FLATE CLAY. 
ECHIUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM. 
_Sea-green-leaved Viper’s-Buglo/s. 
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CLASS V. ORDER I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotta irregularis, fauce nuda. | Brossom irregular, mouth naked. 
See Ecu1um GRanpiFLorum, Pl. XX. Vol, I. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Echium caule fruticofo; ramis calycibufque gla- Viper’s-Buglofs with a fhrubby ftem; branches 
bris; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, glaucis, gila- very {mooth; leaves between egg and lance- 
bris, margine ferrulatis; corollis fubequa- fhaped, of a fea-green colour, fmooth, and 
libus, flightly fawed at the margin; bloffoms 
nearly equal. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Empalement. : 
2. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the infertion of the chives. 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. | : 
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Tuts fhrubby fpecies of Echium was introduced, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, by Mr. F, Maffon, in 
the year 1792, from the Cape of Good Hope. It grows to the height of three feet, or more, rather 
bufhy at the top, flowers about the month of May, and perfeéts its feeds with us; by which only 
method, it is to be propagated. It thrives beft in a light loamy foil, with a {mall proportion of fandy 
peat, about one fourth. 
Profeffor Martyn, in his Miller’s Dic. has collated two defcriptions of Echiums under the titles of 
levigatum, and glabrum; the firft, No. 9, from Lin. Sp. Plant. 199; the fecond, No. 19, from Vahl. 
Symb. 3. 22. Thunberg has likewife, in his Prodromus, 33. two names of plants. as E. levigatum, 
and E. glabrum; from whom Willdenow, in his new Edition of Sp. Plant. p. 785, has copied them 
under the same titles; adding, the various fynonims, from Linnzus’s Sp. Plant. to the one; and to 
the latter, Prof. Jacquin’s {pecific of glaucophyllum, taken from his Ic. rar. 2. t. 312, and his Colle&. 
2. p.325. Now, we have little hefitation in declaring our opinion, and we think, thofe who choofe 
to compare our figure with the different defcriptions here mentioned, will coincide with us, that this 
is the plant from which they muft all have originated, except the E. glabrum of Vahl, which we take 
to be a different plant; as, the cup is defcribed hairy, the length of the tube of the bloffom ; the chives 
longer, and the flower {maller. Wherefore, we have taken, for our plant, the fpecific title of Jacquin, 
as being, in our idea, the moft appropriate. . 
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