Anchusa

In this specimen a raceme of small flowers was included within the enlarged pericarp of a species of _Anchusa_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

A small quantity of Alkanet root (_Anchusa tinctoria_), is imported from the Levant and the south of France, and is used to color gun stocks, furniture, &c., of a deep red mahogany and rosewood color.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

English name "bugle" is also given to a common labiate plant, the _Ajuga reptans_, not to be confused with the "Bugloss" or _Anchusa officinalis_.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

-- Ornamental hardy annuals, closely allied to the Anchusa.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

Italy, in the wish that _all_ onions there were like it! the _Anchusa

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

Norman [264] mentions a case wherein the carpels of _Anchusa ochroleuca_ were replaced by two leaves; from this he draws the inference that the pistil of borages and labiates is really composed of two leaves, placed fore and aft, the margins of the leaves being congenitally fused.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

They are generally colored red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet root (Anchusa tinctoria), brought from Shangtung, into the mixture.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

They are generally coloured red, which is done by throwing a minute quantity of alkanet-root (_Anchusa tinctoria_), brought from Shan-tung, into the mixture.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 Various 1841

_Anchusa_ is not only used for colouring, but also fried and yfoundred, 62. yfondyt, 162.i. e. dissolved, or ground.

The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

a prolification of the flower of _Anchusa ochroleuca_, in which the pistil consisted of two leaves, situated antero-posteriorly on a long internode, with a small terminal flower-bud between them; and numerous similar instances might be cited.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters