LITHOSPEKMTJM. MTOSOTIS. 
2\il 
acute rough with hard dots glabrous fleshy glaucous, nuts 
smooth. — Lithospenmim Sm., E. B. 361. Stenhammaria Fr.— ^ 
Spreading, very glaucous. Fl. in racemes, purplish blue. Pro- 
tuberances in throat of cor. yellow. L. tastmg like oysters. 
Nuts free, fomiing a pyramid, exceeding the calyx. Pericarp 
membranous; seeds smaller than the cavitj'. — Northern sea- 
shores. P. v.— vm. E. S. L 
11. LiTHosPEE'imi Linn. Gromwell. 
1. L. officinale (L.) ; st. erect much branched, 1. lanceolate 
acute veined hispid with bulbous adpressed bristles above hairy 
beneath, throat of the cor. with a crown of scales, nuts smooth. 
—E.B. 134.— St. 12—18 in. high. Fl. greenish yellow. Nuts 
gray, highly polished, stony, 2 or 3 ripening in each calyx. 
Root whitish. — Dry and stony places. P. VI. — VIII. Grom- 
well. E. S. I. 
2. L. purpureo-ccernleum (L.) ; barren shoots prostrate creep- 
ing, fl.-st. erect forked, 1. lanceolate acute hispid, hairs on the 
upper side adpressed bulbous, cor. much exceeding the calj'X, 
nuts smooth. — E. B. 117. — Fl. large, bright blue. Nuts " silvery 
white, highly polished, slightly rugged," rarely produced. — Thig 
species and the following have no scales in the throat of the cor., 
but merely 5 longitudinal downy folds, and belong to the genus 
Khytispermum link.' — Thickets on a limestone soil, rare, P. V. 
— vn. R 
3. L. arven'se (L.) ; st. erect branched, 1. lanceolate rather 
acute hispid with adpressed bulbous haii-s on both sides, cor. 
rather exceeding the calyx, 7iuts tubercled. — E. B. 123. — St. 1 ft. 
high. Fl. small, white. Nuts pale brown, polished, pitted, 
3 or 4 perfected in each calyx. Root bright red. — Corn-fields. 
A. v.— vn. Corn Gromwell. E. S. L 
12. Mtoso'tis Linn. Scorpion-grass. 
i. Persistentes. Cal. of fruit shorter than its stalk. 
* Hau's on cal. all straight and adpressed. 
1. 3L palm'tris (With.) ; fr.-cal. open, its teeth short tri- 
angular, cor.-limb llat longer than the tube, its lobes slightly 
emarginate, style about equalling cal., pubescence of st. (mually^ 
spreading. ~E. B. 1973. <S^. 42. 2. — L. blimtish, apiculate. St. 
angular owing to the prominent decuiTent lines from the margins 
of the leaves. Raceme quite leafless. Cor. large, bright blue 
with a yeUow eye. Cal. divided about ^ down. — ^. 3f. striyu- 
losa (R.) ; slenderer more erect, st. not angiilar its pubescence 
adpressed, 1. less blunt, style equalling cor.-tube. St. 42. 3. 
Base of st. sometimes patently hairy. — Ditches and wateiy 
places. P. VI.— VIII. ^. VI. Forget-me-not. E. S. I. 
