L 1 T H 0 S PE R'M U M 0 RIE N TA'L I S 
ORIENTAL GROMWELL. 
Class. 
^ENTANDRIA. Order. 
>IONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
BORAGINACE,®. 
Native of 
Levant. 
Height. 
| Flowers in 
Duration. 
2 feet. 
j June, July. 
Perennial. 
Introduced 
in i? 13- 
No. 1182. 
Lithospermum literally means stone-seed ; being 
derived from the Greek lithos, a stone ; speema, a 
seed. Stone-seed would, perhaps, have been the 
best English name ; or, Pearl-seed, which, two or 
three centimes ago, was applied to it. The name 
Gromwell, however, was the old English title for the 
Litliospennum, and therefore retained, although its 
meaning has been lost. The French, according to 
Geiard, call it Gremill. 
Lithospermum orientalis has small flowers and 
consequently, is not of showy character; but it con- 
tinues to produce its little golden stars for many 
weeks, unfolding them progressively, at the summit 
the P ]ant > as ^ increases in height. As it is not 
desirable m the landscape that the whole view be 
seen at once, so in the flower garden, it is the more 
interesting that the beauty of some of its plants be 
reserved from view, till they are approached and 
examined. 
This plant asks for no care, if it be placed in a 
Ig it dry soil. In a veiy sandy peat bed we have 
seen it glow in great luxuriance. Increase may be 
obtained by division of its roots. 
