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ANCHUSA italica. 
Italian Bug loss. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BORRAGINES. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. IV. Fructus gym- 
notetraspermus. aux corolla instructa 5 squamis calcarum instar cavis, 
intra corollam prominulis in ejusdem laciniarum basi, extra hiulcis. Herbe 
plertimque asperifolie. 
BoRAGiInem. Brown prod. 1. 492. 
ANCHUSA. Cal. 5-fidus s. 5-partitus: Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce 
clausa fornicibus erectis, obtusis. Nuces 4, uniloculares, turbinatw, fundo 
calycis aflixe, basi concave perforate. Lehmann asperifol. 1. 211, 
Div. I. Calycibus 5-partitis in fructii erectis; corollis in pluribus inequa- 
libus. Lehm. 1. c. 
A. italica, caule erecto ramoso, foliis lanceolatis undulatis strigosis lucidis, 
racemis conjugatis divaricatis paniculatis bracteatis, calycibus tubo co- 
rolla subequalis longioribus: laciniis subulatis, fornicibus penicilliformi- 
bus. Lehmann asperifol. 1. 230; (sub ANCHUSA paniculath). 
Anchusa italica. Retz. obs. 1. 12; (cujus exemplar prototypum in Herb. 
Banks.) Trew pl. rar. 14. t. 18. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 756. Ejusd. enwn. 
1.178. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 289. ; 
Anchusa paniculata. Lehmann loc. cit. exclusis Hort. Kew. synonymisque 
omnibus ad plantam madetrensem orientalemque referentibus. 
Buglossum foliis linguiformibus asperis, spicis supremis gemellis, Hall. helv. 
n. 599; (exclusis synonyniis ). 
Buglossum italicum flore cwruleo Besleri. Hort. eystet. estiv. ord. 8. fol. 5. 
Buglossa vulgaris. Ger. emac. 798; cum ic. 
Caulis erectus, strictus, teretiusculus, 2-3-pedalis et longior, ramosus, 
utt tota planta hispidus: pilis patentibus rigidis, tuberculis callosis insiden- 
tibus. Rami patentes, in racemos abeuntes. Folia radicalia et caulina infe- 
riora petiolata, in petiolum supra planum attenuata, lanceolata, acuta, 
undulata; superiora. sessilia;.summa basi cordato-ovaia et ultra medium in 
acumen attenuata; omnia utringue strigosa, profunde viridia, sublucida. 
Racemi caulem et ramos terminantes, bipartiti flore centrali in dichotomid 
bracteis linearibus longitudine pedicellorum adspersi, lui, divaricati, in 
summo caule paniculam constituentes. Pedicelli erecto-secundi, distantes. 
Calyces longitudine pedicellorum, piloso-hispidi, usque ad basin 5-partiti: 
lacintis subulatis inequalibus. Cor. cerulea v. violacea; tubus cylindricts 
calyce brevior; limbus patens 5-partitus, lacintis inequalibus obovatis ro- 
tundato-obtusis. Fornices erecti, penicilliformes. Nuces 4, ovato-oblonge, 
reticulato-rugose, bast margine turgido cincte. Lelimann loc. cit. sub AN- 
CHUSA paniculata. f 
A species judiciously distinguished from officinalis and 
angustifolia by Retzius, whose prototype specimen is pre- 
served in the Banksian Herbarium; where we find also that 
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