In Cliedder Woods by the road-side as you go to Axbridge, abundantly : Mr. 
Sole, in B. G. In a copse near the road, between Bridgwater and Pawlett; 
South Brent, very plentiful on the brow of the hill, above the village: Mr. 
Clark, in N.B.G. Weston in Gordano: Miss Worsi.ey, in N.B.G. In 
plenty about Tyntesfield in Wraxall Park: Rev. H. T. Ei.licombe, June 11, 
1838. — W A LKS. Deribiyhsh. On the top of a bushy hill near Denbigh, on the 
north side of the town : Kay. Found in the same place, now called the Crest, 
by Mr. Scott, about 1824: Mr. Griffith. — Glamorgansh. Near Caswell 
Bay : Mr. J. Turner. 
Perennial. — Flowers in April and May. 
Root woody, blackish on the outside, whitish within ; much 
branched and tuffed. Stems numerous, round, simple, leafy, very 
rough with projecting bristly hairs ; those stems which produce 
flowers are upright, from a foot to 18 inches high; those which do 
not flower are often much longer, trailing on the ground, and taking 
root at the extremity. Leaves numerous, alternate, spear-shaped, 
entire, contracted at the base into a short petiole (footstalk), taper- 
ing at the point, single-ribbed, clothed on both sides with short, 
close hairs, accompanied on the upper with many callous warts ; 
the under side palest ; margin somewhat revolute. Flowers showy, 
at first red, afterwards purple, in somewhat unilateral, leafy spikes, 
which grow 2 or 3 together at the top of the stem, and are short 
and recurved before flowing, but, as the flowers expand, they be- 
come upright and much elongated. Calyx bristly, divided to the 
base into 5 very narrow, strap-shaped, bluntish segments. Corolla 
twice as long as the calyx ; externally reddish, the limb, when ex- 
panded, of a violet-blue on the upper side, with 5 pale swellings at 
its base, which do not close the tube, in whose upper part the 
stamens are situated. Seeds egg-shaped, hard, of a silvery white, 
highly polished, very slightly rugged, frequently abortive, as in many 
other plants that increase much by their roots. The segments of 
the calyx, after flowering, become much longer, as in Lithospermum 
arvense, and other plants of the same natural order. 
A rather handsome species, and not unworthy a place in the flower garden. Its 
large and bright blue flowers will readily distinguish it from L. officinale and 
L. arvense, whose flowers are very small and whitish ; and it differs from h. 
maritimum, the other British species, in the flowering stems being upright, rough, 
hairy, and dark-green ; not procumbent, smooth, and glaucous. 
“ Who can paint 
Like Nature ! Can Imagination boast 
Amid its gay creation, hues like her’s ? 
Or can it mix them with that matchless skill. 
And lay them on so delicately fine, 
And lose them in each other, as appears 
In every bud that blows 1” 
Thomson. 
