p 79.— G rev. FI. Eilin. p. 47. — FI. Devon, pp. 35 & 152. — Johnston’s FI. of 
llerw. v. i. p.54— Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 51. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of Ireland, p. 
2 !. — Buy loss a urvensis, Gray’s Nat. A rr. v. ii. p. 351. — Buglossa sylvestris 
minor, Pay's Sj n. p. 227. — Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 799. 
Locauiie . — In corn-fields, waste ground, and on dry hanks, especially 
where the soil is lightand sandy. — Common. 
Annual. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Root simple, fibrous, whitish. Whole plant harsh, rough, and 
bristly ; hairs or bristles arising from a white callous tubercle. 
Stem upright, thick, round, or slightly angular, leafy, from 18 in- 
ches to 2 feet high, usually branched at top only. Leaves alter- 
nate, light green, single ribbed, wavy, somewhat toothed ; the 
lower ones bluntest, tapering down into footstalks ; upper ones 
sessile, or clasping the stem. Clusters in pairs, forked, revolute, 
leafy ; upright when in fruit. Partial-stalks upright, shorter than 
the calyx. Calyx very bristly ; segments oblong, acute, upright, 
spreading as the seed ripens. Corolla sky-blue ; tube and scales 
white ; Limb a little irregular, and inclining. Seeds large, hard, 
nearly black, egg-shaped, pointed, wrinkled and granulated. Co- 
rolla sometimes varies to white. 
A very minute parasitical fungus, Ery'siphe Aspcrifoli6rum, of 
Dr. Greville’s Flora Edinensis, is sometimes found on the stem 
and leaves of this plant in the neighbourhood of Oxford, in the 
Autumn. 
M. Jean Fontana, Member of the Academy of Turin, has 
strongly recommended the application of Lycopsis arvensis, bruised 
and pounded, to the worst kind of carbunculous ulcerations ; but 
the practice, says Dr. Withering, has not attracted much atten- 
tion in England. 
