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Lix. BOKAGiNACE^. . iPulmondria. 



or gravelly soil : common on the Surrey hills, with pale f\. -k q >. 

 — Stems 2—3 feet high. Boot-leaves spreading, petioled.' Snihes'a} 

 flowers lateral, secund, recurved, forming one long compound spike 



raceme. Corolla at first reddish-purple, then brilliant blue, sonietim/ 

 white. * '■^ 



t. 1628. 

 Wood 



(or -with very minute scales) 



filaments 



short. Style simple. Achenes stony, with a truncated base, 



J. h. inolaceumh. (purple-floicered B.) ; stem herbaceous 

 dittuse branched pilose-hispid, knver leaves ovate-oblonir petio. 

 late, upper ones oUong cordate and somewhat auipfexicaul 

 at the base, spikes elongated, stamens scarcely lono-er than tl„. 

 corolla. U. B. S. t. 2798. ° 



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Plentiful on the sandy grounds In Jersey. ^, 7. Quite a 



distinct species from E. vulyare, and certainly the E. vioJaceum of 

 Linnaeus and the Continental botanists. It is much less hispid than 

 E. vulgare and destitute of tubercles. Stem branched, spreadin-r 

 often decumbent. Spikes much elongated, bearing n^ore distant 

 flowers. Stamens very unequal, 2 of them much longer than tlie 

 corolla, 2 of them about the same length, and 1 shorter. 



2. Pui.MO]?fARiA Linn. Lungwort. 



Cal. with 5 angles, 5-cleft. Cor. regular, funnel-shaped, its 

 throat naked. Stamens included : fdameyits very short, Style 

 Simple. Achenes with a flat base, seated on an hypo'^ynous 

 disk,.free from the style.— Named from pidmo, the lungs° from 

 ■the use formerly made of this and other Boruginacecem pulmo- 

 nary affections. In the present instance, the spotted leaves 

 resembling the lungs, were the principal recommendation. 



1, P. * officinalis L. {common Z.) ; leaves scabrous, radical 

 ones ovate-cordate petiolate, upper ones of the stem sessile 

 ovate. iu.B.t. 118 {excl. the root-leaves). 



Woods and thickets, rare. Dane's wood, near Slindon, Sussex • 

 Durham and Bedfordshire. Near Edinburgh and Glascrow bm 

 scarcely wild, ir . 5. - About 1 foot high. Stem-leaves \\\ more 

 or less ovate; lower ones petiolate, upper ones sessile; all with short 

 liairs, and hequently spotted. Flowers purple. 



2. P. angustifoUa L. {narrow-leaved L.) ; leaves scabrous, , 



radical ones petiolate, upper ones sessile all lanceolate. E. B. ' «k 



kLUUi^iUCi 



simple, ( 



feman 



woods and thickets rare. Isle of Wight, and New Forest, Ilamp. I ][ 



shire and m Flintshire. ir. 3-6. ~ Usually taller than the ' ^■- 



precedmg and deferent m the shape of its foliage, which is seldom 

 spotted ; but these marks are not constant. Inflorescence subcopitate. 



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3. LiTHosPERMUM Liun. Gromwell. 

 Calm 5 deep segments. Cor, funnel-shaped, Its mouth naked 



:' With VPrV mimit.P «nnlaa\ .C/^^« • 11 -1 



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Sea. 





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