BORAGINEffi. 



577 



wild stations appearing to be in Hamp- 

 shire and the Isle of Wight. Fl. spring. 

 The British specimens belong to a va- 

 riety with narrow leaves, rarely spotted, 

 usually distinguished as a species under 

 the name of P. angustifolia (Eng. Bot. 

 t. 1628), but in many parts of the Conti- 

 nent the two forms pass very gradually 

 one into the other. The broad-leaved 

 variety, here figured, has been long cul- 

 tivated in cottage-gardens, and has 

 strayed into adjoining woods in some 

 parts of the country. 



Fig. 687. 



III. MERTENSIA. MEKTENSIA. 



Perennial herbs, nearly glabrous, differing from Lungwort in their 

 short, open, deeply 5-cleft calyx, in the stamens protruding slightly 

 from the tube of the corolla although shorter than the limb, and in 

 their slightly fleshy nuts. 



Besides the British species there are several nearly allied to it from 

 North America and Siberia. 



1. Sea Mertensia. Mertensia maritima, Don. (Fig. 688.) 



(Pulmonaria, Eng. Bot. t. 368.) 



A procumbent, leafy perennial, almost succulent, covered with a 

 glaucous bloom. Leaves obovate, entire, rather thick, and often wavy ; 

 the lower ones stalked, the upper ones sessile. Elowers rather small, 

 of a beautiful purple-blue, forming a loose terminal cyme ; the pedicels 

 nearly 6 lines long. Segments of the calyx ovate, very broad after 

 flowering, but scarcely longer than the nuts. 



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