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short. Style simple. Nuts smooth, attached hy their trun- 

 cate base, which has a central tubercle. 



% Mebtbnsia. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. bellshaped, 

 with a short thick cylindrical tube with 5 minute protu- 

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

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

 rather drupaceous, attached laterally near their base by aflat 

 surface; seeds free. 



10. LiTHOSPBEMUM. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. funnel- 

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

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

 smooth or tubercular, stony; attached by a truncate flat base. 



11. Mtosotis. Cal. 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 

 minute lateral spot near their base. — Distinguished from all 

 the other genera by the convolute corolla. 



Tribe I. Cynoglossem. 



1. AsPEEtr'so Linn. Madwort. 



tl. A. prociim'bens (L.). — E. B. 661. — St. procumbent, angu- 

 lar, rough, with short deflexed bristles. L. oblong, rough, 

 hispid, lower ones stalked, upper sessile. Fl. small, axillary, 

 solitary, blue, upon short peduncles. Oa). of the fr. much en- 

 larged. — Rich waste ground, rare. A. VI. VII. E. S. 



[_Echinospermum Lap'pula (Lehm.), a plant closely resembling 

 a Myosotis, was found for 2 years on the shingle at Southwold, 

 SuflF,, in small quantity. — A. VI.] 



2. CnroGLOs'strM Linn. Hound's-tongue. 



1. C. officindle (L.) ; 1. downy acute, lower 1. elliptic contract- 

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

 half-clasping. — E. B. 921. — About 2 feet high. Covered with 

 soft adpressed hairs. Cor. dull crimson, veiny ; veins disap- 

 pearing in drying. Nuts flat in front, and there surrounded by 

 a thickened prominent margin. Fetid, rarely subglabrous 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 

 into a long petiole, upper I. lanceolate slightly narrowed below 



