PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
iO^ 
processes. Stigma emarginate. Seed de- 
pressed, affixed to the style on the inner side. 
■ — Nutt. 
officinale, j, C. Covered vrith a very soft pubescence; leaves 
broad-lanceolate, sessile ; racemes paniculated. — 
Willd. 
Icon. Curt. Lond. 4. t. 16. 
Offcinal Hound&tongue. 
Two feet high. Flowers brownish-red. This plant is very 
rare in this neiglibourhood, and seldom flowers where I have 
seen it. In Powelton woods, scarce. In the dry woods three 
miles above the Falls of Schuylkill, west side of the river, also 
scarce. The plant is said to destroy rats. Biennial. June, 
July. 
ampicxi- 2. C. Very hirsute ; leaves oval- oblong, the upper 
ones amplexicaule, with a terminal, leafless, long, 
pedunculated corymb. — Mich, 
C. foliis amplexicaulibus, Groa, Virg, 
C. Virginicum, L. 
Common Hounds tongue. 
From eighteen inches to two feet high, with a hispid stem 
and haiiy rough leaves. Flowers blue and white. In the 
shady moist woods in the neighbourhood of Manilla \ and near 
the Falls of Schuylkill, w^est side of the river, frequent. Dries 
brown, when prepared for the iierbarium, unless much care is 
taken. Perennial. May, June. 
94. PURS HI A, Sprengel, [Anleitung ziir Kenntniss der Ge- 
wachse, p. 450 ] ( JBorragmeie. J 
Calix deeply 5-parted. Corolla somewhat tu- 
biiiar-campanuiate ; orifice naked ; border 
ventricose, half 5-cleft, segments connivent, 
acute. Anthers sessile, included. Style 
much exserted, entire, acute. — Nutt. 
