576 



THE BOEAGE FAMILY. 



Fig. 686. 



spreading into a broad-campanulate 

 throat, with a very oblique limb ; the 

 lower lobes rather longer than the 

 longest stamens. 



In waste places, chiefly near the sea, 

 in southern Europe, and extending up 

 the western coasts to the Channel Is- 

 lands. Fl. summer. 



II. LUNGWORT. PULMOKA.RIA. 



Perennial herbs, with a creeping rootstock and rather large blue or 

 purple flowers. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed or cleft to the 

 middle only. Corolla with a straight tube open at the mouth, without 

 scales, and a spreading, 5-lobed limb. Stamens included in the tube. 

 Nuts smooth. 



A European genus, limited to a very few species. 



1. Common Lungwort. Pulmonaria officinalis, Linn. 



(Fig. 087.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 118.) 



Radical leaves in distinct tufts, ovate-oblong or nearly linear, on long 

 footstalks, and coarsely hairy, usually much spotted. Flowering stems 

 from 6 inches to a foot high, with shorter, alternate, mostly sessile 

 leaves, the lowest sometimes reduced to scales. Flowers in a terminal 

 forked cyme. Calyx very hairy, little more than 4 lines long at the 

 opening of the flower, but twice that length when in fruit, the teeth or 

 lobes not reaching to the middle. Limb of the corolla broadly spread- 

 ing, with short lobes. 



In woods, in central and southern Europe to the Caucasus, extend- 

 ing northwards into Scandinavia. Rare in Britain, the only really 



