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LABIATJS. (MINT FAMILY.) 
dula Spied) ; Sweet Marjoram ( Marjorhna hortinsis); Summer Sa¬ 
vory ( Saturiia hortinsis) ; and the Hyssop (Hyssdpus officindlis) ; the 
latter beginning to be naturalized in some places. 
Order 72. BOR AGIN ACE^E. (Borage Family.) 
Herbs, chiefly rough-hairy (not aromatic ), with alternate 
entire leaves, and symmetrical flowers with a 5 -parted ca¬ 
lyx, a regular &-lobed corolla, 5 stamens inserted on its 
tube, and a deeply Globed ovary (as in Labiatae), which 
forms in fruit 4 seed-like nutlets surrounding the base of 
the single style, each with a single pendulous ( anatropous) 
seed. — Albumen none. Cotyledons plano-convex : radicle 
at the apex of the fruit. Calyx valvate, the corolla imbri* 
cated (in Myosotis convolute) in the bud. Flowers axilla¬ 
ry, or mostly in one-sided racemes or spikes which are rev¬ 
olute (circinate) before expansion, and often bractless. 
Synopsis. 
* Corolla obliquely irregular ! naked in the throat. 
1- Echium. Stamens unequal, exserted. 
* * Corolla perfectly regular. 
Nutlets fixed to the receptacle by a broad and excavated base. 
2. Lycopsis. Corolla funnel-shaped, with a curved tube, and with 
5 obtuse hairy scales at the throat. 
3. Symphytum. Corolla cylindrical-bell-shaped, 5-toothed; the 
throat closed with 5 awl-shaped scales. 
"** Nutlets fixed to the receptacle by a small flat scar (closed). 
4. Onosmodium. Corolla oblong or ovate-tubular, the lobes erect or 
converging; throat naked. 
5. Lithospermum. Corolla funnel-form, open (imbricated in the 
bud). Calyx 5-parted. Flowers bracted. 
6. Myosotis. Corolla salver-form, short, convolute in the bud ; the 
throat half closed with obtuse scales. Calyx 5-cleft. R a * 
ceme bractless. 
7. Mertknsia. Corolla tubular-funnel-form, elongated, with a 
wide-spreading border: scales none. Racemes or clusters 
bracted only at the base. 
Nutlet * (prickly or margined) obliquely or somewhat laterally 
fixed to the central column or base of the style (closed). 
8. Echinospermum. Corolla salver-form. Nutlets prickly-margined- 
D. CruoGLossuM. Corolla funnel-form. Nutlets prickly all over. 
