side at Great Yeldham. Air. E. Foster, jun. — Road-side at Walthamstow, 
Essex, possibly from a garden. Mr. W.Pamplin, jun. — Near Maidenhead; 
and, Kenton. Rev. Dr. Beeke. — Near Sidmouth. Dr. Withering. — About 
Barnstaple. Dr. Maton. — On Durnsford Hill, between Exeter and Moreton 
Hampstead, Devon. Mr. E. Forster, jun. in Bot. Guide. — About Fawey. 
Mr. E. Forster, jun : and near Liskeard, Cornwall. Mr. D. Turner, ibid. — 
About Norwich in several places, as well as at Haddiscoe, Norfolk. Sir J. E. 
Smith, in Engl. FI. — At Walpole, by Halesworlh, Suffolk. Dr. Hooker, ibid. 
— Bury, in the lanes near Haberdon. Sir T. G. Cullum. — At Framlingham, 
in the way to Parham, past the watery lane. Rev. G. Crabb. — Burgh Castle, 
near the gardens ; Suffolk. Mr. Wigg, in Bot. Guide. — Plentifully on a bank 
between Lewes and Southover ; Sussex. W. Borrer, Esq. ibid. — On the road 
between Kendal and Ambleside, two or three miles from the former town. 
Rev. J. Harriman, ibid. — The Blanketts, near Worcester. Air. Ballard. — 
By the road between Settle and Ingleton, Yorkshire. Mr. Teesdale, ibid. — 
In AJamhead churchyard, and near Dartmouth, Devon. Rev. Pike Jones, in 
With. Bot. Arr. — Among the ruins of Basingwerk Abbey, near Holywell. Mr. 
Griffith.— In the parish ofWhiteford. Air. Pennant. — And on the ruins of 
Maes-glAs Alonastery, Flintshire. Rev. W. Bincley. — At Inverary. Rev. W. 
Wood, in Sm. Engl. FI. — At Bagland, near Neath , Glamorganshire. Air. J. 
Woods, jun. in Bot. Guide. — Glen of Dunglass. Dr. Parsons, in Hook. FI. 
Scot. — Deanbank, near the village of the Water of Leith : Road-sides between 
Crossgates and Keltie, Kinross-shire. Mr. Maugiigan, ibid.— Banks of the 
Clyde, above Hamilton : near Chatelherault and Castlemilk, Glasgow. Air. 
Hopkirk, ibid. — Craig-Alillar Castle, Edinburgh. Mr. Neill, 1799. in Grev. 
FI. Edin. — In hedges near Douglass, in the county of Cork. Air. Drummond, 
in Alack. Catal. of Plants of Ireland. 
Perennial. — Flowers from May to August. 
Root thick, mucilaginous ; black on the outside, nearly white 
within. Stems from a foot to 1 8 inches high, round, slightly angu- 
lar, leafy, and clothed with projecting, rigid hairs or bristles. Root- 
leaves stalked, about a span long, egg-shaped, pointed, of a deep, 
dark green, lasting through the winter. Stem-leaves alternate, 
upper ones sessile, egg-shaped, broad, and marked, like the root- 
leaves, with transverse veins. Flower- stalks axillary (growing be- 
tween a leaf and the stem), from an inch and a half to 2 inches and 
a half long, each divided at the top into two short, close spikes, with 
an intermediate flower, and two principal egg-shaped bracteas. 
Partial Bracteas spear-shaped. Calyx rather longer than the tube 
of the corolla, thickly clothed with white bristly hairs. Corolla 
with a shorter tube than in most other species of Anchusa, and more 
salver-shaped than funnel-shaped. Limb of a beautiful sky blue ; 
tube short, nearly white ; the valves white and downy. Seeds ( Nuts 
of Lind. Syn.) egg-shaped, brown, compressed, with elevated 
wrinkles, and a cavity at the base of each J. 
One of our prettiest native plants, and well deserving a place in 
the Flower Garden. 
t “ The Alkanet roots produced in England are very inferior for yielding a 
fine red colour, to those of A. tinctoria grown in the Levant. The cortical parts 
only give the dye.” Dr. Withering. 
