118 PENTAXDRIA MONOGYNIA 



1. L. ARTEXsr., L. Hispiilly pilose ; loaves lance-linear, rather acute, 



nerveless; nuts rugose. Beck, Bot. />. 251. 



Field Lithospkiimum. Vulgo— Stone weed, 



(lattice — Grc'mil des champs. Germanicv — Der Stcinsame. 



Whole plant hispid with short rather appresscd hairs. Root annual. Stem 12 

 to 16 inches high, generally much branched from the root, and often branched near 

 the summit. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, and a quarter to a third of an inch wide, 

 sessile, lance-linear, acute, narrowed a little at base, with a midrib but no lateral 

 nerves ; the lower leaves often oblanceolate and obtuse. Flowers solitary, axilla- 

 ry, subsessile. Calyx-segments linear, acute, hispid-ciliate, at length elongated. 

 Corolla yellowish or milk-white, rather small. Nuts ovoid, acuminate, beak a lit- 

 tle oblique, surface rugose and cellular, brown when mature. 



Hub. Pastures, and grain fields : frequent. Fl. May. Fr June. 



Obs. An introduced, worthless plant* Five or six additional species are enume- 

 rated in the U. States. 



87. BATSCHIA. Gmelin. Jfutt. Gen. 171. Not of Thunb. & Wittd. 

 [Named in honor of John George JJutsch ; a German Botanist.] 



Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla large, salver-form ; limb nearly flat, 

 orbicular, with 5 rounded lobes ; throat naked ; tube straight, longer 

 than the calyx, closed at base by a bearded ling. Nuts imperforate at 

 base, smooth, shining. 



I. B. canescens, Mx. Stem villose ; leaves lance-oblong, rather 



obtuse, silky-pubescent above, subvillose beneath ; tube of the corolla 



nearly twice as long as the calyx. Beck, Bot. p. 252. Icon, Mx, Am. 



1. tab. 14. Also, Bart. Am. 2, tab. 58. 



Anchusa virginica. Wittd. Sp. 1. p. 758. 



A. canescens. Muhl. Catal. p. 19. 



liithospermum canescens. Torr. Fl. 1 p. 203. FJusd. Camp. p. 100. 



Lindl. Encij. p. 120. 



Hoary Batschia. Vulgo — Puccoon. Alkanet. 



Root perennial, large, red. Stem about a foot high, several from the same root, 

 nearly simple, sometimes trichotomously branched near the summit, clothed with 

 hoary spreading hairs. Leaves about an inch and half long, and half an inch wide, 

 with a midrib but no lateral nerves, sessile, lance-oblong, or sometimes linear- 

 elliptic, obtuse, occasionally minutely emarginate (slightly mueronate, Torr.— 

 which I do not observe in my specimens); l>oih surfaces covered with apprtsst-d 

 hairs, villous along the midrib beneath. Flowers axillary, crowded near the sum- 

 mit of the stems, or branches. Calyx segments lance-linear, acute, villosc-ciliate, 

 scarcely half as long as the corolla. Corolla bright orange-yellow, pubescent ex- 

 ternally; tube striate, with a slight pubescent ring on the inside, at the bottom. 

 Stamens subsessile in the throat of the corolla. Style scarcely half as long as the 

 tube of the corolla. Nuts ovoid, hard and smooth. 



Ilab. Great Valley, near Brooke's Mill : rare. FL May. Fr. June. 



Obs. This handsome little plant was detected in the above locality by Mr. Geo 

 W. Hall, in 1833. He has also found it, once, near Wagon -town; but it is quite 

 rare. The root of it is called Puccoon, by the Aborigines; and is used by them 

 for painting red. One other species occurs in the V. States. 



