Genus 12. 



BORAGE FAMILY. 



s 9 



5. Lithospermum carolinense (Walt.) MacM. 



Hairy or Gmelin's Puccoon. Fig. 3539. 



Anonytnos carolinensis Walt. Fl. Car. 91. 1788. 

 Batschia carolinensis Gmel. Syst. 2: Part 1, 315. 1791. 

 Lithospermum carolinianum Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1 : 397. 



1791. 

 Lithospermum lurtum Lehm. Asperif. 305. 1S18. 

 Lithospermum carolinense MacM. Met. Minn. 438. 1892. 



Perennial, hispid-pubescent, or scabrous ; stems 

 usually clustered, rather stout, simple, or branched 

 above, i-25 high, very leafy. Leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate, sessile, obtuse or acute at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, 2-3' long, the lowest commonly 

 reduced to appressed scales, the uppermost oblong ; 

 flowers 6"-8" long, in dense short terminal leafy 

 racemes, dimorphous; pedicels l"-3" long; calyx- 

 segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube of 

 the orange-yellow salverform corolla ; corolla-lobes 

 entire, rounded, the throat crested, the tube bearded 

 at the base within by 10 hirsute teeth ; nutlets white, 

 shining, about 2" high, ovoid, very much shorter 

 than the calyx-segments. 



In dry woods, western New York to Florida, Minne- 

 sota, Montana and New Mexico. April-June. 



6. Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) 

 Lehm. Hoary Puccoon. Fig. 3540. 



Batschia canescens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 130. pi. 



14. 1803. 

 Lithospermum canescens Lehm. Asperif. 305. 1818. 



Perennial, hirsute, somewhat canescent, at least 

 when young; stems solitary or clustered, simple 

 or often branched, 6-18' high. Leaves oblong, 

 linear-oblong, or linear, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, sessile by a narrowed base, 4'-ii' long, 

 2 '-5" wide, the lowest often reduced to appressed 

 scales ; flowers about 6" long, sessile, numerous 

 in dense short leafy racemes, dimorphous ; calyx- 

 segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube 

 of the orange-yellow salverform corolla ; corolla 

 crested in the throat, its lobes rounded, entire, its 

 tube glandular but not bearded at the base within ; 

 nutlets white, smooth, shining, acutish, shorter 

 than the calyx-segments. 



In dry soil, Ontario to western New Jersey and 

 Alabama, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Texas. 

 April-June. 



7. Lithospermum linearifolium Goldie. 

 Narrow-leaved Puccoon. Fig. 3541. 



L. angustifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 130. 1803. 



Not Forsk. 

 L. linearifolium Goldie, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1822: 



322. 



Perennial by a deep root, strigose-pubescent and 

 scabrous ; stem branched, 6-2 high, the branches 

 erect or ascending. Leaves linear, sessile, acute 

 or acutish, -2' long, \\"-2\" wide; flowers of 

 two kinds, in terminal leafy racemes; corolla of 

 the earlier ones salverform, about i' long, bright 

 yellow, the tube 3-5 times as long as the linear- 

 lanceolate calyx-segments, the lobes erose-dentic- 

 ulate, the throat crested, the base of the tube not 

 bearded within; later flowers (sometimes all of 

 them) much smaller, pale yellow, cleistogamous, 

 abundantly fertile, their pedicels recurved in fruit ; 

 nutlets white, smooth, shining, ovoid, \\"-2" high, 

 more or less pitted, keeled on the inner side. 



In dry soil, especially on prairies, Ontario and 

 Indiana to Illinois, Kansas and Texas, west to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, Utah and Arizona. Yellow puccoon. April-July 



