genous in Britain. As to thefpectes, 
it is evidently the cyanus, or blue- 
bottle, becaufe there is no other with 
a blue flower. 
There is, on the verge of thofe lands, EM- 
another ftately plant with blue flow- vm * 
ers, of which probably you have never 
heard the name. It is a handfome 
flower to look at, but not very pleafant 
to touch ; its item being thick fet with 
white bridles, each of which, you will 
perceive, grows on the centre of a 
brown tubercle. Its five red ftamina 
and forked piftillum, are eafily feen, as 
they project much beyond the rim of 
the corolla. Its common height is about 
two feet. The flowers, you fee, crowd 
all to one fide of the fpike, which is 
generally from fix to nine inches in 
length. The leaves on the ftem are 
feflile, hairy and fpear-fhaped. Thefe 
together are fufficient marks of diftinc- 
tion. It is the Echiurq vu/gare, or Vi- 
per's Buglos. But I mud apprife you 
that the flowers on the fpike being la- 
teral, that is, growing all on one fide, 
T is 
