■i'i-i BORAGiNACE^. [Pidmonana. 



Very handsome and sLovvy plants, chiefly natives of the S. of Europe and of 

 Africa. One of the most splendid species, E. candicans, hears the ordinary win- 

 ters of this island in the open ground, and ripens seed abundantly. 



1. E. vulgare, L. Common Viper's Bugloss. Vect. Viper-grass. 

 Snake-flower. " Stem herbaceous simple hispid with tubercles, 

 leaves linear-lanceolate hispid, flowers in lateral short spikes, sta- 

 mens longer than the corolla." — Br. Fl. p. 274. E. B. i. 181. 

 E. Italicum, E. B. t. S081 (not L.) 



Tn dry waste or cultivated ground, amongst corn, on old walls, rubbish, borders 

 of fields, banks and by roadsides, in a sandy, gravelly, and especially chalky soil ; 

 also on the shingly sea-beach, but very far from general or abundant in this part 

 of the country. /"/.June — September. $. 



E. Med. — Scarcely seen about Ryde. Plentifully on Ninham hill, a heath or 

 common near Niuham farm, by Shanklin. South-east angle of Youngwood's 

 copse, also in fields between Alverstone and Bordvvood, and about Queen Buwer, 

 frequent. Shore near E. Cowes. 



W. Med. — Walls of Carisbrooke castle. Field by the road from Freshwater to 

 Alum Bay. In fields behind the heath at Colwell, where I have gathered a 

 variety with the blossoms of a beautiful and permanent rose-colour. Near 

 Kingston. 



Root tapering. Stems 1 — 3 feet in height, usually solitary, simple or branch- 

 ing only from the very base, erect, sometimes spreading or diffuse, covered with 

 white stiff hairs interspersed with long, pungent, simple bristles, each seated on a 

 brownish tubercle. Leaves all lanceolate, various in breadth, entire or obscurely 

 serrated, grayish green, very hairy, those of the root flat and tapering into short 

 petioles, of the stem linear, erect, waved, with deflexed margins, occasionally 

 broader, and soft and downy rather than hispid. Flovjers in lateral, axillary, 

 secund, recurved spikes forming a long leafy raceme, at first pinkish, afterwards 

 bright blue (sometimes while, rose-coloured, purple or violet), very handsome. 

 Sepals linear-lanceolate, as long as the tube of, but much shorter than, the entire 

 corolla, nearly equal, acute. Corolla oblique, 5-lobed, with 2 principal nerves 

 along the back, and one on each side from the lateral lobes ; tube very short. 

 Stamens (with us) much exserted, but they are liable to great variation as to 

 length ; filaments reddish ; anthers blue : upper stamen attached to a projecting 

 crest within the tube. Style long, white and hairy ; stigma small, cloven. 



This species occurs with white flowers in several parts of England, and I have 

 gathered a variety in Sussex with blossoms of a violet-colour, in this respect, and 

 in its diff"use mode of growth and broadly elliptical stem-leaves, making an 

 appro.'ich to E. violaceum, but that species has the radical leaves ovate or oblong, 

 the stem branched and destitute of tubercles. 



I understand the Viper's Bugloss is a formidable nuisance on tillage-lands in 

 Virginia, Conf. Darling. Fl. Vest. p. 119. 



VII. PcLiEONAEiA, Linn. Lungwort. 



" Calyx with 5 angles, 5-cleft. Corolla regular, funnel-shaped, 

 its throat naked. Stamens included : filaments very short. Style 

 simple. Achenes with a flat base, seated on an hypogj'nous disk, 

 free from the style." — Br. Fl. 



1. P. angustifoUa, L. Narroiv -leaved Lungivort. Cowslips of 

 Jerusalem. Vect. Blue Coivslip. " Leaves scabrous, radical ones 

 petiolate, upper ones sessile all lanceolate." — Br. Fl. p. 274. E. 

 B. xxiii. t. 1628. Curt. Br. Entom. xiii. t. et fol. 610. Reichenb. 

 Icon. vi. t. DII. fig. 69.5. Pulmonaria, V. Pannonica, Clus. Hist. 



