PLATE .CLIV. 
ECHIUM ARGENTEUM. 
; Silvery-leaved V iper’s-Buglo/s. 
CLASS V. ORDER’ I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
‘ , ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corowa irregularis, fauce nuda. | Bossom irregular, mouth naked, 
: See Ecu1um GRANDIFLORuM, Pl. XX, Vol. I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Echium foliis lanceolatis, acutis, fericeo-villofis ; Viper’s-buglofs with lance-fhaped leaves, tharp- 
fpicis terminalibus; corolla violacea, fub- pointed and filkily-hairy; fpikes terminate 
qualia. the branches; bloffom violet colour, nearly 
; ‘ equal. 
Nee 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 
3. The Seed-buds, Shaft, and Summit. 
i ae 
Tuis fine fpecies of Echium, was raifed 
year 1780, at the nurfery, Hammerfmith ; where our drawing was made, laft year, from a plant which 
’ had been planted in the open ground, for the fummer months; and where it had grown to the height 
pa me It is a hardy green-houfe plant, and grows beft in “light earth, either peat, or leaf 
3 and flowers about July. « It j as either, the E, grandiflorum, or E. 
ferociffimum; but only to be in : 
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