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going, from a few inches to near a foot high, with a spreading tuft 
of radical leaves, and a few erect ones along the stem. Flowers 
small and nearly sessile; the calyx-segments quite closed over the 
fruit after flowering; the corolla small, at first pale yellow, and turn- 
ing blue as it fades. 
On banks, in meadows and pastures, in central and southern Europe 
and western Asia, extending northwards into Scandinavia. Abundant 
in Britain. Il. spring. 
VI. ANCHUSA. ALKANET. 
Coarse, hairy biennials or perennials, with rather large blue flowers, 
in l1-sided spikes, with a bract under each flower. Calyx deeply 
5-cleft. Corolla with a straight tube, often slightly enlarged at the 
top, and closed at the mouth by usually hairy scales ; the limb spread- 
ing and 5-lobed. Stamens included in the tube. Nuts rather large, 
wrinkled, angular, attached by their broad, concave base. 
The species are numerous in southern Europe and western Asia, a 
very few extending far to the north. 
Leaves lanceolate. Flowers in terminal forked panicles . . IL. A. ogicinalis. 
‘Leaves broadly ovate. Flowers in short axillary spikes . . 2 A. sempervireis. 
1. A. officinalis,’ Linn. (fig. 704). Common A.—A biennial, about 
2 feet high, with coarse, stiff hairs; the root thick and hard. Radical 
leaves long and stalked; the lower stem-leaves lanceolate, broad and 
narrow, from 2 to 5 or 6 inches long; the upper ones gradually 
smaller. The 1-sided forked spikes lengthen considerably as the 
flowering advances, and form a kind of terminal panicle. Flowers 
nearly sessile, with a small, leafy bract at the base of each; the calyx 
very ‘stiffly hairy, with narrow divisions; the corolla of a rich blue, 
and rather large, but varies in size. 
In waste places, on roadsides, &c., all over the continent of Europe, 
except the extreme north, and eastward to the Caucasus. In Britain 
only on ballast hills, and very rare. Fl. summer. 
2. A. sempervirens, Linn. (fig. 705). Green A.—Stock perennial, 
the stems more straggling than those of 4A. officinalis, but covered 
with the same coarse, stiff hairs. Leaves broadly ovate ; the flowers 
in 1-sided, short spikes, leafy at the base, and placed in the axils of 
the stem-leaves. Corolla of a rich blue, with a shorter tube than in 
A. officinalis. Nuts expanded at the base on the inner side into a 
small convex appendage. 
In waste places, on roadsides, &c., in western Europe, scarcely ex- 
tending eastward along the Mediterranean, and not reaching the 
Rhine. Scattered over several parts of Britain, but not truly wild. 
Fl. spring and summer. 
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VII. LYCOPSIS. BUGLOSS. 
A small European and north Asiatic genus, distinguished from 
Anchusa by the curved tube of the corolla. The species are all an- 
nuals, with small flowers, 
1, L. arvensis, Linn. (fig. 706). Small B.—A coarse, spreading 
