242 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
panded, naked. Stamens st exserted, unequal. Nudtlets roughened 
or wrinkled, fixed * a flat base 
‘ 1. E. vulga’re, L. Stem tuber- 
culate-hispid ; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, hispi d; flowers in 
lateral secund spikes, ae 
ed in a long narrow Ta 
Common Ecurum suiBte wood 
hate oe Blue Devils. 
Fr. aux Vipéres. Ger 
Der Natterko ee Span. Yer- 
b 1 ” Vibora 
pra rae 2- ns feet a 
acute sessile. Spikes numerous, ax- 
ne! itteny and at first recurved, 
ally la at first r- 
lis, finally bright “bine; pubescent 
Akenes eg ees angu- 
jar ee a ‘immer 8 ide, keeled on org 
back, a little incurve: # Rexetrecrs minate, 
rough with tubercles of a greyish- 
brown color. 
Fields and road-sides : introduced. 
ere of Europe. Fl. June. Fr. 
Augus' 
Obs. This showy but vile 
weed, has bee become extensively 
om 
siderable quant the 
State of Ma ormand, and ofits 
a nnsylvani 
Prof. A. Gray informs us ( Silliman’s Seareer "Fol 1 1, 4 p- 13), “that in 
the valley of the Shenandoah, Virginia, “ for the distance of more than 
a hundred miles, it has taken complete possession, even of many cu ulti ivat- 
ed fields.” A veteran editor of a newspaper in the “Old Dominion,” 
on the Ovi hrase—* Principrs 
maxim, practica is plant, he would “have done the 
service :” and ev 2 pike would do well to bear that maxim 
Fic. 154. Flowering summit of Viper’s Bugloss (Echium yulgare). a Ls 
