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Echium (from the Greek for a viper). Boraginaceae. Viper's Bugloss. Coarse, mostly rough herbs and shrubs, with spikes of blue, violet, red or white flowers, some of them grown in the open and others under glass.

Echium (from the Greek for a viper). Boraginaceae. Viper's Bugloss. Coarse, mostly rough herbs and shrubs, with spikes of blue, violet, red or white flowers, some of them grown in the open and others under glass.

In rich soil echiums grow coarse and scarcely flower, and the flowers are never as richly colored as when the plants are more or less starved. Biennials seed freely, and the seed is sown as soon as gathered. E. fastuosum is said to be the handsomest of the shrubby kinds, grows 2 to 4 feet high, has long, pale green leaves covered with soft white hairs, and flowers of a peculiarly brilliant deep blue. Echiums are eminently suited for dry places, and need good drainage.

In rich soil echiums grow coarse and scarcely flower, and the flowers are never as richly colored as when the plants are more or less starved. Biennials seed freely, and the seed is sown as soon as gathered. E. fastuosum is said to be the handsomest of the shrubby kinds, grows 2 to 4 feet high, has long, pale green leaves covered with soft white hairs, and flowers of a peculiarly brilliant deep blue. Echiums are eminently suited for dry places, and need good drainage.

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==Species==

==Species==

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E. Auberianum, Hort., not Webb & Berth.— E. Bourgeanum. — E. Bourgranum, Webb. Stout and strict, 8-11 ft., the St. covered with long-linear drooping lvs.: 3s. rose-colored, in a dense pyramidal spike. Mountains. Canaries. A striking plant. — E. callithyrsum. Webb. Woody or treelike, robust, hispid-hairy: lvs. strongly nerved: calyx-segms. very unequal: fls. pale red: floral lvs. exceeding the different cymes of the thyrse. Canaries. — E. formosum, Pers. (syn. Lobostemon). — E. Pininana, Webb. & Berth. Very large species, reaching 16 ft., with an abundance of stout spreading long-oblong lvs.— E. Wildpretii, Pears. A tall soft-hairy biennial, with simple erect st. 2-3 ft.: lvs. sessile, narrowly linear-lanceolate, hairy: fls. pale red with long-exserted filaments, in a large terminal thyrse: floral lvs. much exceeding the different cymes. Canaries.

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