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recent introduction as is generally supposed, for Mr. BoiTer tells rae he has 

 noticed it upwards of forty years ago. Bertoloni and others certainly mention Clo- 

 ver has a plant to which C. Epithymum is attached, without allusion to any vari. 

 alien of structure. The question thus arises, Does C. Epithymum sometimes 

 grow on Clover with us, and is there a second species more peculiarly allotted to 

 the plant, or is this latter a mere variety or modification of the former, sometimes 

 scarcely deviating from the typical form of our heaths and commons ? 



The agreeable honey-like smell of C. Epithymum gives place, when the'flowers 

 are going oflf, to a rank disagreeable odour, as Mr. Borrer remarked to me of the 

 Clover Dodder. 



A fourth species, C. Epilinum, very injurious to flax-fields on the Continent, 

 has latterly found a place in the ' British Flora.' H. C. Watson, Esq., has sent 

 me a specimen found by him near London. May it not also occur on our nearly 

 allied L. anyustifolium P 



Order LIIl. BORAGINACE^, DeCand. 



" Calyx 5-, rarely A-cleft, persistent. Corolla hj'pogynous, mo- 

 nopetalous, most frequently regular, 5 -cleft, sometimes 4 -cleft, 

 with imbricated fEstivation. Stamens 5, inserted into the corolla, 

 alternate with its segments and equal to them in number, rarely 

 more. Ovary 4 -partite, 4-seeded. Ovules definite, pendulous. 

 Style from near the base between the lobes of the ovary. Achenes 

 4, apart or united at the base. Seeds without or nearly without 

 albumen. Radicle superior. — Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 without stipides, usually scabroua. Flowers generally in more or 

 less compound unilateral and circinate cymes {presenting the 

 appearance of spikes or racemes." — Br. Fl. 



I. Cynoglossum, Linn. Hound's-tongue. 



" Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla (short) funnel-shaped, its mouth closed 

 with prominent, convex, connivent scales. Stamens included 

 within the corolla. Achenes roundish ovate, depressed, muri- 

 cated, fixed by the edge to tJie persistent base of the style." — 

 Br. Fl. 



1. C. officinale, L. Common Hound' s -tongue. " Lower leaves 

 elliptical stalked softly downy, upper ones lanceolate narrowed 

 below subcordate and semiamplexicaul, racemes without bracteas." 

 —Br. Fl. p. 281. E. B. t. 931. 



/3. Leaves subglabrous, more or less shining, nearly scentless. Herat, Nouv. 

 Fl. des Env. de Par. var. C. p. 73. C. Haenckii, R. et Sch. Syst. iv. p. 74 ? 



On dry waste ground, banks and pastures, along hedges, walls, amongst ruins, 

 rubbish and by roadsides ; frequent. Fl. May — July. Fr. August. <? ; occa- 

 sionally 71, M. ^ K. 



On the Dover, Ryde, occasionally ; and on the shore beyond Sea-view. Very 

 common in some parts of Undercliff, as at Ventnor, Bonchurch, St. Lawrence. 

 Near Dog Kennel. 



0. On the right-hand bank of the steep descent into Bonchurch from Shanklin. 

 At St. Lawrence, and especially at Bank-end, by the roadside. At Dodpits. 



