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1. Cbmmoii Alkanet. Anchusa officinalis, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 662.) 



A biennial, about 2 feet high, with coarse, stiff hairs ; the root thick and 

 hard. Radical leaves long and stalked ; the lower stem-leaves lanceolate, 

 broad or narrow, from 2 to 5 or 6 inches long ; the upper ones gradually 

 smaller. The one-sided forked spikes lengthen considerably as the flower- 

 ing advances, and form a kind of terminal panicle. Flowers nearly sessile, 

 with a small, leafy bract at the base of each ; the calyx very stiffly hairy, 

 with narrow divisions ; the corolla of a rich blue, and rather large, but 

 varies in size. 



In waste places, on roadsides, etc., all over the continent of Em-ope, ex- 

 cept the extreme north, and eastward to the Caucasus. In Britain, only in 

 a few localities, chiefly on the east coast of England, and supposed to be an 

 introduced plant. Fl. summer. 



2. Green Alkanet. Anchusa sempervirens, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 45.) 



Stock perennial, the stems more straggling than those of the common A., 

 but covered with the same coarse, stiff hairs. Leaves broadly ovate ; the 

 flowers in one-sided, short spikes, leafy at the base, and placed in the axils 

 of the stem-leaves. Corolla of a rich blue, with a shorter tube than m the 

 common A. Nuts expanded at the base on the inner side into a small con- 

 vex appendage. 



In waste places, on roadsides, etc., in western Europe, scarcely extending 

 eastward along the Mediterranean, and not reaching the Rhine. Scattered 

 over several parts of Britain, but probably truly wUd only in south-western 

 England and Ireland. Fl. spring and summer. 



VII. BUGLOSS. LYCOPSIS. 



A small European and north Asiatic genus, distinguished from Alkanet 

 by the curved tube of the corolla. The species are all annuals, with small 

 flowers. 



1. Small Bugloss. Lycopsis arvensis, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 938.) 



A coarse, spreading annual, covered with very stiff hairs. Stems pro- 

 cumbent at the base, branched, 1 to 2 feet long. Leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong-Unear, waved on the edges, and often toothed ; the lower ones often 

 stalked, the upper ones sessile or stem-clasping. Flowers in simple or 

 forked, terminal, one-sided spikes. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, and nuts wrinkled 

 as in Alkanet. Corolla pale blue, with the tube always cm-ved in the 

 middle. 



A common European and north Asiatic weed of cultivation, carried out 

 with European crops to North America and other parts of the world. Ex- 

 tends all over Britaui. Fl. summer. 



YIII. COMPREY. SYMPHYTUM. 

 Rough, hairy perennials, with yellow or purple drooping flowers, in short, 



