266 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lycopsis. 



A. spuria. Dod. Pempt. 356. f. 



Alysson germanicum echioides. Lob. Ic. 803. f. Dalech.Hist.l 143./. 



Aparine major Plinii. Ger. Em. 1122./. 



Borrago minor sylvestris yta.pKO'x^-^vo'TtB;. Column. Ecphr. 1 8 1 . <. 1 83. 



Cynoglossa topiaria forte Plinii. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 601 ./. The same 



cut is put in the preceding page, for C. folio virente ! 

 German Madwort. Petiv.H. Brit. t. 29. f. 12. 



In rich waste ground, but rare. 



Near Newmarket ; by Boxley, in Sussex ; and in the Holy island. 

 Ray. At Wangford, near Brandon. Mr. F. Eagle. Near Pur- 

 fleet, Essex, found by Mr. Alchorne. Iluds. About the church 

 at Newmarket. Relhan. At Dunbar. Lightfoot, Hooker. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root small, tapering. Steins prostrate, square, leafy, a foot or tW'O 

 in length, their angles beset with reflexed prickles. Leaves 

 2, 3, or 4 together, dark green, elliptic-lanceolate, bordered 

 with direct prickles, and rough with depressed bristly hairs, so 

 that the plant sticks to the hands or clothes like Galium Sparine. 

 Flowers small, axillary, solitary, on short stalks ; limb of a fine 

 deep blue ; valves white or reddish. Cal. when in fruit de- 

 flexed, much enlarged. Seeds whitish, finely granulated. Co- 

 lumna's Greek appellation compares the enlarged calyx, aptly 

 enough, to a Goose's foot. This appears to be the only genuine 

 species of Asperugo, so that the specific character is superfluous. 



95. LYCOPSIS. Bugloss. 



Linn. Gen. 78. Juss. 131. Fl. Br. 220. Lam. t. 92. Gartn. t.67. 

 Echioides. Dill. Gen. 100. t.3. 



Nat. Ord. see ti. 87. 



Cal. inferioi", of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, oblong, acute, erect, or 

 somewhat spreading, segments, permanent. Cor. of 1 

 petal, funnel-shaped; tube cylindrical, curA^ed to one side 

 just above the base, and recurved towards the summit ; 

 limb in 5 rather deep, rounded segments, sometunes ob- 

 lique, and slightly irregular; mouth closed with 5 rounded, 

 convex, hairy, convergmg valves. Filam. very small, within 

 the tube at its uppermost curvature. Anth. oblong, in- 

 cumbent. Germ. 4. S/y/e thread-shaped, half the length 

 of the tube. Stigma obtuse, notched. Seeds 4, ovate, angu- 

 lar, with a bordered scar, attached to the base of the en- 

 larged swelling caljoc. 



Hei'baceous, bristly and warty. Leaves for the most part 

 sessile, alternate, often wavy, or slightly sinuated. Chis- 

 ters terminal, solitary, or in pairs, somewhat bracteated. 

 Fl. bright blue, or purplish. 



