280 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Anchusa, 
Root woody, blackish. FI. Brit. E.) Barren stems trailing and sending 
forth roots. Flowering stems upright. Blossom larger than in either of 
the preceding, of a fine deep blue, externally reddish, nearly twice the 
length of the calyx, whose segments after flowering grow much longer, 
as in L. arvense. (Calyx narrow, bristly. Spikes two or three upright. E.) 
Creeping or Purple Gromwell. Mountains and woody pastures, rare. 
In the west of England, and in a chalky soil near Greenhithe, Kent, 
found by Dr. Latham. E. Bot. Coppice between Axbridge and Wookey. 
Dr. Maton; and abundantly in Cheddar woods by the side of the road 
leading to Axbridge. Bot. Guide. (In Darent Wood, Kent. Curtis. 
At Mary-church, Devon. Rev. A. Neck. Caswell-Bay, Glamorganshire. 
Mr. J. Turner. Hooker. Nicholston Wood, near Penrice, in the same 
county. Mr. Dillwyn. In 1824, Mr. Griffith informs me, it has lately 
been found by the Rev. Mr. Scott in the original station of Ray, viz. on a 
bushy hill north-west of Denbigh, now called the Crest.” E.) 
P. April—May. 
ANCHIFSA.* Bloss. funnel-shaped : mouth closed, by pro¬ 
jecting valves: Nuts four, each of one cell; perforate 
at the base. 
(A. officinalis. Spikes tiled, pointing one way; floral-leaves egg- 
shaped, (as long as the calyx. E.) ; leaves spear-shaped. 
E. Bot. 662 —FI. Ban. M2—Fuchs. 150. 
Root spindle-shaped, black on the outside, but not yielding colour, as 
A. tinctoria. Plant rough with hairs. Stem two feet high, upright, 
angular, leafy, a little branched, panicled. Leaves spear-shaped, sharp- 
pointed ; upper ones nearly egg-shaped at the base. Spikes mostly in 
pairs, rolled back. Floral-leaves egg-shaped, not strap-spear-shaped, 
as in A. angustifolia. (In the plants before the Editor, the floral-leaves 
are spear-shaped. E.) Blossoms purple, funnel-shaped. FI. Brit. 
Alkanet. Amongst rubbish near the sea-shore. On the links near 
Hartley Pans, Northumberland. Rev. T. Butt. FI. Brit. (Mr. Winch, 
who has kindly favoured me with specimens from the same spot, con¬ 
jectures that this plant was probably first brought there in ballast, but is 
now become naturalized. P. June—July. E.) 
A. sempervi'rens. Fruit-stalksaxillary, in heads, two leaves to each 
head: leaves egg-shaped, acute; floral-leaves somewhat waved 
and serrated. 
Dicks. H. S. — Hook. FI. Lond. 94— E. Bot. 45— Munt. 117— H. Ox. xi. 
26. 2 —Lob. Adv. 247— Ger. Em. 797. 3. 
( Roots thick, black on the outside, mucilaginous. FI. Brit. E.) A strong 
rough, dark green plant, nearly a yard high. Leaves with us rarely 
spotted with white, as Linnseus has observed them to be. This accident 
seems principally to happen to the root-leaves, which have stood the 
winter’s cold, for the stem does not endure through the winter. Blossom 
fine blue, segments rounded, tube at the base (quadrangular, but half the 
length of the limb; the blossom rather approaching to salver-shaped 
* (Derived from ayxovcra, paint, the red root of A. tinctoria yielding a dye formerly used 
for the face, and other purposes. E.) 
