222 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



and other mountain ranges, but not everywhere in Switzerland ; 

 Western Asia, N.W. India, N. Africa. A weed of cultivation^in 

 parts of Britain. 



Lycopsis L. 

 Lycopsis arvensis L. Small Bugloss. 



A coarse annual covered with small, stiff hairs. Stems branched, 

 i-i J feet. Leaves lanceolate, sinuate and often toothed. Flowers in 

 terminal spikes (usually forked). Corolla pale blue, small, with the 

 tube curved in the middle. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Nuts wrinkled 

 as in Anckusa. 



Sandy fields and waste places from the plains to the lower 

 Swiss Alps (at 5000 feet near Zinal). June to August. 



Distribution. — ^Europe, N. Asia, N. America and other parts 

 of the world where introduced by cultivation. British. 



PULMONARIA L. 



Perennial herbs with rather large blue or purple flowers. Calyx 

 tubular-campanulate, 5-cleft. Corolla with a straight tube, without 

 scales, and a spreading 5-lobed limb. Nuts smooth. 



A very small European genus. 



Pulmonaria angustifolia L. {P. azurea Bess.). 



Stems 6-12 inches high, erect, leafy. Leaves not spotted. Radi- 

 cal leaves lanceolate, 8-10 times as broad as long, lengthened into a 

 broadly- winged leaf-stalk ; stem-leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 sessile, the lower ones slightly attenuated at the base, the upper 

 ones amplexicaul. Leaves and calyx covered with short, spreading 

 and glandular hairs. Corolla reddish at first, and then a deep 

 azure-blue, flowers in short racemes. Calyx cylindrical, cleft to the 

 middle, teeth lanceolate-acute. Calyx pendent after flowering. 

 A very beautiful plant. 



Bushy Alpine places up to 6500 feet ; local. 



Distribution. — Eastern, Central, and Western Alps ; Pyrenees, 

 Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor. 



Pulmonaria officinalis L. Lungwort. 



Stems 6-18 inches high, with alternate, mostly sessile leaves. 

 Root-leaves ovate-oblong on long footstalks, coarsely hairy and 

 often much spotted. Calyx very hairy, much increasing in length 

 after flowering, the lobes barely reaching the middle. Flowers in a 

 terminal-forked cyme. Limb of corolla broadly spreading, with 

 short lobes. Flowers dull rose-coloured, then blue-violet, though 

 sometimes remaining rose or white. 



Hedge-banks and woods in the plains and sub-Alps. April, May. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe to the Caucasus, 

 extending northward to Scandinavia; rare in Britain. 



