PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cynoglossum. 281 
than strictly infundibuliform. E.) Gcrmens bedded in a hollow glan¬ 
dular receptacle. Seeds one or two, generally abortive; rough with 
wrinkles, very hard. 
Evergreen Alkanet. Road sides and amongst rubbish. Haddiscoe, 
Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Near Norwich. Mr. Pitchford. Near the 
Blankets, Worcester. Mr. Ballard. About Sidmouth. Mr. Knappe. 
Near Birmingham, on the Alcester road, and on sandy hedge banks 
in the lanes about Edgbaston, plentiful. (In the Master's Close, 
Emanuel College, under walnut trees, and in the back yard of Christ's 
College, Cambridge. Rev. R. Relhan. About Fowey, Cornwall. Mr. E. 
Forster, jun., and near Liskeard. Mr. Dawson Turner, in Bot. Guide, 
By the road side at Great Yeldham, Essex. Mr. E. Forster, jun. (On 
the ruins of Maes Glas Monastery, Flintshire. Mr. Bingley. Basingwark 
Abbey, near Holywell. Mr. Griffith. Craig-Millar Castle, Edinburgh. 
Mr. Arnott. Hook. Scot. In Mamhead church-yard, and near Dart¬ 
mouth, Devon. Rev. Pike Jones. E.) P. May—July.* 
CYNOGLOS'SUM.f Bloss. funnel-shaped ; mouth half closed 
by projecting valves : Nuts four, depressed, attached to 
the style by the inner side only, imperforate. 
C. officinale . Stamens shorter than the blossom ; leaves broadly 
spear-shaped, sessile pubescent. 
(j FI. Dan. 1147— E. Bot. 921. E.)— Kniph. 6— Woodv. 216— Ludw. 81— 
Curt. 249— Matth. 1190 and 1191— Dod. 54. 1 and 2— Lob. Obs. 313— Ger. 
Em. 804. 1. and 1— Park. 511. and 512. 3— Blackw. 249— Ger. 659— H. 
Ox. xi. 30. 1 .and 2—J. B. iii. 598. 
Stem two feet high, branched, leafy, furrowed, hairy. Whole plant downy, 
and soft to the touch. Leaves a span long, with a strong mid-rib. Calyx 
segments oblong-egg-shaped, not sharp, downy. Blossom mulberry co¬ 
lour. Valves fringed. (Seeds rough, with hooked prickles. Grev. E.) 
Great Hound’s Tongue (Irish : Tanga Gohow. Welsh: Pigyl meddy- 
gaivl; Tafod y by-theuad. E.) Road sides and amongst rubbish, com¬ 
mon. P. June.t 
C. sYLVAT f icuM. Stamens shorter than the blossom : leaves spear- 
shaped, harsh, flat, distant, nearly sessile. Jacq. (smooth and 
shining above; hairy and verrucose beneath. E.) 
(E. Bot. 1642. E.)— Col. Ecphr. 175— Park. 512. 5.) 
(Stem hairy, leafy. Calyx hirsute. FI. Brit. E.) Leaves dark green. 
* (The Alkanet roots produced in England are very inferior for yielding a fine red co¬ 
lour to those of A. tinctoria grown in the Levant. The corticle parts only give the dye. 
E.) 
+ (From Kwog a dog, and y Xwaerot a tongue ; descriptive of the shape of the leaves. E.) 
f Both the root and leaves have been suspected to possess narcotic properties. It is 
discarded from present practice ; but Ray says that Dr. Hulse used a decoction of the roots 
inwardly, and cataplasms of them outwardly, in strumous and scrophulous cases. Its 
scent is very disagreeable, and much resembles that of mice. Hill. Goats eat it. Cows, 
horses, sheep, and swine refuse it. It furnishes food to the caterpillar of Phalcena Domina, 
the scarlet Tiger Moth. (If gathered when in full vigour, bruised with a hammer, and 
laid in any place frequented by rats and mice, they will immediately forsake the premises. 
M. Boreux. E.) 
