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BORAGINACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



9. AMSINCKIA Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 7. 1831. 



Annual hispid or setose herbs, with narrow leaves, the yellow flowers in scorpioid spikes. 

 Calyx 5-parted, the segments linear. Corolla salverform or funnelform, the tube slender, 

 naked or minutely crested in the throat, the 5 lobes spreading. Stamens 5, borne on the 

 corolla-tube, included. Ovary deeply 4-lobed. Nutlets ovoid, rough, laterally attached to 

 the receptacle below the middle. [In honor of William Amsinck, a burgomaster of Hamburg 

 and friend of the Hamburg botanical garden.] 



About 15 species, natives of western North America and Chile, the following typical. 



i. Amsinckia lycopsioides Lehm. 

 Fig. 3527- 



Amsinckia. 



Lithospermum lycopsioides Lehm. Pug. 2 : 28. 1830. 

 Amsinckia lycopsioides Lehm. ; DC. Prodr. 10 : 117. 1846. 



Diffusely branched, loosely hispid with long, bristly 

 hairs, the branches often i long, decumbent or ascend- 

 ing. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, repand-dentate or entire, 3' long or less, 

 sessile ; scorpioid spikes short in flower, elongating in 

 fruit, the lower flowers bracteolate, the upper ones com- 

 monly bractless ; corolla about 4" long, its tube some- 

 what longer than the calyx; nutlets rugose-reticulate. 



Waste grounds, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Ad- 

 ventive from California. May-July. 



Amsinckia intermedia F. & M., an erect Californian 

 species, with orange-yellow flowers and linear leaves, has 

 been found in eastern Long Island and Nantucket. 



10. ASPERUGO [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 138. 1753. 



An annual rough-hispid procumbent herb, with alternate entire leaves, or the uppermost 

 sometimes opposite, and small blue or nearly white flowers, short-pedicelled and 1-3 together 

 in the upper axils. Calyx campanulate, unequally 5-cleft, much enlarged and folded together 

 in fruit, the lobes incised-dentate. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated. 

 Stamens 5, included, inserted on the corolla-tube; filaments very short. Ovary 4-divided; 

 style short ; stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, ovoid, erect, granular-tuberculate, keeled, laterally 

 attached above the middle to the elongated-conic receptacle. [Latin, rough, referring to 

 the leaves.] 



A monotypic genus of Europe and Asia. 



i. Asperugo procumbens L. German Mad- 

 wort. Catchweed. Fig. 3528. 



Asperugo procumbens L. Sp. PI. 138. 1753. 



Stems slender, branched, diffusely procumbent, 

 6'-i8' long, very rough with stiff bristly hairs. Leaves 

 oblong, lanceolate, or the lower spatulate, obtuse or 

 acutish at the apex, i'-ii' long, the lower narrowed 

 into margined petioles ; flowers very short-pedicelled, 

 about i" broad, blue, the pedicels recurved in fruit; 

 fruiting calyx dry and membranous, strongly veined, 

 4"-6" broad; nutlets obliquely ovoid. 



In waste places and ballast, Massachusetts to south- 

 ern New York, New Jersey, District of Columbia and 

 Minnesota. Adventive from Europe. Called also small 

 wild bugloss and great goose-grass. May-Aug. 



