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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I, Common Vipers Buglofs. 
Echium vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres. 
The firft leaves He upon the ground in a round 
clufter: they are oblong, moderately broad, of a 
dun<y green, and covered with rough hairs. 
I'he (lalk is round, upright, and a foot and 
half high : it is not much branched ; and its 
ground-colour is a bright green ; but it is ufually 
Ipotted very beautifully with red, and is very 
hai^y. 
The leaves are placed alternately on it i and 
they are oblong and narrow, ot a pale green, 
hairy, and fliarp-pointcd ; and there ufually ftand 
many young ones in their bofoms. 
The flowers are large, numerous, and of a very 
fine blue, widi more or lefs tinge of redifh- or 
purplifh as they are more or lefs opened. The 
flyle in the middle is white, and the buttons on 
the threads in the flower are red. 
Thefe flowers are placed in feveral f ries along 
the tops of the fl:aiks upon flendcr, bending, or 
curling branches. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Echium vuJgare ^ a name 
copied by mort; others. 
2. Wall-Buglofs. 
Echium murale. 
The root is long, flender, and furnllhed with 
a few fi:raggling fibres. 
The Italk is round, upright, a foot or more 
in height, and very much branched. 
The leaves are placed alternately, and have 
no footftalks : they are oblong, broad at the bafe, 
fnialltr all the way to the point, of a pale green, 
and hairy. 
The flowers fl:and in confiderable number at 
the extremities of the branches ^ and they are 
large, and of a beautiful blue. 
1 he feeds are irregularly fhaped and pointed. 
DIVISION II. 
African fiirubby Echium. 
Echium Africamm fruticofu7n. 
The root is woody and fpreading. 
The fl:em is firm, hard, woody, and divided 
into many branches. 
The leaves are placed irregularly ; and they 
are very numerous ; they are oblong, narrow, 
and of a beautiful green. 
It is a native of our fca-coafl:s ; where it grows 
on the barren beach, on recks, and from the 
walls made to keep in the fea. It flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lycopfis 5 a name moft 
others have followed. Some, Ecbii nllera fpecies. 
3. Small-flowered Wall Buglofs. 
Echium ramofum fore farvo. 
The root is long and flender. 
The fl:alk is round, upright, hairy, divided 
into many branches, and of a pale green colour. 
Thfi leaves are placed irregularly on it ; and 
they have all the rudiments of branches in their 
bofoms in the lower part, and long fiioots in 
the upper. 
The flowers ftand at the extremities of the 
branches ; and are fmali, and of a purplifh co- 
lour. 
It is common about our fouthern coafl:s, and 
flowers in Augufl:, 
Ray calls it Echium alterum^ f,ve Lycoffis An- 
glica. 
4. Sea-Buglofs. 
Bughffam maritimum procumbens. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung 
with a few fl:raggling fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, and they lie in great 
part upon the ground : they are round, of a pale 
green, and not much branched. 
The leaves are placed alternately : they are ob- 
long, broadeft in the middle, fliarp-pointed, and 
joined to the ftalk by a narrow bafe. 
The flowers fl:and in confiderable number at 
the tops of the branches ; and fome rife alfo from 
the bofoms of the leaves : they are fmall and 
blue. 
The feeds are roundifli, but pointed, and of a, 
pale brown. 
We have It about our fouthern coafts. IC 
flowers in Augufl:. 
Ray calls it Echium inarinum. 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown. 
The flowers fl;and at the tops of the branches ; 
and they are large and beautiful: their general 
Colour is a fine fky-biue ; but they are red ac 
the bottom. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July. 
Van Royen and others call it Echium caulefru- 
ticofo. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
2 
GENUS 
