1122 BORAGINACEAE 
Nutlets each with a small flat scar where: attached : 
scales in the throat of the corolla broad. 
Corolla funnelform or salverform: lobes obtuse, | 
spreading, broa 
Racemes without. bracts: calyx-lobes about as 
long as the tube. 
Racemes with bracts: calyx-lobes much longer 
than the tube. 
Corolla slightly longer than the es 
style as long as the ovary or longer 6. LITHOSPERMUM. 
Corolla much longer than the calyx: style 
much elongated. 
Corolla tubular: lobes acute or acuminate, erect, 
narrow 8. ONOSMODIUM. 
Nutlets each with a large hollow scar where at- 
oo a in the throat of the oroa. nar- 
ce 
. MYOSOTIS. 
t 
BATSCHIA. 
9. SYMPHYTUM. 
II. ECHIEAE 
Stamens included: corolla-throat closed by scales. 10. LYCOPSIS. 
Stamens exserted : corolla-throat dilated and open. 11. ECHIUM. 
1. CYNOGLOSSUM [Tourn.] L. Annual, biennial, or perennial dn 
t herbs. Calyx manifestly accrescent. Corolla much longer than the calyx. 
Style relatively Mad Fruit surpassing the calyx.—About 75 species, I 
distributed.—Sum 
Stem copiously leafy to the top: corolla slightly longer than the CA. MN ets 
Stem terminated by a long peduncle: corolla much longer than PME 
the calyx: nutlets convex. - l 9. O. virginicum. 
C. offici M I. Stem 2-6 dm. tall: leaf-blades elliptie to linear- ed or 
linear- lanceolate, 5—15 cm. oe ealyx-lobes becoming 6-8 mm. long o 
corolla reddish purpie or rarely white, 
mostly 8-10 wide; mis reniform: 
thic 
pr rovinces, oO ou tal Plain, Ga. to Ark., 
Nat. of Eu. 
Kans., Minn d Que. 
virginicum L. Stem 2-11 dm. tall: 
leaf. blades oval i lliptie, i 32 em. long: 
calyx-lobes becoming 3-4 m . long: corolla 
lue or m 
tween the F ines.— ( WILD-COMFREY. )—Dry 
soil, woods, ee and nd N various 
provinces, Ga. , Kans., and N. J. 
. LAPPULA [Rivinius] Moench. Annual, biennial, or perennial, often 
hirsute or hispid, herbs. Calyx scarcely accrescent: lobes spreading at matur- 
ity. Corolla pale blue, or whitish, scarcely as long as, or a little longer than 
the calyx. Style relatively short. Fruit somewhat longer than the calyx.— 
About 40 species, mostly natives of the north temperate zone. 
a of the corolla-tube remote from the base of the lobes: fruit erect, or ascend- 
1. L. Lappula. 
Scales of the corollá-tube at the base of the lobes: fruit drooping. 2. L. virginiana. 
1. L. Lappula (L.) Karst. Plant 2-6 dm. tall: eae linear-spatulate to 
linear, 2-5 em. long: calyx-lobes becoming 3-10 mm. long: corolla-lobes about 
