359. Ill.Buglossa. 31. BORAGINE^. Pl.ex.cor, 



Way-sides ; annual ; June and July. 



Root fusiform; stem upright or ascending, branched; 

 leaves wavey ; hairs sitting on tubercles ; racemes terminal ; 

 pedicells short; corolla blu6, finely veined with white. 



2. Buglossa sempervirens. Evergreen bugloss. 



Stein upright ; leaves ovate, scarcely toothed, hispid ; 

 upper sessile; lower longly peduncled; peduncles axillary, 

 2-leaved; racemes conjugate, rather capitate; lobes of the 

 corolla equal. 



I5uglossiim latifolium semper virens, Dillen in Rati Syn. 227, 2. 

 Borago semper virens, Ger. em, 797,3. 

 Anchusii sempervireHs, Lin. S, P. 192. 

 Buglossum sempervirens, Allioni Pedem. 166. 



Waysides ; perennial ; May and June. 



Stem upright, extremely rough, bristles turned back- 

 wards ; leaves pointed, rough on both sides, edges waved ; 

 calyx deeply o-parted ; corolla nearly rotate, blue ; tube 

 yery short; limb horizontal, 5-parted ; lobes rounded, 

 equal; jhramina of the cariopsides closed with a scale. 



VII. 112. ANCHUSA. Hippocrates. Alkanet, 



Calyx 5-cut or toothed, becoming bellshaped and in- 

 flated; corolla funnelshaped, 5-lobed: lobes equal; mouth 

 closed; arches upright, blunt; cariopsides 4;, 1-celled, tur- 

 binate, perforated at the base; gynobasis flat, small. — - 

 Flowers Ya.cen\ose; fruit drooping. 



Anchusa officwaUs. Shop alkanet. 



Leaves lanceolate, hispid; IractecB ovate, lanceolate, as 

 long as the calyx; calyx 5-cut, pointed. 



Buglossa vulgjiris, Qer. em. 798, 1. 

 Anchusa officinalis, Lin. S. P. 191. 



Waste places by the sea; perennial; June and July. 



Stems niany, upright, branched at top ; /(^awi pointed, 

 not in the least cut; /lowers sessile, imbricated ; spikes ter- 

 minal; tube of the corolla as long as the calyx, constricted 

 under the limb; limb upright, spreading; Zo^i?5 rounded r 

 mouth closed with 5 upright arches. 



^. i7icarnata. Flowers red, variegated. 



7. alha. Flowers white. 



