Pulinonaria.] PENTANDRIA — MONOGYNfA. 87 



hairs.) — Naf. Ord. Droserace^, De Cand. — Name derived 

 from b^osuc, dew. The glands exude a pellucid fluid, which 

 makes this plant appear as if it were covered with dew. In 

 Latin it is called Hos-solis, the same as the English Sun-dew. 



ORD. VII. POLYGYNIA. 31anT/ Styles. 



101. IMyosurus. Cal. of 5 leaves, prolonged at the base. 

 Pet. 5, their c/aM'5 tubular (nectariferous). Pericarps numerous, 

 indehiscent, 1-seeded, collected upon a very long columnar re- 

 ceptacle. — Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEiE, Jtiss — Name, /xu;, /xuoc, 

 a mouse, and on^a, a tail ; from the elongated receptacle of the 

 germens or seed-vessels. 



("See Ranunculus Ficaria in Cl. XIII.) 



PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. 



1. EcHiUM. Linn. Viper's Bugloss. 



1. E. vulgdre, L. (^common Vipers Bugloss); stem herbaceous 

 simple hispid with tubercles, leaves linear-lanceolate hispid, 

 flowers in lateral short spikes, stamens longer than the corolla. 



E. Bot. t. 181. — Var. flowers white E. Jtalicum, Sm. E. Bot. 



t. 2081. {not L.) 



On old walls, fields, and waste grounds, especially in a sandy or gra- 

 velly soil : common on the Surrey hills, with pale tl. Fl. June, July. ^ . 

 — 2 — 3 f. high. Foot-leaves spreading, petioled. Spikes oi flowers la- 

 teral, secund, recurved, forming in fact one long compound spike or ra- 

 ceme. Corolla very beautiful, at first reddish-purple, then brilliant blue, 

 sometimes white. Echium Italicum is not now considered a British plant. 



2. E. violdceum, L. (violet-flowered Bugloss) ; stem herbace- 

 ous diffuse branched piloso-hispid, lower leaves ovato-oblong 

 petiolate, upper ones oblong cordate and somewhat amplexicaul 

 at the base, spikes elongated, stamens scarcely longer thaa 

 the corolla. L. Mant. p. 42. — E. plantagineum, L. Mant. p. 

 202. — Lycopsis, Ray, Syn. p. 227. 



Plentiful on the sandy grounds about St. Helier, Jersey. Fl. Aug. $ » 

 (?) — This is quite a distinct species from E. vulgare and certainly the 

 E. violaceum of Linnaeus and the continental Botanists. It is much less 

 hispid than E. vulgare, destitute of tubercles. The stem is branched, 

 spreading, often decumbent. The spikes much elongated, bearing more 

 A\siz.n\. jiowers. The stamens are very unequal, 2 of them much longer 

 than the corolla, 2 of them about the same length and one shorter. 



2. Pclmonaria. Linn. Lungwort. 



1. P. officinalis, L. [common Lungioort); leaves scabrous, ra- 

 dical ones ovato-cordate petiolate, upper ones of the stem ses- 

 sile ovate. E. Bot. ^.118 [excl. the root-leaves). 



Woods and thickets, rare. Durham and Bedfordshire ; more fre- 

 quent in Hampshire. Near Edinburgh and Glasgow; but scarcely wild. 

 FL May. ■y. — About 1 foot high. Stem-leaves all more or less ovate; 

 lower ones petiolate, upper ones sessile ; all with short hairs and fre- 

 quently spotted. Flowers purple. 



