Class V. Order I. 71 



Stem erect, round, covered with firm bristles standing on little 

 protuberances. Leaves rough, covered with the same kind of 

 bristles. Spikes of flowers axillary, recurved, gradually straight- 

 ening, bearing a row of crowded purplish flowers. Road side, 

 Roxbury.- June, July. Biennial. 



71. LITHOSPERMUM. 



LITHOSPERMUM oFFiciNALE. Lt. Common Gromwdl. 



Seeds smooth ; calyx nearly equal to the corolla ; 

 leaves lanceolate, acute, veiny. 



A rough branching plant introduced from Europe. Leaves 

 entire, rather acute. Flowers small, yellowish, in recurved 

 leafy spikes. Seeds white. Dry pastures. June. Perennial. 



LITHOSPERMUM ARVENSE. L. Corn Gromwell. 



Seeds wrinkled ; calyx nearly equal to the corolla ; 

 leaves obtuse, veinless. 



Leaves rough, oblong, obtuse, with only the central vein. 

 Flowers white. Dry hills, introduced. Annual. 



72. LYCOPSIS. 



LYCOPSIS VIRGINICA. I/. Virginian Lycopsis. 



Small, hispid ; lower leaves spatulate, upper ones 

 linear-oblong, entire ; racemes solitary ; flowers pe- 

 dunculated. 



A small hairy plant found with Krigia Virginica in dry woods 

 and on hills. Root leaves spatulate or obovate, those of the stem 

 oblong, closely sessile or half clasping. Stem erect, square, in 

 the larger ones branched. Flowers in a leafy raceme, each one 

 pedunculated and given off from the side of a leaf. Calyx seg- 

 ments acute, slightly unequal, corolla white or purplish, the seg- 

 ments rounded, the tube contracted at top and bottom, and swell- 

 ing in the middle. Stamens short, concealed in the tube. May, 

 June. Annual. 



LYCOPSIS ARVENSIS. L. Wild Bugloss. 



Hispid ; leaves lanceolate, repand-toothed ; ra- 

 cemes double ; flowers sessile. 



