PULMONA'RIA MARIT'IMA. 
SEA LUNGWORT. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. IUONOCYNIA . 
Natural Order. 
BARAGINACE/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration, 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
1 foot. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
Sea shore. 
No. 823. 
Pul monaria is a name founded on the belief, 
amongst ancient herbalists, that the Pulmonaria 
maculata was intended by nature as a remedy for 
pulmonary complaints. Opinions regarding the 
medicinial virtues of herbs were frecpiently drawn 
from their external characters ; thus, the idea of 
the plant above named, being salutary for com- 
plaints of the lungs, was supposed to be indicated 
by the spots on its leaves, which resemble those on 
the lungs of consumptive patients. 
The Pulmonaria maritima is a remarkably pretty 
plant when well established, and displaying its 
pink buds and blue flowers amongst its glaucous 
grey foliage. It is rarely seen in cultivation, al- 
though a British plant, inhabiting sandy sea-coasts 
in the north of England, and in Scotland, where it 
is a great ornament. 
It is best grown on rock-work, where the surface 
can be kept dry, small stones placed round its 
stems, and a good depth of very sandy soil provid- 
ed for its long fleshy roots to run into. Here it 
should remain undisturbed, which is essential to its 
successful culture. Increased from seeds. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 4, 320. 
