Pulmonaria.] boraginace.e. 323 



Plant, var. lib. v. p. 170. Ger. Em. p. 808, fig. 1. P. maculosa, 

 idem. 



13. Leaves linear-lanceolate. P. azurea, Bess, Enum. Plant, vol. &c. p. 9, No. 

 205. Clusius, Hist. PI. rar. lib. v. p. 169. Pulm. 3tia Austriaca, Ger. Em. p. 

 808, fig. 3 (the satae block). Reich. Icon. vi. t. DT. fig. 694. P. mollis, Wolf. : 

 Reich. Icon. vi. t. 603, fig. 696. Curt. Bot. Mag. L. t. 2242. P. media. Host. 

 Fl. Aust. i. p. 235. Reich. Icon. vi. t. DIV. fig. 694. 



y. Flowers white. 



In woods, thickets, copses, on hedgebanks and borders of fields ; abundantly 

 but exclusively on the stifi" clay of the eocene, tertiary or freshwater deposits 

 North of the great central chalk range, and particularly in East Medina. Fl. 

 March— June. If. 



E. Med — About Ryde, plentifully. In Quarr copse. Shore copse, and in the 

 open green by Mr. Smith's new house between Quarr abbey and Fishbourne. 

 Wood between Ninham farm and the Newport road, also along the road itself, 

 sparingly. All over Firestone copse, Conibley woods,* Briddlesfurd and Chilling- 

 wood copses. Common in Whitefield wood and in those adjacent, as about 

 Koughborough, Kickhouse and Hardingshoot farms. Between E. Cowes and 

 Wootton bridge, in Brock's copse near Palmer's farm, plentifully, also about 

 Shanibler's farm. Steyn wood, near Bembiidge. Abundant in copses on the E. 

 bank of the Medina, a little above E. Cowes. 



W. Med. — Rare in this division, and only, I believe, about Newport and Cowes. 

 In a wood between Somerlon farm and the Medina. Sparingly in Gurnet copse. 

 Plentiful in and about Parkhurst forest. Miss G. Kilderbee .'.'.' 



/3. Not uncommon with the typical form. 



y. In a little copse near the Medina, by N. Fairlee, near Newport, G. Kirk- 

 patric/c, Esq. .'.'.' In this white-flowered variety the leaves are extremely narrow. 



Herb from 6 to 12 inches high, or even more. Root thick, fleshy, knotty, 

 blackish or brownish, with several stout fibres, running deep in the ground, and 

 having a tough medullary chord in the centre of each. Stems simple, leafy, suc- 

 culent and brittle, obtusely angular, slightly winged by the decurrent bases of the 

 cauline leaves, hispid with white, simple, spreading and deflexed hairs. Radical 

 leaves fascicled, much enlarged after flowering, tapering into broad, membranous, 

 winged petioles, very variable in breadth, commonly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, at other times linear-lanceolate and often very narrow ; not unfrequently they 

 are ovato-lanceolate and somewhat rounded at the base, never decidedly cordate 



* P. viri/inica, L. — " In a wood through which the road passes about two miles 

 and a half from Newport, I. of W., to Ryde, as common as Scilla nutans in our 

 woods," Mr. Griffith in Bot. Guide. 



Notwithstanding the assertion here made of the frequency of an American spe- 

 cies of Pulmonaria in the locality above mentioned, I have not succeeded in find- 

 ing any other than P. angustifolia in woods between Newport and Ryde, and 

 apprehend the introduction of the former into our Flora must have originated in 

 error. P. virginica has also been found, by another authority {Rev. Norton 

 Nicholls), apparently wild near Netley abbey, as mentioned in the ' Botanist's 

 Guide,' and from which station I have seen specimens in the Banksian herbaiium, 

 now in the British Museum. 



The wood in question, given in the Isle-of-Wight station, I imagine to be Comb- 

 ley Great Wood, as, through that and Firestone copse, the old road between New- 

 port and Ryde appears not many years since to have passed. On the present line 

 there is no wood through which it can run within the alleged distance of 2i miles 

 from Newport. I am nevertheless all but persuaded that the account of the dis- 

 covery of P. virginica is erroneous, and that it may be easily traced to the authors 

 of the Bot. Guide inadvertently .subjoining the then quite recent detection of P. 

 angustifolia in this island, by Mr. Griffith, in 1804, to their announcement of the 

 American species as being found near Southampton. 



