86 COEOLLIFLOR^;. 



BORAGO. BORAGE. 



3B. officinalis (common B.) In waste ground and among rub- 

 bish. Plant from 12 to 18 inches high ; stern erect with spread- 

 ing branches ; lower leaves oblong, pointed, narrowing at the 

 base into long stalks, but clasping the stem by an auricled expan- 

 sion ; uppermost leaves nearly sessile. Whole plant very hairy. 

 Flowers on long stalks, drooping, of a clear brilliant blue, with 

 the dark anthers showing very distinctly in the centre. Paignton. 

 Chudleigh. Bovey. Chagford. (E. B. t. 36.) B. VI.TII. 



CYNOGIaOSSUra. HOUND'S-TONGTJE. 



C. officinale (common H.) By roadsides and in waste places. 

 Stem about 2 feet high, stout, erect, and branched, roughly hairy. 

 Kadical leaves very long, stalked, ovate-lanceolate, downy ; upper 

 leaves lanceolate, half-clasping ; flower-clusters numerous, forming 

 a terminal leafy panicle. Flowers small, of a dull purplish-red ; 

 seeds covered with short hooked prickles. Paignton Marsh. 

 Near Stoke Gabriel, by the side of tfre high-road. Kerswell 

 Down, in great abundance. Chudleigh. (E. B.t. 921.) B. vi.vn. 



OED. LX. SQLANACEJE. 

 HYOSCYAMUS. HENBANE. 



H. niger (common Henbane.} Waste places, in a chalky or 

 limestone soil. A strong, upright, branching plant, from 1 to 2 

 feet high, hairy and very viscid, with a peculiarly unpleasant 

 odour. Leaves large, sessile, alternate, sharply notched ; upper 

 ones clasping, ovoid, and irregularly pinnatifid. Flowers erect, 

 on very short stalks, or sessile ; calyx 5-cleft, veined, crowning 

 the fruit after the corolla has fallen ; corolla dingy-yellow, most 

 beautifully pencilled with a network of purple streaks ; seed- 

 vessel globular, surmounted by the calyx, containing numerous 

 small seeds, and closed by a lid. Whole plant poisonous, with 

 the exception of the seeds. Babbicombe, on the side of the slope 

 at the end of the Down nearest to Petit Tor. Paignton, near 

 the green. Goodrington sands. Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 591.) A. 

 or B. Y.-Vll. 



SOLANUM. NIGHTSHADE. 

 1. S. Dulcamara (woody N. 9 or Bittersweet.) In woods and 



