ECHIALS. ; 216 BORAGEWORIS. 
Habitat. Roadsides. te 
Quality. Seeds and flowers poisonous ; foliage acrid and bitterish. 
THE ECHIAL ALLIANCE (V. K., p. 649.) 
Natural Orders of Echials, 
Boragewarts (Boraginacew). Flowers 
symmetrical. 
iLabiates (Lamiacee). Flowers unsym- 
metrical. Nuts 4. 
Werbenes (Verbenacew). Ditto. Nuts 
confluent. 
Natural Order, Baragetwarts ; Boraginacew (V. K., p. 655.) 
Prevailing Quality. Mucilaginous, inert. — 
. Boraco. Linneus. 
Corolla rotate. Filaments bifid, with their inner leg antheriferous. 
1. B. officinalis Linneus,—(Borace.) 
Lower leaves elliptical obtuse, tapering to the base ; lobes of the corolla 
ovate, acuminate, flat. 
Habitat. Waste places, 
ried ot Uses. Commonly employed to cool beverages in which its leaves 47° — 
e) . 
Ancnusa. Linneus. 
Corolla hypoerateriform, with 5 inflexed scales in the orifice. Nuts sur — 
rounded at the base by a tumid edge. 
1. A. tinctoria Linnzeus.—( ALK aver.) btuse, 
Stem herbaceous, procumbent, rough with hairs ; leaves lanceolate, 0 ase: 
hoary ; calyx hairy, rather shorter than the tube of the corolla; nuts 
warted. . 
Habitat. South of Europe and 
Quality. Roots yield a reddish ps matter. 
Used to colour fatty substances; alkalies render it blue, 
oe of the flower-spike of Verbascum Thapsus ; a, one of the stellate hairs; >, a capsule 
