66 Batschia canescens. 



Plant from eight to twelve inches high. Root perennial, yielding 

 a blood-red juice on fracture or compression. Stem cylindrical, erect, 

 villous. Leaves erect, alternate, crowded towards the top of the stem, 

 where they grow shorter; lanceolate-oval, obtuse below; lanceolate- 

 obtuse higher upon the stem— and lanceolate, falcate, sub-acute near 

 the flowers— all entire, sericeously canescent on either disk. Costa 

 particularly villous, and without collateral nerves. Flowers corym- 

 bose, pedunculate. Calix with subulate segments, villous at the bottom. 

 Corolla yellow. Tube funnel-form, fulvous. Limb spreading, cam- 

 panulate. Segments rounded. Stamens short, included. Grows from 

 Virginia to Georgia. On dry sunny hills in sandy soil in Virginia and 

 Tennessee, Pursh. Flowering time June and July. Pursh mentions 

 " that the root is covered with a red substance, which he remarks is 

 the true Puccoon of the Indians, and paints a beautiful red." 



The genus Batschia was so named by Gmelin in honour of a distin- 

 guished botanist, whose name it commemorates. It comprises plants 

 previously referred to Anchusa, which together with some newly dis- 

 covered species amount to four in number. Mr. Nuttall remarks, that 

 the roots of the whole genus yield a crimson lac. 



The table represents a flowering specimen of the plant of the size 

 of nature. 



