222 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



and other mountain ranges, but not everywhere in Switzerland ; 

 Western Asia, N.W. India, N. Africa. A weed of cultivationjin 

 parts of Britain. 



LYCOPSIS L. 

 Lycopsis arvensis L. Small Bugloss. 



A coarse annual covered with small, stiff hairs. Stems branched, 

 i -I \ feet. Leaves lanceolate, sinuate and often toothed. Flowers in 

 terminal spikes (usually forked). Corolla pale blue, small, with the 

 tube curved in the middle. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Nuts wrinkled 

 as in Anchusa. 



Sandy fields and waste places from the plains to the lower 

 Swiss Alps (at 5000 feet near Zinal). June to August. 



Distribution. Europe, N. Asia, N. America and other parts 

 of the world where introduced by cultivation. British. 



PULMONARIA L. 



Perennial herbs with rather large blue or purple flowers. Calyx 

 tubular-campanulate, 5-cleft. Corolla with a straight tube, without 

 scales, and a spreading 5-lobed limb. Nuts smooth. 



A very small European genus. 



Pulmonaria angustifolia L. (P. azurea Bess.). 



Stems 6-12 inches high, erect, leafy. Leaves not spotted. Radi- 

 cal leaves lanceolate, 8-10 times as broad as long, lengthened into a 

 broadly- winged leaf-stalk ; stem-leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 sessile, the lower ones slightly attenuated at the base, the upper 

 ones amplexicaul. Leaves and calyx covered with short, spreading 

 and glandular hairs. Corolla reddish at first, and then a deep 

 azure-blue, flowers in short racemes. Calyx cylindrical, cleft to the 

 middle, teeth lanceolate-acute. Calyx pendent after flowering. 

 A very beautiful plant. 



Bushy Alpine places up to 6500 feet ; local. 



Distribution. Eastern, Central, and Western Alps ; Pyrenees, 

 Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor. 



Pulmonaria officinalis L. Lungwort. 



Stems 6-18 inches high, with alternate, mostly sessile leaves. 

 Root-leaves ovate-oblong on long footstalks, coarsely hairy and 

 often much spotted. Calyx very hairy, much increasing in length 

 after flowering, the lobes barely reaching the middle. Flowers in a 

 terminal-forked cyme. Limb of corolla broadly spreading, with 

 short lobes. Flowers dull rose-coloured, then blue-violet, though 

 sometimes remaining rose or white. 



Hedge-banks and woods in the plains and sub- Alps. April, May. 



Distribution. Central and Southern Europe to the Caucasus, 

 extending northward to Scandinavia ; rare in Britain. 



