PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Echium. 51 



IVaste or cultivated ground, road sides. Near the Parks. Sb. Side 

 of the Banbury road going from the Parks to Summer Town. Bx. 



Bien. May. 



Plant succulent, mucilaginous, hispid, with sharp, white bristles. 

 Fl. bright blue, bunches terminal, drooping. Ls. alternate, egg- 

 shaped, wavy, lower ones broadest, stalked. Cor. valves and 

 anthers black. 

 Originally from Aleppo : the juice affords nitre. Ls. used in cool 



tankards : young ones in salad. Dodonseus recommends such 



kind of salad to exhilarate the mind ; this agrees with the old 



adage : Ego Borago gaudia semper ago : quaintly translated by Ge- 



rarde : " I Borage bring alwaies courage." 



LYCOPSIS.' Bugloss. 



L. arvensis. Small B. Leaves spear-shaped, wavy, 

 somewhat toothed, very bristly, with bulbous hairs. 

 Stalks of the flowers and fruit erect. Limb of the 

 corolla slightly unequal. E. B. 938. C. 5. I7. 

 Buglossa sylvestris minor. G. E. 799- 



Fields, waste grounds, dry banks. 



An. June. 



Stem upright, leafy. Ls. alternate, stem-clasping at the base, 

 except the root ones. Fl. in terminal, rolled back, paired 

 spikes. Cor. tube and valves white, limb bright blue. Seeds 

 four, vertical, angular. 



E'CHIUM.^ Viper's-bugloss. 



E. vulgar e. Common Viper* s-h. Stem bristly, with 

 warts. Stem-leaves spear-shaped, bristly, single- 

 ribbed. Spikes from the side of the stem, bending 

 down arch-wise. E. B. 181. G. E. 802. 



Fields, waste ground, sandy or gravelly soil ; old walls, rubbish. Shot- 

 over Hill. Abundant between Gibraltar and Tackley. Bx, 



Bien. June. 



Stem strong, erect. Ls. root ones stalked, gi'owing in a starry 

 form. Fl. clusters bent back, as the flowers open erect. Fl. 

 buds red. Cor. purple, then bright blue, large : sometimes 



white. 



A remarkably handsome plant, when in flower. The name 



from its blue flowers corrupted by the vulgar into Blue-glass, for 



Bugloss. Bees very fond of the flowers. 



> Differing from Anchusa in the curvature of its tube. H. Gr. Wolf's face. 

 2 From Echis, Gr. a viper. From its supposed virtue against the bite of the 

 viper. 



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