590 



THE BORAGE FAMILY. 



Fig. 704. 



Leaves lanceolate, or often the radica. 

 and lowest ones oblong, stalked, and 

 sometimes near a foot long ; the others gra- 

 dually shorter, with shorter stalks, the 

 uppermost sessile and clasping the stem : 

 all of them hoary with a dense, rather 

 soft, appressed down. Hacemes nume- 

 rous, mostly simple, forming a terminal 

 leafy panicle ; the pedicels short, with- 

 out bracts. Calyx segments broadly 

 lanceolate. Corolla rather small, of a 

 dull purplish-red. Nuts flattened and 

 bur-like, often above 3 lines diameter. 

 The whole plant has a disagreable smell. 

 On roadsides and waste places, in Eu- 

 rope and Russian Asia, extending far into 

 Scandinavia. Not unfrequent in Eng- 

 land and Ireland, but becoming rare in 

 Scotland. Fl. summer. 



2. Green Hound's-tongue. Cynoglossum montanum, Linn. 



(Fig. 705.) 



(C. sylvaticum, Eng. Bot. t. 1642.) 



Much like the common H., but gene- 

 rally not so stout, much greener; the 

 hairs of the leaves fewer, more scattered, 

 and stiffer ; the upper leaves broader at 

 the base, and the spikes more slender, 

 with fewer and smaller flowers, of a dull 

 bluish -purple tinge. 



In woods and shady places, chiefly in 

 the forests and mountain districts of the 

 continent of Europe, extending eastward 

 to the Caucasus. Not common in Bri- 

 tain, occurring in the southern and some 

 of the central or eastern counties of Eng- 

 land, rare in Ireland, and not known in 

 Scotland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 705. 



