LYCO'PSIS* * 
Linnean Class and Order. Penta'ndriaI, Mo.xogv'nia. 
Natural Order. Boragi'.ne/E, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 128. — Sm. 
Grain, of Bot. p. 102. — Lindl. Syn. p. 163; Introd. to Nat. Syst. 
p. 241. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 440. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 527. — 
Asperifo'lde, Linn. Gen. PI. 6th edit. — Sm. Engl. FI. v. i. p. 
247. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, monosepalous (of 1 sepal), 
deeply divided into 5, oblong, pointed, upright, or somewhat 
spreading segments, permanent. Corolla (figs. 2 & 3) mono- 
petalous (of 1 petal), funnel-shaped; Tube cylindrical, doubly 
bent, the mouth closed with 5 blunt, convex, hairy, approaching 
valves ; Limb in 5 rather deep, rounded segments, sometimes 
slightly irregular. Filaments 5, very small, within the tube, at 
its uppermost curvature. Anthers oblong, incumbent. Germens 
(fig. 4.) 4. Style (fig. 4.) thread-shaped, as long as the stamens. 
Stigma blunt, notched. Seeds (figs. 5 & 6) 4, egg-shaped, angu- 
lar, with a bordered scar, attached to the base of the enlarged 
swelling calyx. 
The funnel-shaped corolla with a doubly bent tube, the mouth 
closed with concave, blunt valves, and the seeds concave at the 
base, will distinguish this from other genera with a monopetalous, 
inferior corolla, and four (apparently) naked seeds, in the same 
class and order. 
One species British. 
LYCO'PSIS ARVE'NSIS. Small Bugloss. 
Spec. Char. Leaves spear-shaped, wavy, somewhat toothed, 
very bristly. Calyx upright while in flower. Limb of the corolla 
slightly unequal. 
Eng. Bot. t. 938. — Curl. FI. T.ond. t. 336. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 199. — Huds. FI. 
Angl. (2nd edit.) p. 82. — Sm. FI. Biil. v. i. p. 221. Eng. FI. v. i. p.267. — 
With. (7th edit.) v. ii. p. 286. — Lindl. Syn. p. 165. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 82. — 
Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 135.— Sibtli. FI. Oxon. p. 71. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf p. 43. 
— Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 1 10.— Belh. FI. Cant. (3id ed.) p. 83. — Hook. FI. Scot. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Fig. 2. Corolla. — Fig. 3. Corolla cut open, longitudinally, 
to show the situation of the 5 stamens and scales. — Fig. 4. Germen, Style, and 
Stigma.— Fig. 5. Calyx and 4 Seeds.— Fig. 6. Two of the Seeds.— Fig. 3. is a 
little magnified. 
* From lukos, Gr. a irotf, and oj)sis, Gr. a face ; from a fancied resemblance 
in the gaping flower to the head of a wolf. Dr. Hooker. 
Dr. Lehmann, Professor of Botany at Hamburgh, and author of a classical 
revision of the Asperifolia;, in 2 volumes quaiso, intitled Planta e Familia 
Asperifoliarum Nticiferee, published at Beilin in 1818, has reduced this genus 
to Anchusa, (see p. 48 of this work,) with which it agrees in the bordered scar 
of the seed ; but the curvature of the tube affords a remarkable and constant 
character, on which account Sir J. E. Smith, Dr. Hooker, Dr. W ithering, 
and Dr. Lindcey, have kept them distinct, 
t See A'tropa Belladonna, p. 10, note f. 
