188 BORAGE FAMILY 



Lycium carolinianmn. Flowers purple or lavender, small, 

 4-cleft, in leaf-axils, stamens 4. Shrub 1-5 ft. tall. Leaves 

 fleshy, clustered, narrow, less than 1 in. long. Berry red. 

 Near the coast. Blooming chiefly from spring to fall. Fla. 

 to S. C. and Texas. 



Bed Pepper (Capsicum frutescens) 



This little red pepper, found in the borders of hammocks 

 and thickets in southern Florida, grows from one to two 

 feet tall, with small white flowers, alternate pointed 

 leaves, and oblong red berries nearly half an inch long. 

 Any doubt about the identity of this plant is removed by 

 a taste of its red fruit, which speedily bites back when 

 bitten. 



BOBAGE family (Boraginaceae) 



Herbaceous plajit. Flowers tubular, greenish. Leaves alter- 

 nate. 



False Gromwell (Genus Onosmodium) 



This winter-blooming plant of dry soil shows a decora- 

 tive form in its curved inflorescence, which is fringed by 

 the long styles protruding from the greenish flowers. It 

 frequently appears in cleared land that has been neglected. 

 The foliage is roughened with short stiff hairs, as in many 

 other plants of this family. 



The range of the northern Lithospermum Gmelini, 

 with orange-yellow flowers, extends into northern Florida. 



The forget-me-not, Myosotis, whose older name of scor- 

 pion-grass referred to the curved tips of the racemes, 

 is one of the most widely-known flowers of this family. 



Onosmodium virginianum. Flowers yellowish green, tubu- 

 lar, 5-lobed, nearly Yi in. long, in curved, terminal racemes. 

 Calyx 5-lobed, stamens 5. The fruit is 4 white nutlets in 



