2<34 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Borago. 



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

 burghj first observed by Mr. Yalden. Lightfoot. In several other 

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

 Mr. Maughanj &:c. Hooker. In Durham. Mr. Robson. 



Perennial. Juii/. 



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. 131. Ft. Br. 219. Tourn. t. 53. Lam. t.94. 

 Nat. Ord. see it. 87. 



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

 Co7\ of 1 petal, wheel-shaped ; tube of various lengths ; 

 limb in 5 deep, flat or tv/isted segments, widely spreading; 

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

 with aw4-shaped ones, or with both, in which case the 

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

 shaped, various in length, converging. Antli. 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. Flo'-iioers 

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

 mann has, with the greatest propriety, separated from this 

 genus three tropical Linnsean species, (wliich have a 

 naked throaty 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. PI. ]97. Willd. v. I. 776. Fl.Br.2l9. 



Engl. Bot. v.\.t.36. Hook. Scot. 70. Lehm. Asperif. 201 . 

 B. n. 607. Hall. Hist. V. 1.269. 

 B. hortensi.s. Ger.Em.797 .f. Raii Syn. 228. 

 Borago. Brimf. Herb. v.\. 113./. 

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



Epit.9]4.f. 

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



