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BORAGINACEAE 1125 
6. LITHOSPERMUM et L. Annual, biennial, or perennial herbs. 
a slightly enlarged at ma pele eae slightly longer than the calyx, 
ite, greenish, or yellowish. Style ong as the ovary or somewhat longer. 
sd surpassed by the calyx.—About " species, in the Northern Hemisphere.— 
Spr.-sum.—GROM WELLS. 
Annual plant: corolla white or whitish, slightly surpassing the calyx. 
1. L. arvense. 
Perennial plant: corolla yellow or sometimes greenish-white. 
Pubescence of stem strictly appressed. 2. L. latifolium. 
Pubescence of stem more or less spreading. . L. tuberosum. 
arvense L. Stem and branches 1-8 dm. long: leaf-blades linear- 
oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 1.5-5 cm. long, acutish: ealyx-lobes narrowly 
tted 
GROM WELL. yRoadsides fields, and 
hills, various provinees, Ala. to Miss., Kans., 
Ont., and Me. 
2. L. latifolium Michx. Stem and branches 
. tall: blades of the cauline leaves 
eliptc to hes d 4-12 em. long, 
inate x-lobes 
comi oe 8-10 dm lon flat: corolla on 
white or pale-yellow ; lobes over ae as long as 
the oS nutlets ovoid, 3-3.5 long, 
smooth Woods, fields, and roa de ari- 
ous provinces N of Coastal Plain, Tenn. to Ark., Minn, Ont., and Va. 
3. L. tuberosum Rugel. Stems and branches 3-7 dm. s Pod of the 
cauline leaves oblanceolate to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 2-10 cm. long, acute or 
dpi phe ealyx-lobes bro oadly linear to linear- spatulate, becoming 4—6 
a yellowish white; lobes less than 1% as long as the tube: 
ds po ane about 2 mm. 1o ong.—River-bluffs id b e Coastal 
Plain and adj. provinees, Fla. to Tex., and Tenn. 
7. BATSCHIA G. F. Gmel. Perennial herbs, with colored roots. Calyx 
Fruit surpassed by the ealyx, the nutlets mainly ovoid esent 6 species, 
North American. 
s is entire, the Edi remote from them: all flowers complete: stamens 
below the throat of the corolla. 
enn ai rsute: corolla-tube beu diss at the base within. 1. B. canescens. 
ispid: corolla-tube bearded at the base within. 2.' B. carolinensis. 
Corolia-lobes erose or laciniate: the appendages close to their 
ases: later flowers cleistogamous: stamens in the throat of 
a corolla. 3. B. linearifolia. 
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1. B. canescens Michx. Plant 1—4 dm. tall: leaf-blades linear to elliptic or 
ovate-elliptic, 9-21 mm. long: calyx- lobes linear or nearly so, becoming 3-5 
