ASPERIFOLIÆ

ASPERIFOLIÆ,in Botany, one of the Divisions or Kinds of Plants. See PLANT. The Characters of the Asperifolious Kind, are, that the Leaves stand alternately, or without any certain Order on the Stalks: The Flowers are monopetalous, but have the Margin cut into five Divisions, sometimes deep, sometimes Shallow; and the upper Spike or Top of the Plant, is often curved back, something like a Scorpion’s Tail. They are called Asperifolie, because they are usually rough-leaved, but not always so. After each Flower there usually succeed four Seeds; Mr. Ray reckoning the Cerinthe the only Plant of this Genus, that hath less than four Seeds at the Root of each Flower; this, indeed, hath but two. The Herbs Asperifolie, are the Pulmonaria Maculosa, Cynoglossum, Borage, Bugloss, Alkanet, Echium, Linum Umbilicatum, Heliotropium majus, Aparine major, Cozie major, Lithospermum, Echium Scorpoides, and Cerinthe.