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DIVISION IL 
1, Common Vipers Buglofs, 
Echium vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres. 
The firft leaves lie upon the ground in a rotind 
clufter : ‘they are oblong, moderately broad, of a 
dufky green, and covered with rough hairs. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and a foot and 
half high: it is not much branched ; and_ its 
ground-colour is a bright green; but it is ufually 
fpotted very beautifully with red, and is very 
hainy, 
The leaves are placed alternately on it; and 
they are oblong and narrow, of a pale green, 
hairy, and fharp-pointed ; and there ufually ftand 
many young ones in their bofoms. 
The flowers are large, numerous, and of a very 
fine blue, with more or lefs tinge of redifh or 
purplith as they are more or lefs opened. The 
ftyle in the middle is white, and the buttons on 
the threads in the flower are red. 
Thefe flowers are placed in feveral feries along 
the tops of the ftalks upon flender, bending, or 
curling branches. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
Augutft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Echium vulgare; a name 
copied by moft others. 
2. Wall-Buglofs, 
Echium. murale. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few ftraggling fibres: 
The ftalk is round, upright, a foot or more 
in height, and very much branched. 
The leaves are placed alternately, and have 
no footftalks : they are oblong, broad at the bafe, 
{maller all the way to the point, of a pale green, 
and hairy. 
The flowers ftand in confiderable number at 
the extremities of the branches; and they are 
large, and of a beautiful blue. 
The feeds are irregularly fhaped and pointed. 
DIVISION I. 
African thrubby Echium. 
Echium Africanum fruticofum. 
The root is woody and fpreading. 
The ftem is firm, hard, woody, and divided 
into many branches, 
The leaves are placed irregularly ; and they 
are very numerous: they are oblong, narrow, 
and of a beautiful green, 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
It is a native of our fea-coafts ; where it grows 
on the barren beach, on rocks, and from the 
walls made to keep in the fea, It flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lycopfs; a name moft 
others have followed. Some, Echii altera Species. 
3. Small-flowered Wall-Buglofs, 
Echium ramofum flore parvo. 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalk is round, upright, hairy, divided 
into many branches, and of a pale green colour. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
they have all the rudiments of branches in their 
bofoms in the lower part, and long fhoots in ‘ 
the upper. 
The flowers ftand at the extremities of the 
branches ; and are fall, and of a purplith co- 
lour. ; d 
It is common about our fouthern Coafts, and 
flowers in Auguift. : 
Ray calls it Echinm alterum, five Lycopfis An- 
glica. ; 
4. Sea-Buglofs. 
Buglofum maritimum procumbens, 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with a few ftraggling fibres, 
The ftalks are numerous, and they lie in great 
part upon the ground: they are round, of a pale 
green, and not much branched. : 
The leaves are placed alternately : they are ob- 
long, broadeft in the middle, fharp-pointed, and 
joined to the ftalk by a narrow bafe, 
The flowers ftand in confiderable number at 
the tops of the branches ; and fome rife alfo from 
the bofoms of the leaves: they are {mall and 
blue. 
The feeds are roundifh, but pointed, and of a 
pale brown. 
We have it about our fouthern coafts, It 
flowers in Augutt. , sy 
Ray calls it Echium marinum. 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown, 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 3 
and they are large and beautiful: their general 
colour is a fine fky-blue ; but they are red at 
the bottom. 
The feeds are large and brown, 
It is a native of Africa, and fowers in July. 
Van Royen and others call it Echium caule fra. 
ticofo, 
GENUS 
