alkanet (alkanet)

[ 2. The plant which yields the dye, Alkanna tinct or i a. Also called orcanet and Spanish buglo .-3. A name of similar plants of other genera. The common alkanet of England is Anchusa officinal is; the evergreen alkanet, A. sempervirens; the bastard alkanet, Lithospermum arvense, and in America L. canescens.