NO'NEA FLAVES'CENS. 
YELLOWISH-FLOWERED NONEA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
BORAGINACE^. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Caucasus. 
1 foot. 
May. 
Biennial. 
in 1834. 
No. 678. 
The generic name, Nonea, was established by 
Moench, in honour of J. P. Nonne, a German 
botanist, and author of a local Flora. The genus 
has been principally made up of species from 
Anchusa and Lycopsis. From Anchusa it differs 
in the bearded throat and funnel shape of its 
corolla. From Lycopsis it may be distinguished 
by the straight tube of its corolla — that of Ly- 
copsis being incurved. 
Nonea flavescens, as well as being a native of 
the Caucasian mountains, has been found in the 
island of Sara. The natural order to which it be- 
longs — Boraginacese, contains several well-known 
dye plants, particularly the Anchusa tinctoria or 
Alkanet of the shops. 
This native of the north of Europe, has proved 
to be a completely hardy biennial plant, and was 
raised in the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s 
Garden, from Russian seeds, received there in 1834. 
If permitted to scatter its ripened seeds, during the 
summer and autumn, young plants will spring up 
and continue flowering in succession through the 
whole of the following summer. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 4, 337. 
