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P L A T E CLIV. 



E C II I U M A R G E N T E U M. 



Silvery -leaved Viper s-Buglofs, 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 

 VENTANBRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER 

 CoKOLLA iirfguhiris, fauce nudi. 



Blossom irregular, nioiuh naked. 



See EcHiuM grandiflorum, PI. XX. Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Echium foliis lanceolalis, acutis, lericeo-villofis; 

 fpicis tcrminalibusj corolla violaceaj fubae- 

 qualia. 



Viper's- buglofs with lance-fliaped leaves, lliarp- 

 pointed and filkily-liairy; fpikes terminate 

 the branches; blollora violet colour, nearly 

 equal. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining attached. 



3. The Seed-buds, Shaft, and Summit. 



This fine fpecies of Echium, was railed from feeds received from the Cape of Good Hope in the 

 year 1789, at the nurfery, Hammerfmith: where our drawing was made, laft year, from a plant which 

 had been planted in the open ground, for the lummer months; and where it had grown to the height 

 of four feet. It is a hardy green-houfe plant, and grows beft in light eartli, either peat, or leaf 

 mould; and flowers about July. It is as difficult to propagate as either, the E. grandiflorum, or E. 

 ferociflimum; but only to be increafed, like them, by cuttings. 



