Cpioglossum.'] 



LX. SOLANACE^. 



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lanceolate, solitary or opposite, or S — 4 nearly from the same point 

 of the stem; lower ones petlolate, all rough and slightly hispid. 

 Flowers blue, axillary, solitary. Peduncles short, at first erect, then 

 curved downward. CaL small, much enlarged in fruit. 



[Echinospermum Lappula has been found at SouthwoM, Suffolk, in 

 .August, 1839; and near Ware mill, Hertfordshire, in 1841 ; and E, 

 deflexum Lehm. near Chawton in Hampshire; but both, we fear, in- 

 troduced from the Continent] 



11. Cynoglossum Linn, Hound's-tonirue. 



CaL 5-cleft. 



Cor, (short) funnel-shaped, its mouth closed 



Stamens included 



with prominent, convex, connivent scales, 

 within the corolla. Achenes roundisli-ovate, depressed, muri- 

 cated, fixed by the edge to the persistent base of the style, — 

 !N"amed from kvojv^ a dog^ and yXaxjaa^ a tongue; from the shape 

 and texture of the leaf. 



I.e. officinale L. (common II,) ; lower leaves elliptical 



stalked softly downy, upper ones lanceolate narrowed below 



subcordate and semiamplexicaul, racemes without bracteas, 

 E.B.U 921. 



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Waste grounds and by road-sides ; less frequent in Scotland. 

 6, 7. — Whole plant soft to the touch, dull-green, with a fetid smell ; 

 often two feet high. Lower leaveson long foot-stalks, i^/oz^'crs purplish- 

 red. Fruit very rough : achenes flat in front, surrounded by a 

 thickened slightly prominent margin. 



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2. C. sylvdticum Hsenke {g7^een~leaved II) ; stem-leaves lan- 

 ceolate broad at the base shinhig sessile slightly hairy and sca- 

 brous especially beneath, upper ones somewhat narrowed below 

 and amplexicaul, racemes without bracteas. JS*. S. t. 1642. 



Shady places, by road-sides, &c., in the middle and east of England, 

 rare. Carse of Gowrie in Scotland. 



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$, 6, 7. — Distinguished readily from the last by its more or less 

 shinmg and brighter-coloured leaves, free from pubescence, and their 

 different figure. Root-leaves ovate-lanceolate, on very long foot-stalks. 

 Achenes flat in front, without a prominent margin. 



Near Balbriggan, Ireland. 



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Calyx 5- rarely 4-partite, persistent. Corolla ixionopetalous, 

 typogynous, its limb 5 -cleft, equal or somewhat unequal, de- 

 ciduous, with a plicate or imbricative sestivation. Stamens in- 

 serted into the corolla, alternate with its segments and equalling 

 them in number. Ovary 1- 2- or 4-celled. Style 1. Stigma 

 obtuse, rarely lobed. Pericarp 1- 2- or 4-celled; either a 

 capsule with a parallel double dissepiment, or a herry, with the 

 receptacles united to the dissepiments. Seeds numerous, peri- 

 tropal. Embryo included in a fleshy albumen, often out of the 

 axis. Radicle inferior, turned away from the more or less lateral 



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