphijtwn. 



175. LYCOPSIS. L, (Small Bugloss.) 



Calix 5-cleft, inflated or ventricose. Corolla 

 funnel-formed, tube incurved; orifice closed with 

 convex protubeiances. Stigma bifid. 



Flowers solitary or collected into a raceme or spike, ax- 

 illary or terminal. In some species the tube of tlie corolla 

 is strai.f.ht. 



Species. 1. /,. arvensis. ^.Tirginica. 



This g-enus exists cluefly in the South of Europe, in 

 Barbaiy, and in the East, there is also 1 species in Egypt, 

 1 in Crete, 1 in Chio, and another in Tartary. 



ire. ECHIUM. X. (Viper's Bugloss.) 



Calix 5-parted. I'uhe of the corolla short; 

 orifice naked: border wider than the tube, cani- 

 pannlate. unequal, and obliquely 5-l(jbed. Stig- 

 ma bifid. 



Flowers in simple or paniculated spikes, spikes unila- 

 teral. Mosi oiibe African species are bhrubby. 



Species- 1 E. I'ldgare. Very common in Virj^inia 

 where it is now but too generally naturalized, and there 

 called " Blue-weed" 



The srenus Echinm appeals to exist chiefly in the more 

 temperaie parts of Africa, particularly at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, in Barbar} , in the isle of Tenenffe, and m 

 Egypt; there are a few species also indigenous to the 

 South of Europe. According to Gu'clin the v\onien of the 

 Don (in Russia) colour their cheeks widi the root of the 

 Eclunm riibrnm. The same use is also made of the root of 

 0/ios77ia Echioldes by the v\ omen of I'artary. 



If Flouoers monojictaloiis, inferior^ fruit cover-ed. 

 177. PHACELIA. Jiissieu, 



Calix 5' parted. Corolla subcampanulate, 5- 

 clelt, with 5 longitudinal maigined melliferous 



