Pl.ex.cor. 31. BORAGINE^. 118. Echiiim. 357 



2. EcTi'myn vidgare. Comvion vipcr.s-bugloss. 



Stem mostly simple, tubercular, hispid ; leaves linear, 



lanceolate, hispid ; racemes terminal, spikeshaped, very 



long; spikelets simple, spreading; stamens longer than the 



corolla. 



Echium vulgare, Rail Syn. 2il, I; Ger. em. 802,2; Part. 414; Lin. 

 S. P. 200. 



Fields and wastes; biennial; June and July. 



Root branched, thick ; stems many, simple, upright ; 

 leaves hispid; Jioums imbricate; spikes short, axillary; pe- 

 dicells upright, spreading. — Root chewed, used as a poultice 

 in venomous bites. 



/3. vlolaceum. Stem branched from the bottom, spread- 

 ing and often decumbent; stamens very long. 



_. Echium alfenim, sive iycopsis Anglica, Dillen in Riiii Syn. 228,3. 

 Echium vulgare /?, Hifdson Fl. ylngl. 83. 

 Echium violaceum, Schmidt Fl. Bohem. 203,3. 



y. album. Corolla white. 



Fam. XV. 32. LABIATE.. Jussieu. Stachydece, R.A. 



Salisbury. 

 Calyx 1 -leafed, tubular, persisting, 4 or 5-cut; corolla lip- 

 ped, ringent, or irregular ; stamens 2 or 4, often didynamous, 

 inserted on the corolla; ovary 1, free, 4-lobed ; style 1, on 

 the receptacle or gynobasis, between the lobes of the ovary; 

 stigma mostly 2-cut ; microhasis (cariopsides 4) at the base 

 of the calyx; perispermO; corculum straight; radicle be- 

 low ; cotyledons flat. — Stem herbaceous, rarely shrubby, 

 4-sided; hairs distinctly partitioned ; leaves oppo&ite ;Jlowers 

 mostly in bundles, disposed in close panicles forming spu- 

 rious whirls, rarely solitary, sometimes terminal and capi- 

 tate, bracteated. 



a. Stamens 2, corolla not lipped. 



Upper lobe of corolla nicked Lycopus. 119. 



b. Stamens 2; corolla lipped ; filaments l-looihed. 



GaZt'fl!arched;y?/aw. toothed in the middle Salvia. 147. 



Galea arched, not compressed Horminum. 149. 



Galea compressed Sclarea. 148, 



c. Stamens 4 ; corolla not lipped. 



Calyx 5-cut, slightly hairy ; upper lobe 

 of the corolla nicked Mentha. 120.' 



