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blue, remarkably handsome. — Dry places. B. VI. VII. Viper's 
Bugloss. 
2. E. violaceum (L.) ; pilose-hispid, st. erect branched diffuse, 
lower branches prostrate, radical 1. oblong-ovate stalked, stem I. 
oblong narrowed from a cordate half clasping base with lateral 
ribs, spikes panicled elongate simple, stam. scarcely longer than 
the corolla. — E. B. S. 2798. Lycopsis Ray. — Stam. very unequal, 
1 short, 2 intermediate, and 2 longer. Fl. violet-blue. Hairs 
rising from minute tubercles. Root reddish ; it stains the paper 
in the herb, deep violet. — Jersey. B. VI. — IX. O. 
9. PuLMONARIA Linn. 
1. P. officinalis (L.) ; 1. ovate roundish or cordate, upper 1. 
obiong. — E. B. 118. — Whole plant more or less hispid. Fl. 
purple. L. often spotted. — Woods and thickets, rare. P. V. 
Lungwort. E. S.? 
2. P. angitstifolia (L.) ; 1. all lanceolate.— E. B. 1628.— More 
pubescent than the last, but scarcely distinguishable as a species. 
— Woods in Hampshire. P. V. VI. E. 
10. Steenhammera Reich. 
1. S. maritima (R.) ; st. procumbent branched, 1. ovate acute 
rough with callous dots glabrous fleshy glaucous, nuts smooth. 
— Lithospermum Sm. E. B. 368. — Fl. in racemes, purplish-blue. 
Nuts closely converging. L. with a flavour resembling that of 
oysters. Differing more in habit, in which " it is sui-generis," 
than in character from Lithospermum. — Northern sea-shores. 
P. V. VI. 
11. Lithospermum Linn. 
1. L. officinale (L.) ; st. erect much branched, 1. lanceolate 
acute veined hispid with tubercles and adpressed bristles above 
hairy beneath, throat of the cor. with minute scales within, nuts 
smooth. — E. B. 134. — Fl. greenish-yellow. Nuts gray, highly 
polished, stony, 2 or 3 ripening in each calyx. Root whitish. — 
This is the only true Lithospermum according to Spenner, none 
of the other species having a crown of scales in the throat of the 
corolla. — Dry and stony places. P. VI. — VIII. Gromwell. 
2. L. purpureo-ccernleum (L.) ; barren st. prostrate creeping 
the others erect 2 — 3-fid above, 1. lanceolate acute hispid : hairs 
adpressed tubercular on the upper side, cor. much longer than 
the calyx, nuts smooth. — E. B. 117 — Fl. large, bright blue. 
Nuts " silvery white, highly polished, slightly rugged," rarely 
produced. — This species and the following have no scales in the 
throat of the cor. but merely 5 longitudinal downy folds. They 
belong to the genus Rhytispermum Link, Spenn. — Thickets on a 
limestone soil, rare. P. V, — VII. E. 
