PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Borago. 265 



in Dr. Robertson's walks at North Marchiston, near Edin- 

 burgh, first observed by Mr. Yalden. Lightfoot. In several other 

 places in the south of Scotland, according to Mr. Hopkirk, 

 Mr. Maughan, &c. Hooker. In Durham. Mr. Robson. 



Perennial. July. 



Root knobbed and branched, externally whitish. Herb of much 

 humbler stature than the last, with a simple, scarcely winged, 

 stem, and more ovate, rather harsher, leaves. Flowers fewer, 

 drooping, yellowish white, tinged with green ; their valves finely 

 toothed at the edges. 



93. BORAGO. Borage. 



Linn.Gen.77. Juss.\3\. Fl. Br. 219. Tourn.t.53. Lam. t.94. 

 Nat. Orel, see n. 87. 



Cat. in 5 deep, moderately spreading, segments, permanent. 

 Cor. of 1 petal, wheel-shaped; tube of various lengths; 

 limb in 5 deep, flat or twisted segments, widely spreading; 

 mouth bordered with 5 short, obtuse, notched valves, or 

 with awl-shaped ones, or with both, in which case the 

 latter bear the stamens at the inner side. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, various in length, converging. Anth. arrow- 

 shaped, or oblong and notched. Germ. 4. Style cylin- 

 drical. Stigma capitate. Seeds 4, ovate, converging, rug- 

 ged or tuberculated, attached to the base of the closed 

 calyx. 



Herbaceous, rough with prickly hairs, or bristles. Flowers 

 numerous, panicled, handsome, blue or white. Dr. Leh- 

 mann has, with the greatest propriety, separated from 

 this genus three tropical Linnaean species, (which have a 

 naked throat, and their seeds attached to a winged cen- 

 tral column,) by the name of Trichodesma. 



1 . B. officinalis. Common Borage. 



Limb of the corolla flat, much longer than the tube ; mouth 

 with a double row of valves ; the innermost awl-shaped, 

 bearing the stamens. 



B. officinalis. Linn. Sp. PL 197. Willd. v. 1. 776. Fl. Br. 210. 



Engl. Bot. v.\.t. 36. Hook. Scot. 70. Lehm. Asperif. 20 1 . 

 B. n. 607. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 269. 

 B. hortensis. Ger. Em. 797./. Raii Syn. 228. 

 Borago. Brunf. Herb. v.\.\ 13./. 

 Buglossum, sive Borrago. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 527. /. Camer. 



Epil.9\4.f. 

 Buglossa urbana. Cord. Hist. 109. 2./. 



