77 FLORA. 



14. BORAGO L. 



Hirsute or hispid annual or biennial herbs, with alternate entire leaves, and 

 showy blue flowers, in terminal loose leafy racemes. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or 

 5 -parted. Corolla rotate, the tube short, the throat closed by scales, the limb 

 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated, acute. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube; filaments 

 dilated below, narrowed above into a slender appendage ; anthers linear, erect, and 

 connivent into a cone. Nutlets 4, ovoid, erect, attached by their bases to the flat 

 receptacle, the scar of attachment large, concave. [Middle Latin, burra, rough 

 hair, alluding to the foliage.] Three species, natives of the Mediterranean region. 



4. Borago officinalis L. BORAGE. (I. F. f. 3054.) Stem 3-8 dm. high. 

 Leaves oblong to obovate, 5-13 cm. long, narrowed into margined petioles, or the 

 upper smaller, ovate-lanceolate, sessile or partly clasping ; flowers 1.5-2 cm. broad; 

 pedicels 3-5 cm. long, spreading or recurving; calyx-segments lanceolate, nearly 

 erect in fruit; corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, the cone of anthers darker, about 

 6 mm. long ; nutlets 4 mm. high. In waste places, escaped from gardens, N. S. to 

 Ont. and Perm. Native of Europe. June-Sept. 



15. LYCOPSIS L. 



Annual bristly-hispid herbs, with alternate leaves, and small blue or bluish 

 flowers, in leafy -bracted terminal spike-like scorpioid racemes. Calyx 5 -parted. 

 Corolla slightly irregular, salverform, the tube curved, the limb somewhat un- 

 equally 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, imbricated, the throat closed by hispid scales. 

 Stamens 5, included, on the tube of the corolla; filaments short; anthers obtuse at 

 each end. Nutlets 4, wrinkled, erect, attached by their bases to the flat receptacle, 

 the scar of attachment concave. [Greek, wolf-face.] About 4 species, natives of 

 the Old World. 



I. Lycopsis arvensis L. SMALL BUGLOSS. (I. F. f. 3055.) Stem 3-6 dm. 

 high, the branches becoming procumbent. Leaves lanceolate, narrowly oblong or 

 the lower oblanceolate, obtuse, 2-5 cm. long, undulate or dentate, sessile, or the 

 lower narrowed into petioles, the upper much smaller and acute or acutish ; flowers 

 4-6 mm. broad; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, nearly as long as the curved 

 corolla-tube. In fields and waste places, N. S. to Ont., Penn. and Va. Nat. 

 or adventive from Europe. June-Sept. 



16. ECHIUM L. 



Mostly bristly-hirsute herbs, with alternate leaves, and rather large blue violet 

 or rarely white flowers, in leafy -bracted scorpioid spikes. Calyx 5 -parted, the seg- 

 ments narrow. Corolla tubular-funnelform, the limb unequally 5-lobed, the lobes 

 rounded, spreading. Stamens 5, inserted low down on the tube of the corolla, un- 

 equal, at least the longer ones exserted; filaments dilated at the base; anthers ovate 

 or oblong. Style filiform, 2 -cleft at the summit. Nutlets 4, erect, ovoid, rugose, 

 attached by their bases to the flat receptacle. [Greek, a viper.] About 30 species, 

 natives of the Old World. 



i. Echium vulgare L. VIPER'S BUGLOSS. BLUEWEED. (I. F. f. 3056.) 

 Bristly-hairy, biennial; stem 3-8 dm. high. Leaves oblong, linear-oblong, or 

 linear-lanceolate, entire, 5-15 cm. long, sessile, or the lower and basal ones nar- 

 rowed into petioles; flowers bright blue, varying to violet-purple*, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 long, numerous in short i-sided spikes, forming a narrow thyrsus. In fields and 

 waste places, N. B. to Va., Ont. and Neb. Nat from Europe. June-July. 



Family 6. VERBENACEAE J. StHil. 



Vervain Family. 



Herbs, shrubs or some tropical genera trees, with opposite verticil- 

 late or rarely alternate leaves, and perfect irregular, or sometimes regu- 

 lar flowers, in spikes, racemes, cymes or panicles. Calyx inferior, 

 mostly persistent, usually 4-5-lobed or 4~5-cleft. Corolla regular, or 

 2-lipped, the tube usually cylindric and the limb 4~5-cleft. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, rarely only 2, or as many as the corolla-lobes, inserted 

 on the corolla and alternate with its lobes ; anthers 2-celled, the sacs 



