J, Lappula (Riv.) Moench.Stickseed. 
Erect annual or perennial herbs with alternate hispid leaves. 
Flowers small, blue ,in one-sided coiled cymes. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 
tubular-funnelform, the tube short, the throat closed by 5 scales. 
Stamens included. Nutlets armed with stout prickles barbed at the apex. 
1. Le ochinata Gilib. Anmials with slender erect or decumbent thinly 
appressed-hirsute stems 20-60 com. tall,branching in the inflorescence; 
leaves 1.5-5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, oblong or dblong-lanceolate, sessile, 
mostly obtuse, hispid-hirsute, the hairs more or less appressed, passing 
into the similar but much reduced bracts; calyx-lobes 2 mm. long in flower, 
linear-oblong, hispid-hirsute, increasing to 5.5-4 mm. and spreading in 
fruit; :corolla blue, scarcely 2.5 mme long; nutlets 3 mme long, narrowly 
ovoid, acute at the apex, bearing around the margin a double row of stout 
rigid prickles about 1 mm. long, whireh—esxe—harhed_s.—she—eponp. 
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In dry soil on low hillsides. 
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Gynoglossum o:licinale lie Common iiounds tongue, Nutlets armed with 
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Sepelike vrickles. Corolla blue, 5-6 mm, long. 
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