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B0RAGINACEA2. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 
with 5 small folds or gibbous projections; lobes rounded. An¬ 
thers oblong, almost sessile, included. Nutlets ovate, smooth or 
wrinkled, fixed by a small truncate base (closed). — Herbs, usu¬ 
ally with thickish roots yielding a red coloring matter, more or 
less roughish-hairy or downy usually sessile leaves, and spiked or 
racemed leafy-bracted flowers. (Name compounded of XiOos, a 
stone , and (nreppa , seed , from the hard or stony nutlets.) 
* Nutlets roughened-iorinkled. {Annual.) 
1. Li. arveiise, L. (Corn Grom well.) Slender, hoary with 
minute appressed hairs, somewhat branched; leaves lanceolate, acut- 
ish, nearly veinless; racemes few-flowered, the lower flowers re¬ 
mote ; corolla (yellowish-white) not longer than the calyx. Dry 
fields, introduced. June, July. — Plant 8'- 12' high : leaves 1' long. 
* * Nutlets smooth and polished , stony , white. ( Perennial.) 
Corolla yellowish , short. 
2. L. officinale, L. (Common Gromwell.) Much branch¬ 
ed above (12'-18' high); leaves broadly lanceolate, acute, veiny, 
rough; calyx as long as the tube of the corolla; nutlets very smooth. 
— Waste grounds, introduced, sparingly naturalized. June. 
3. L. latifolium, Michx. (Broad-leaved Gromwell.) 
Stem branching (2°-IF 1 high); leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, some¬ 
what ribbed, minutely roughened above and downy underneath; those 
of the root large and rounded; flowers few and scattered; calyx 
longer than the tube of the corolla , enlarged and spreading in fruit; 
nutlets marked with impressed punctures , turgid. — Dry banks, W. 
New York (Niagara, &c.), to Michigan, and southwestward. June. 
— Larger and broader-leaved than the last. 
■*- ■+- Corolla deep yellow , large ; lobes spreading. (B&tschia, Michx.) 
4. L|. llirtum, Lehm. (Hairy Puccoon.) Stem simple; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, rough-hairy , obtuse; the floral ovate-lanceolate; tube 
of the corolla scarcely longer than the calyx , bearded at the base in¬ 
side, the lobes obovate. (Batschia Gmeleni, Michx .)—Dry woods, 
Penn. ? ( Muhl .), Michigan, and southward. 
5. L. canescens, Lehm. (Hoary Puccoon. Alkanet.) 
Stem sparingly branched above, very leafy; leaves oblong , obtuse, 
somewhat hoary with close and soft downy hairs; tube of the showy 
orange-yellow corolla 2-3 times the length of the calyx , the lobes 
round. (Batschia canescens, Michx.) — Open places, W. New York 
{Hadley) to Wisconsin. May. — Root long, red: stems 6'-12' high. 
6. MYOSOTIS, L. Scorpion-Grass. Forget-me-not. 
Corolla salver-form, the tube about the length of the 5 -toothed 
or 5-cleft calyx, the throat with 5 short arching appendages oppo- 
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