* 

 $54i 114. Mertensia. 31. BORAGINE.^. PI. ex. cor. 



JMertensia maritima. Sea mertens. 



Stem procumbent, branched ; leaves ovate, blunt, fleshy, 

 bald, glaucous ; calyx bald. 



Echiutn marinum, Raii Syn. 228, 1. 

 Buglossum dulce ex insulis Lancastris, Park. 765? 

 Pulmonaria maritima, Lin. S. P. 195. 

 Pulmonaria procumbens, Stokes Hot. 31. M, 281. 



Sea bugloss. 



Sea-shore; perennial; July. 



Root fusiform; stems many, procumbent or ascending; 

 lower leaves petioled ; upper half-embracing the stem ; ra- 

 cemes terminal, rather corymbose ; flowers pedicelled, up- 

 right. — Narcotic. 



X. 115. iEGONYCHON. Bastard-alkanet. 



Calyx 5-parted, shorter than the corolla ; corolla funnel- 

 shape ; mouth naked, pervious ; anthers oblong, enclosed : 

 cariopsides 4, 1 -celled, ovate, imperforate at the bottom; 

 gynobasis flat, small. — Leaves not growing after flowering, 

 not veined ; flowers axillary, solitary ; racemes leafy. 



1 . ^gonychon repens. Creeping lastard-alkanef. 

 Stem herbaceous : barren stems creeping ; flowering stems 



upright ; leaves lanceolate, pointed, attenuated at the base, 

 rough; cariopsides stonj', smooth, bald. 



Lithospermuin majus Dodonaei, fiore purpureo, semine anchusae, Raii 

 Syn. 229, 2. 



Lithospermuin majus, Ger. em. 609, 1. 



Lithospermum vulgare majus, Park. 2131. 



Lithospermum purpureo-casruleum, Lin. S. P. 190. 



Lithospermum repens, Stokes Bot. M. If. 271. 



Lithospermum violaceum, Lamarck Ft. Fr. 27 1. 



Great gromwell. Pearl plant. Lichwale. 



Chalk woods ; perennial ; May. 



Root branched, black; stems many; middle stems upright; 

 all the rest" decumbent, simple ; leaves stiff; petioles short ; 

 corolla violet or flesh-colour, rarely white ; cariopsides white* 



2. ^gonychoji arvense. Field hastard-alkanet. 

 Stem herbaceous, upright, branched ; leaves lanceolate, 



narrowed at the base, pointed, hirsute, rather fringed ; 

 calyx rather shorter than the corolla, spreading when in 

 fruit; cariopsides wrinkled, rough. 



Buglossum arvense annuum, lithospermi folii, Raii Syn, 227. 

 Anchusa dcgener facie miiii solis, Oer. ein, 610,4. 

 Lithospermum arvense radiie rubente. Park. 432. 

 Lithospermum arvense, Lin. S. P. 190. 

 Bastard gromwell. Bastard alkunet. 



