•nOKAOINACEiT:. 0.') 



lii'iit. I'liiwiTing sti'in erect. Leaves elliijtieal-liuioeolate, very acute, 

 iiiiiiiitt ly iMihesccnt on both sides. Iiiflurcsccncc of 2 or 3 branches 

 from the apex of tlic stem, which olonfrate much in fruit. Bracts 

 longer tiian the calyx. Pedicels much shorter than the calyx in 

 fruit. Coi-olla three times as Ion;? as the calyx. Xucules bony, white, 

 U'Idbular-ovoid, rounded at the apex, polished and shining, less than 

 one-third the length of the calyx segments. 



In woods and bushy places, on chalk and limestone. Rare, and very 

 local. It occurs about Mary Church, Devon; near Bridgewater and 

 Taiuiton, Somerset; Denbigh and Caswell Bay, Glamorgan; and in 

 Darenth Wood, near Greenhithe, Kent. The latter is the only station 

 in which I have myself collected it. There it grows near the middle 

 of the wood, about 150 yards to the left of the public path going from 

 Darenth to Stone, but only flowers the second year after the copse 

 wood is cut. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



Ivootstock slender, woody, shortly creeping, producing arching 

 barren shoots at length about 1 foot long; the leaves on these ])seudo- 

 distichous. Flowering stems erect, wiry, 1 to 2 feet high, with long 

 hairs springing from minute tubercles. Leaves 1 .V to 4 inches long, 

 the lower ones attenuated towards the base. Infloi'cscence at first 

 subcapitate, but in fruit the 2 or 3 branches of which it consists (and 

 which spring nearly from one point at the apex of the stem) grow 

 till they are 4 to 8 inches long. Calyx in flower a little more than 

 I inch long, the segments lengthening in fruit till they are i to J inch 

 long, densely strigosely hairy, as Avell as the short jiedicels. Corolla 

 I to ^- inch long, with a spreading funnelshaped lind), which is 

 of a brilliant purplish blue, becoming at length liright blue. Nucules 

 about as large as hemp seed, pure, pasty-Avhite, highly polished, 

 usually only I or 2 in each calyx ripening. Plant dark green, clothed 

 with short liairs, seated on minute tubercles of unequal size. 



Purple Gromwell. 



French, Gremil violet. German, Purpurhlauer Steinsame, 



The common nnino of tliis plant seems to have been originally Gromell or Graymyle, 



n,s Turner says it should be written, from OianHtn soli's and Milium salis, together. 



"That is all one, saj-s the Greto Herball." So the apothecaries comprised the matter, 



accoixling to Dr. Prior, and combined them. 



SPECIES U.-LITHOSPERMUM OFFICINALE. Li,,,,. 

 Plate MCI. 



Reich. Tc. Fl. Genn. ct Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXIII. Fig. 1. 

 liillol, Fl. Gall, ct Germ. E.xsicc. No. l.!135. 



Perennial, herbaceous. Barren shoots none. Stems all erect. 



