238 54. BOKAGINACEiE. 



berances in its throat. Stam. protruded beyond the throat ; 

 filaments rather long. Style simple. Nuts smooth, inflated, 

 rather drupaceous, attached laterally near their base hy a fiat 

 surface ; seeds free. 



11, LlTHOSPEKMUM. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Oor. fiinnel- 

 ahaped ; throat naked or with 5 minute scales. Stam. in- 

 cluded in tube ; filaments' very short. Style simple. Nuts 

 smooth or tubercular, stony, attached hy a truncate fiat base. 



12. Myosotis. Oal. 5-parted. Cor. convolute in the bud, 

 salvershaped ; throat closed with scales ; limb 5-fid, blunt. 

 Stam. included ; filaments very short. Style simple. Nuts 

 smooth, convex externally, keeled within, attached by a mi- 

 nute lateral spot near their base. — Distinguished from all 

 the other genera hy the convolute corolla. 



Tribe I. Cynoglossece. 

 1. Aspeetj'go Linn. Madwort. 



tl. A. procum'bens (L.) — St. procumbent, angular, rough, 

 with short decurved bristles. L. oblong, rough, hispid, lower 

 ones stalked, upper sessile. Fl. small, axillary, solitary, blue, 

 upon short pedimcles. Cal. of the fr. much enlarged. — Rich 

 waste ground, rare. A. VI. VII. E. S. 



2. EcHns-osPERMTrM Sw. 



[ E Lap'pula fLehm.) ; st. branched above, 1. lanceolate ad- 

 pressed-hairy, cor. exceeding the calyx, fr.-st. erect, nuts with 

 a double series of barbed spines on the margins the disk and 

 sides tubercled. — St. 4-3. 16. — St. and 1. covered vsdth adpressed 

 hairs giving them a silky appearance. Closely resembling a 

 Myosotis. — -Upon shingle, Southwold, Suft'., and elsewhere near 

 the sea, in small quantity ; introduced. — A. VT.] E. 



3. CrNOGLOs'sTiM: Linn. Hound's-tongue. 



1. C. offidndle (L.) ; 1. dovmy acute, lower 1. elliptic contract- 

 ing into a petiole, upper I. lanceolate narroived below subcordate 

 half-clasping. — About 2 feet high. Cor. dull crimson, veiny; 

 veins disappearing in ,diying. Nuts flat in front, and there sur- 

 rounded by a thickened prominent margin. Fetid, rarely sub- 

 glabrous and nearly scentless. — Waste ground. B. VI. VII 



E. S. I. 



2. C. montdnum (Lam.) ; I. slightly hairy acute nearly gla- 

 brous and shining above rough beneath, inferior oblong narrowed 



