THE BOKAGE FAMILY. 



Fig. 702. 



pedicels, drooping, of a clear blue 

 or sometimes white ; the dark anthers 

 very prominent in the centre. 



In waste grounds, indigenous to the 

 east Mediterranean region, but, long 

 cultivated in European gardens, it has 

 become naturalized in many parts of 

 central and western Europe, and is 

 said to be fully established in several 

 counties of England. Fl. all summer. 



X. ASPERUGO. ASPERUGO. 



A single species, allied to Alkanet, but universally admitted as a 

 genus on account of the peculiar calyx and habit. 



1. German Asperugo. Asperugo procumbens, Linn. 

 (Fig. 703.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 661. Madwort.) 



A weak procumbent annual, rough with short, stiff, almost prickly 

 hairs, many of them curved or hooked so as to be very adhesive. Leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate, narrowed at the base, the lower ones stalked, 

 those under the flowers often nearly opposite. Flowers small and 

 blue, 1 to 3 together in the axils of the upper leaves, on very short, 

 recurved pedicels. The broadly campanulate calyx enlarges imme- 

 diately after flowering, becomes much flattened, veined, and divided to 

 the middle into 5 lanceolate lobes, with 1 or 2 small ones between 

 each. Corolla that of a very small Alkanet. Nuts ovoid, with a granu- 

 lated surface. 



