PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cynoglossum. 259 



an intermediate flower, and two principal ovate bracteas. 

 Leaves ovate. 



A. sempervirens. Linn. Sp. PI. 192. fVilld. v. 1. 759. Fl. Br. 2\5. 

 Eiigl. Bot. v.l.t. 45. Hook. Land. t. 94. Scot. G8. Lehm.Asperif. 

 236. 



Buglossum latifolium semper virens. Bauh. P 171, 25 6. Dill, in Rail 

 Sijn. 227. 



B. semper virens. Lob. Ic. 575./. 



B. folio borraginis hispanicum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. b77 ■/. good. 

 Borago semper virens. Ger. Em. 797. f. 



In waste ground, among ruins, and by road sides. 



Near Horns-place, near Rochester. J. Sherard. About Norwich 

 in several places, as well as at Haddiscoe, Norfolk. At VVal- 

 pole by Halesworth, Suffolk ■ and in several parts of the south 

 of Scotland. Hooker. At Invevary. Rev. W. Wood. On the 

 ruins of Maes-glas monastery, FHntshire. Rev.fV.Bingley. Near 

 Birmingham, Worcester, and Sidmouth. Withering. In several 

 places near Settle, Yorkshire. Dr. Windsor. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root thick, mucilaginous ; externally black. Herb rough with ra- 

 ther rigid hairs. Stems 18 inches high, round, leafy, annual. 

 Radical leaves stalked, a span long, lasting through the winter; 

 the rest sessile ; all ovate, broad, with transverse veins. Par- 

 tial bracteas lanceolate. Flowers more salver-shaped than most 

 of the genus ; the tube but half as long as the limb, which is of 

 a most brilliant sky-blue ; the valves white and downy. The 

 Jlower-buds are reddish. Seeds ovate, brown, compressed, with 

 elevated wrinkles. Lehmann remarks that the cavity, or perfo- 

 ration, at the base of each seed is closed with a scale. 



90. CYNOGLOSSUM. HoundVtongue. 



Linn. Gen. 75. Juss. \3l. Fl.Br.2l6. Tourn.t.57. Lam. t. 92. 

 GcErtn. t. &7 . 



Nat. Ord. see n. 87. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, oblong, slightly acute seg- 

 ments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, funnel-shaped, scarcely 

 longer than the calyx ; tube cylindrical, shorter than the 

 limb, which is divided half way down into 5 rounded seg- 

 ments ; mouth about half closed with as many convex, 

 horizontal valves. Filam. in the throat, lower than the 

 valves and alternate with them. Anth. roundish. Germens 

 4, depressed, horizontal. Style central, awl-shaped, almost 

 as long as the tube, permanent. Stigma small, notched. 

 Seeds 4-, depi'essed, roundish, imperforate at the base, 

 more or less rough with hooked prickles, sometimes bor- 



