90 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



bristly spreading hairs seated on small tubercles. Radical leaves oval 

 or elliptical-oval, abruptly attenuated into distinct petioles, the midrib, 

 the lateral ribs, and the lateral veins all conspicuous; lower stem leaves 

 subsessile, oblanceolate, attenuated towards the base ; upper ones ob- 

 lanceolate, abruptly acuminated, abrupt or subcordate at the base, and 

 semi-amplexicaul ; all clothed with rather stiff bristly hairs seated on 

 u)inute unequal tubercles. Flowers all bracteate, in scorpioid spikes, 

 which are arranged in a slender panicle; spikes at first dense and 

 short, afterwards elongating and spreading or divaricate, slightly 

 curved upwards; all the spikes stalked, with tlie basal portion of the 

 stalk bare of flowers and leaves. Corolla tube suddenly and greatly 

 enlarged upwards, much longer than the calyx-teeth. Stamens at 

 length slightly exserted. 



By roadsides and in waste places in sandy ground. Rare, and only 

 found in the south and south-west of Jersey, where it is plentiful 

 by the side of St. Aubin's and St. Brelade's Bay. 



Chaimel Islands. Annual or Biennial. Early Summer to Autumn. 



Root resembling that of E. vulgare. Leaves, including the petioles, 

 2 to 18 inches long, bearing a superficial resemblance to those of the 

 common plantain. Stem 6 inches to 3 feet high, erect or more or less 

 decumbent, generally branched at the base, and again in the upper 

 portion, where the branches form a wide panicle ; there is usually about 

 an inch near the base of these side branches destitute of flowers, after- 

 wards these branches elongate until they are from 6 inches to 1 foot long. 

 Corolla in the Jersey plant 1 to l\ inch long, brilliant purplish blue, 

 much darker than in E. vulgare; the nucules are very similar to tliose 

 of that sj>ecies. The hairs on the plant are much softer th;m in E 

 vulgare, and not vulnerant, and the pustules are still smaller. 



This is E. plantagineum of the Linnean Herbarium. E. violaceum 

 of that collection is represented by a plant, which 1 have not seen else- 

 where, with large scattered stony pustules, some of them nearly -J inch 

 in diameter. E. violaceum, Lin7i., is certainly not E. rubrum of Jac- 

 quin, as supposed by M. Godron in the Flore de France : it is nearest 

 the Algerian E. grandifioruni of Desfontaines, but has the pustules 

 nearly twice as large as those of any of the specimens of that plant 

 which I have seen. 



Purple Viper^s Bugloss. 



French, Viperiiie aj)0i7s uniformes. Gci-man, Natterkoj}/. 



GENUS //.^FULMONARIA. Toumef. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly regular, funnelslmped, suddenly 

 dilated at the throat, which is open, without scales, but w4th 5 small 



