S56 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lithospermum. 



lanceolate, acute, without lateral ribs. Barren stems 

 prostrate. 



L. purpuro-CBeruleum. Linn. Sp. PL 190. Willd. v. 1. 754. Fl. 



Br.2\A. Fm^I. Bot. v.2. t.l)?. Hook. Lond. t. 12. Jacq. Austr. 



t.\A. Ehrh.^Herb. 22. 

 L. n. 596. Hall. Hist. v. 1.264. 



L. majus Dodonaei, flore purpureo, semine Anchusse. Raii Sy7i.229. 

 L. majus. Dod. Pempt. 83./. Ger. Em. G09./. 

 L. repens. Clus. Pannon. 684./. 

 Anchusa repens, lithospermi facie, floribus cseruleis, secundum 



folia prorumpentibus. Pluk. Phyt. t.7G.f. 2. 



' In thickets on a chalky soil, but rare. 



On the top of a bushy hill, on the north side of Denbigh, Wales ; 

 and near Taunton, Somersetshire. Ray. Near Greenhithe, Kent, 

 John Latham, M.D. Found in'Darent wood, Kent, by the late 

 Mr. Curtis ; at Marychurch, Devonshire, by the Rev. Aaron 

 Neck ; and near Caswell bay, Glamorganshire, by Mr. J. Tur- 

 ner. Hooker. 



Root woody, blackish, branching and tufted. Stems several, round, 

 mimiteiy bristly, leafy j some procumbent, simple, 12 or 18 

 inches long, taking root at the extremity, and bearing no flowers ; 

 others erect, a foot high, simple below, corymbose and many- 

 flowered at the top. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, taper-pointed, 

 contracted at the base into a short footstalk ; clothed on both 

 sides with short close hairs, accompanied on the upper with 

 many callous warts ; the under side palest. Spikes 2 or 3, ter- 

 minal, leafy, erect. Calyx narrow, bristly. Coi: full twice as 

 long ; externally reddish ; limb expanded, of a violet blue on 

 the upper side, with 5 pale swellings at its base, which do not 

 close the tube, in whose upper part the stamens are situated. 

 Seeds ovate, hard, of a silvery white, highly polished, slightly 

 rugged, rarely perfected. 



Haller quotes Plukenet inaccurately, and is copied by others. 



4. L. ?naritif?m7n. Sea Gromwell. 



Seeds keeled, even. Leaves ovate, glaucous, besprinkled 

 with callous points. Stems all procumbent. 



L. maritimum. " Lehm. Asperif. 291 ." Hook. Scot. 68. 



Pulmonaria maritima. Linn. Sp. PL l9o. fVilld. v. I. 770. FL 

 Br. 218. EngL Bot. v. 6. t. 368. CurL Lond.fasc.6. t. 18. Light/. 

 134. L 7. Don H. Br. 206. FL Dan. t. 2;y. 



Echium marinum. Raii Syn. 228, Sibb. Scot, part 2. .55. 1. 12. 



Cerinthe maritima procumbens, foliis et floribus cseruleis. DHL 

 Elth.7b.t.C)5. 



C. foliis ovatis petiolatis. Linn. Hort. CiiJ'. 48. 



Cynoglossum procumbens glaucophyllon maritimum nostras flori- 

 bus purpuro-cseruleis, semine laevi. Pluk., Phyt. t. 172. f. 3. 



