V. 

 ANCHUSA TINCTORIA, 



Alkanet, or Dyer's Bugloss. 



Class V. Pentandria. — Order I. Monogynia. 



Nat. Ord. Boragine^. 



Gen. Char. Cahjx 5-cleft or 5-parted, persistent. Co- 

 rolla funnel-shaped ; tube straight, its mouth closed with 

 five prominent scales. Anthers included. Stigma emar- 

 ginate. Nuts concave at the base. 



Spec. Char. Leaves oblong. Bracteae longer than the 

 5-parted calyx. Valves of the corolla shorter than the 

 stamens. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek .... ay^t^ovo-a., Hippocrates. 



j^^f^^ < Anchusa Monspeliana. Bauh. Hist. III., 584, Raii.Hist. 496. 



\ Anchusa tinctoria. Lin. Sp. PI. 132 . 



French .... Orcanette tinctoriale. 



Italian .... Ancusa ; Alcanna. 



Spanish . . . Anchusa. 



German . . . Alkannawurzel ; Farben Ochsenzunge. 



Dutch Winkelossetung. 



Danish.... Rod oketunge. 



Description.— The root is perennial, long, woody, fibrous, and 

 externally of a purplish red colour. The stem is thick, 

 round, hairy, branched, and rises about eighteen inches in 

 height. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, 

 hairy, and without footstalks. The flowers are sessile in the 

 axils of the floral leaves, and terminate the branches in close spikes. 

 The calyx is persistent and divided into five deep, oblong, erect 

 segments. The corolla is fimnel-shaped ; the stamens are en- 

 closed in the tube, whicli is closed at the mouth by five small 



