Buglossoides tenuiflora, (L. fil.) I. M. Johnston

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 88

7. B. tenuiflora (L. fil.) I. M. Johnston , Jour. Arnold Arb. 35: 42 (1954)

( Lithospermum tenuiflorum L. fil. ).

Annual; stems (5-)10-30(-50) cm, simple or branched above, usually erect, appressed-hispid. Cauline leaves 15^40 x (2-)3-8 mm, oblongspathulate to linear, obtuse. Cymes up to 8(—12) cm in fruit, paired or 3 together; flowers crowded; pedicels very short, not or only slightly thickened in fruit. Calyx 3-4 mm, up to 10 mm in fruit, with dense, yellowish, subappressed setae; lobes linearlanceolate, obtuse. Corolla 5-6 mm, bluish-violet, rarely white; tube narrowly cylindrical, somewhat expanded at the base. Nutlets c. 2 mm, erect or slightly incurved, urceolate in outline, distinctly 2-gibbous laterally on the back, abruptly contracted into a beak, densely and minutely tuberculate; pericarp very fragile . Dry hills and cultivated ground. S.E. Europe. G r Ju Rs (E)?Si. (5. W. & C. Asia, N. Africa.)