Crossword-Solution: ANCHUSA 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Botany had lavished there its most elegant drapery of ferns of all kinds, snap-dragons with their violet mouths and golden pistils, the blue anchusa, the brown lichens, so that the old worn stones seemed mere accessories peeping out at intervals from this fresh growth.

Again, from statements made by Vaucher, and from a hasty inspection, I thought at first that the allied Anchusa arvensis and Echium vulgare were heterostyled, but soon saw my error.

Godetia, Double Mauve 2 Lupinus Hartwegii, Azure Blue 2 Poppy, Mauve Queen 2 Sweet Sultan, Purple 2 Xeranthemum superbissimum 2 Xeranthemum imperiale 2 Anchusa, Annual Blue 1-1/2 Gilia capitata 1-1/2 Gilia tricolour 1-1/2 Jacobea, Double, Purple 1-1/2 Nigella, Miss Jekyll 1-1/2 Phacelia tanacetifolia 1-1/2 Salvia, Blue Beard 1-1/2 Sweet Sultan, Giant Delicate Mauve 1-1/2 Sweet Sultan, Giant Mauve 1-1/2 DWARF.

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.

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.