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1. Small Wild Buglofs. 
Buglofum fyluetre minus. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, flender, hairy, of a pale 
green, and divided irregularly into many branches. 
The leaves are placed alternately ; and they 
are oblong, moderately broad, and of a frefh 
green: they have no footftalks : they are irregu- 
larly indented or waved on the edges; and they 
are hairy, and rough to’ the touch. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in confiderable numbers ; and they are {mall and 
blue: they rife fron» hairy cups. 
The feeds are fmall and oblong. 
It is common in barren paftures, and in corn- 
fields ;, and flowers in July. 
€. Bauhitie calls: it Buglofum' fylveftre minus. 
Others, Bugloffa minor. 
2. Evergreen Buglofs. 
Buglafjum fempervirens. 
This is a very elegant plant. The common 
writers have from the breadth of its leaves taken 
it to be a'fpecies of dorage ; but it is properly of |, 
the Juglofs kind. — 
The root is long, thick, and white ; and it is 
furnifhed with many fibres. 
~ 'The-firft leaves are numerous, and very large: 
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’ Garden-Buglofs. 
Bugloffum fativum vulgare: 
The root is long and thick, black on the out- 
fide, white within, and full of a flimy juice. 
The firft leaves are’ large, oblong, not very 
broad, and of a fine green ‘colour, but covered 
with’a grey hairynefs, which makes them rough 
to the touch, 
The ftalk is round, upright, and toward the 
top divided into many branches : it is of a pale 
green, hairy, and a yard high. 
The leaves are placed alternately on it ; and 
they have no footftalks: they are oblong, nar- 
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they are broad, fharp-pointed, rough to the 
touch, and of a beautiful green. 
The ftalk is round, thick, hairy, and rough 
to the touch, of a freth green, divided into nu- 
merous branches, and a yard high. 
The flowers are very numerous: they ftand all 
over the tops of the ftalks and branches; and 
they are of a beautiful blue. 
‘The feeds are dark coloured, and fmall. 
We have it wild in dry paftures in Kent and 
Effex. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Buglofium latifolium femper- 
virens. Others, Borago fempervirens. 
3: Alkanet Buglofs. 
Buglofum arvenfe radice rubente. 
The root is long, flender, and of a redifh colour. 
The ftalk is round, upright, branched, and 
“hairy: it isa foot and half high; and its colour 
| is'a pale green. 
| The leaves are placed irregularly on the ftalks 5. 
_ and they are oblong and narrow, of a faint green, 
' and hairy. 
The flowers are fmal] and white: they ftand in 
great numbers about the'tops of the ftalks. 
The feeds are {mall and brown. 
“It is common in corn-fields, and on ground 
that has been dug. . It fowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lithofpernum arvenfe radice 
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rubra. Others, Bagloffum anchufe facie. 
FOREIGN SPECEES. 
row, of a pale green, hairy, and rough to the 
touch. ; 
The flowers grow in great numbers on the tops: 
of all the branches; and they are fmall, and of a 
purplifh blue. 
The feeds are large, and dark coloured. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in Au- 
uft. 
C.Bauhine calls it Bugloffum anguftifolium majus. 
Others, Bugloffum vulgare. 
The flowers are celebrated for their cordial 
virtue ; but they are not much ufed, 
GARY ONS | Ung Sere IV. 
VIPERS BUGLOSS. 
ECHIUM. 
THE flower is formed of a fingle petal : 
into a very wide mouth ; and is divided into 
ftand upwards, and are longer than the others ; 
it is tubular at the bafe, and thence gradually expands 
five unequal fegments at the edge: two of thefe 
and one in the lower part is fmaller than the others, 
and naturally turns back. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, and divided into five fegments. The 
feeds after each flower are four 5 and they are of a roundifh figure, and pointed. 
Linnzeus places this among the pentandria monogynia the ftyle being fingle, and the threads five. © 
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