| OCR Text |
Show ~J ~ tft;,nd~IV t ~ P~w,:bt~" ~- s;;~ ____ ___ , The Hijlory of P L A N T S. 255 is filiform, and fhorter than the cup ; the fiigma is obtufe and emarginated. There is no pericarpium : the calyx, unaltered, contains four roundi01, obtufe feed~. 1 • Pulmonaria Joliis radicali!Jus ovato-cordatis. Tbe Pulmonaria, with ovato-cordated, radical leaves. ~age ofjJ~::: rufaletn. The root is compofed of a clufier of white and moderately thick fibres. The radical leaves are five or fix inches long, and three or four inches broad, of a duiky green colour, even at the edges, covered with a long hairinefs, and foft to the touch. The ftalk grows to fix, eight, or ten inches high ; it is 1Jairy, angular, and often purplilh : the leaves that ftand op. it are placed irregularly; and have no pedicles: they are oblong, and an inch in breadth. The tops of the ftalks ufually are curled, before the flowers are all opened; the flowers are moderately large, and of a blue or purplilh colour ; often fome are blue, others purple, on tne fame branch; fometimes atfo th'ey are white. The radical leaves are fometimes alfo plain and uniform1 fometimes they are blotched with white. This is a native of many parts of Europe, but with us is only kept in gardens. C. Bauhine calls it, Symphytum macu1ofum five Pulmonaria ma-culofa. J. Bauhine, Pulmonaria maculofa. The leaves are accounted pectorai and cardiac, but are not ufed in the prefent prac:tice. 2. Pulmonaria foliis radicalibus lanceolatis. '!be Pulmonaria, with lanceolated, radical leaves. Etbtunt:4eabttl ·10ultnonattn. The root confifis of a great number of thick, white fibres. The radical leaves are five inches long, and about two and a half broad, and are f11aped much like thofe of the buglofs: they are hairy, and of a dufky green colour. The fialk is angular and thick ; it grows fometimes to a foot high, and is furnif11ed all the way up with oblong, narrow leaves ; at the top it divides into two or three ihort ramifications, which are curled at the ends, and on which ftand three or four flowers at a time; thefe are large, and of a beautiful red colour, fometimes white. This is faid to be a native of England, and found in woods in Hamptbire. C. Bauhine calls it, Pulmonaria angufiifolia rubente creruleo flore; others, Pulmonaria foliis echii. The other more- fin gular fpecies are, r. The rounditb-leaved Pulmoiiaria. 2. The narrow-leaved, blue Pulmonaria. 3· The ftrawberry-fcented Pulmonaria. 4· The Cretic Pulmonaria, with inflated cups. 5· The tunnel-flowered, narrow-leaved, oriental Pulmonaria. B 0 R R A G 0. · c T HE calyx of the Borrago is a permanent perianthium, divided into- five fegme? ts at the top. The corolla confifu of a fingle, petal of the lengrh of the cop : the tube ~s .lh~rt; the limb divided into five fegments, and plane; the opening coronated, w~th five obtufe, emarginated prominences. The framina are five fubulated and co?mvent filaments : the antherre are oblong and conn,ivent ; they are affixed to th~ mtddle of the inner fide of the fiamina : the germina are four; the fiyle is · fihform, and longer than the ftamina; the fiigma is firuple. There is no pericarpium, but the cu~ grows larger and inflated, and contains four fee.ds of a roundi.lh figure, rugofe, cannated outwardly from the point, globofe at the bafe, and inferted into a hollowed receptacle. This genus comprehends the Borrago of authors, and the BorraginoideS' of Tournefort, and Cynogloffoides of Ifnard. The figure of the fegments of the calyx, or of the fize of the tube of the corolla, are not to be fuppofed fufficient characters for di-fiingui{ hing of genera. ' 1 1. Bor- |
