In writing the above description, considerable assistance has been derived from the manuscripts of the late Mr
Curtis, among whose papers was found an unfinished account o f this plant, evidently drawn upfor the purpose of
s e um 1797, ill U.un Wood, near Hartford. The individual here figured comes from nearly the same place and
was collected by M r. Graves, who found ltin the greatest profusion on the 10th of May last, completely coverine
some banks about the wood. In France, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and the more southern parts of
Germany it abounds; but m England it is of comparatively rare occurrence, though Mr. Turner and Mr I&lwyn
in their XolanutsGuide, enumerate six British counties of which it is a native? and, subsequently to the publi-
|® S S p H also been detected oh the cliffs a t Marychurch, adjoining Babbicombe Hill, D eL sh fre ,
by the Key. Aaron Neck,- and by Mr. James Turner in Glamorganshire, at Caswell Bay. '
, ; el- “ Fl“r,a HOoctua, compares the flowers of this species to those of a P ulm m aria: but surely he
might have likened them with more justice to those of the Anchusx, and particularly of A . officinalis which our
plant resembles, at a cursory view, more perhaps than any other individual of the British Flora
We find no mention made by any author o f any medical or other purpose to
B t t i e c S ” cuItivated in a gar<ien> it grows readily; but to flower freely, requir
which L . purpuro-cceruleum is
es a light rich loamy soil, with a