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BORAQINE/E. Borage Family. 



KEY TO THE Gd«ESCA. 



Nutlets broad, flattened, roundish, covered all over with barbed 

 prickles, much extended beyond the area of insertion, gener- 

 ally not all maturing ; crests in the throat of corolla conspicu- 

 ous ; stout and coarse perennials, with blue, greenish, or 

 purplish flovrers. . Cynoglossiim, Hound's Tongue. 



Nutlets erect and parallel with the style, armed on the sides and 

 in ridges on the back with barbed prickles forming burrs ; 

 flowers similar to the preceding, blue, white or pink. Peren- 

 nial herbs Lappula, Forget-Me-Not. 



Nutlets erect, smooth or warty, scar of insertion generally forked 

 at base; flowers small, white, with crests in the throat of the 

 corolla ; annuals. . Cryptanthe, White Forget-Me-Not. 



Nutlets oblique, with the scar of insertion raised and rounded, 

 hollow or solid ; flowers white, with crests in the throat ot 

 the corolla ; herbage staining the paper violet ; annuals. 

 Plagiobothrys, Pop-Corn Flower. 



Cynoglossum viride Eastwood. Stems i-several, from a 

 woody root, about a foot high, densely leaved to the peduncle, 

 pale gray with a closely appressed, white pubescence. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, to linear and ovate, the lower ones on margined 

 petioles 6 in. long, the upper sessile by a broad cordate-clasping 

 base ; mid-vein prominent. Flowers in head-like clusters at the 

 ends of the 2-6-inch long peduncles. Calyx with obtuse divisions 

 as long as the tube of the corolla, }i in. Corolla funnel-form, 

 greenish, the short border surpassing the calyx. Nutlets gener- 

 ally more than X iii- i^i diameter. This blooms in May, and will 

 be found in fruit in July. Converse Basin, Millwood. 



Lappula diffusa Qreene. Stems several from a woody cau- 

 dex, 1-2 ft. high. Radical leaves oblanceolate, on long margined 

 petioles, 6 in. long and ^ in. wide, pale with a closely appressed, 

 white pubescence ; stem leaves diminishing towards the top, 

 clasping at base, obtuse. Flowers panicled loosely ; pedicels 

 generally longer than the calyx, which is open bell-shaped and yi 

 in. long with narrow, obtuse divisions. Corolla salver- form, pink 

 or blue, the tube surpassing the calyx and the border, ^'s in- in 

 diameter ; folds in the throat conspicuous. General Grant Park ; 

 not common. 



Cryptanthe geminata Qreene. Annual, with the stems 

 much branched, about a foot high, the branches slender, gener- 

 ally 2-forked. Flowers white, very small. Nutlets not all matur- 

 ing, ovate pointed, smooth and glossy, light brown and mottled. 

 Millwood. 



