PULMONA'RIA VIRGIN'ICA. 
VIRGINIAN LUNGWORT. 
Class. Order. 
PBNTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
BORAGINEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
18 inches. 
Mar. April. 
Perennial. 
in 1699. 
No. 133. 
In a late page, another species of our present sub- 
ject was noticed, and thence our readers are referred 
for the derivation of the word Pulmonaria. 
We dislike references from one part of a work to 
another, and very rarely make it necessary; but 
where plants of the same genus fall so nearly to- 
gether, a repetition of the same information might 
appear useless. It is, notwithstanding, intended that 
each volume of the Botanic Garden shall be complete 
in itself. In lieu, therefore, of references, deriva- 
tions must occasionally be repeated, 
The most prominent distinction between the pre- 
sent plant and the Pulmonaria pani<5ulata is in the 
colour of their flowers. The fugitive shades of the 
latter plant render it superior in attraction ; but the 
Pulmonaria Virginica springs forth at an earlier 
season, when very few rivals are present to vie with 
it; when every young visitant is doubly welcome, 
from the promptness with which it comes forth to 
relieve the poverty of a flowerless garden. 
Autumn is the best time for dividing this plant. 
Very small portions of the root seldom produce blos- 
soms in their first season. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 293. 
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