928 BORRAGINACEJE. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 
1. T. Canadense, L. Stem tomentose, erect, simple or branched; leaves 
short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, serrate, pubescent above, white-velvety 
beneath ; flowers mostly alternate, in a long hoary spiked raceme, longer than 
the subulate bracts; calyx bell-shaped. (T. Virginicum, Z.) — Swamps and 
low ground, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. July- Sept.  — Stem 
29-39 high. Leaves 2'—6'long. Flowers purplish. ; 
ORDER 95. BORRAGINACEZE. (Bonacr Fawr) 
Herbs or shrubs, with terete or irregularly angled stems, and alternate 
entire exstipulate mostly rough-hairy leaves. Flowers usually in 1-sided : 
spikes or racemes, which are coiled in the bud.— Calyx free, 5-cleft or — 
5-parted, valvate in the bud, persistent. Corolla regular (except No.6), —— 
hypogynous, 5-lobed, imbricated or (in Myosotis) convolute in the bud. 
Stamens 5, equal, inserted on the tube of the corolla and alternate with 
its lobes. Ovary 4-celled, with a single ovule in each cell. Style single. 
Fruit various. Albumen scarce or none. Cotyledons flat or folded, 
Radicle superior. 
Synopsis. 
Tre I. CORDIE ZS. Ovary undivided. Style terminal, twice 2-lobed at the apex- 
Fruit a 4-celled drupe. Cotyledons folded. Albumen none. — Shrubs. Flowers in 
heads or spikes. 
1. CORDIA. Calyx opening regularly, not eircumscissile. : 
Tree I. EHKETIEJZE. Ovary undivided. Style terminal, 2-lobed at the apex c 
Fruit a 4-seeded berry. Cotyledons flat. Albumen scanty.— Shrubs. 
2. EHRETIA. Styleslender. Flowers corymbose. 
8. TOURNEFORTIA. Style short. Flowers eymose or spiked. 
Tewe IL HELIOTROPEZE. Ovary undivided. Style terminal, simple. Fruit 
separating into 2 or 4 nutlets. — Chiefly herbs. 
4. HELIOTROPIUM. Fruit separating into 4 nutlets, each 1-seeded. 
5. HELIOPHYTUM. Fruit separating into 2 nutlets, each 2-seeded. 
Taz IV. BORRAGER. Dear deooty 4 pacto; enakost the hase 6 OF AMET 
style. Fruit of 1-4 one-seeded nutlets.— Herbs. 
* Throat éf the corolla naked. Nutlets not hispid. 
: *- Corolla irregular. 
3 ‘© scum. Corolla funnel-shaped, unequally lobed. 
+ + Corolla regular, 
7. ONOSMODIUM. Lobes of the corolla erect, acute. Nutlets smooth and stony- 
8. LITHOSPERMUM. Lobes of the corolla rounded. Nutlets smooth or rugose- 
9. MERTENSIA. Lobes of the corolla rounded. Nutlets somewhat fleshy. 
10. Sina. Lobes of the corolla convolute in the bud. Nutlets smooth. - 
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