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BORAGINACEjE. (borage family.) 
in terminal racemes, which are bractless above, but with one or 
two leaves at the base. (Named for Prof, Mertens , an early Ger¬ 
man botanist.) 
1. Iff. Virginiea, DC. (Virginian Cowslip.) Stem up- 
right ; racemes at first corymbed, elongated in fruit; corolla 4 times 
the length of the calyx , naked in the throat, the much spreading bor¬ 
der slightly 5-lobed ; filaments slender. Pulmoneiria Virginiea, L. — 
Alluvial banks, W. New York to Wisconsin. May_A showy 
plant, often cultivated ; the corolla nearly 1' long. Root-leaves be¬ 
coming 5' - 6' long, obovate. Disk bearing 2 glands as long as the 
ovaries. 
2. M. maritima, Don. (Sea Lungwort.) Stems spread- 
ing ) leaves rather fleshy; corolla twice the length of the calyx , the bor¬ 
der 6-cleft; filaments broad and short. (Pulmomlria maritima, L. 
Lithosp6rmum, Lehm.) — Sea-coast, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Russell , 
and doubtless in Maine; thence northward. July. 
M. denticulata probably does not belong to the United States. 
8. ECHIXOSPERMIJM, Swartz. Stickseed. 
Corolla salver-form, short, nearly as in Myosotis, but imbricated 
in the bud, the throat closed with 5 short scales. Stamens includ¬ 
ed. Nutlets erect, fixed laterally to the central column, triangular 
or compressed, the back armed next the margins with 1-3 rows 
of prickles which are barbed at the apex, otherwise naked. — 
Rough-hairy and grayish herbs, with small blue flowers in bracted 
racemes. (Name compounded of ifivos, a hedgehog , and aneppa, 
seed , from the prickly nutlets.) 
1. E* Lapp 111 a, Lehm. Stem upright, branched above; ped¬ 
icels erect; leaves lanceolate, sessile, bristly-ciliate; nutlets each 
with a double row of prickles at the margins, and more or less tuber- 
cled between them. (!) (5) — Waste places, probably introduced. 
July. — A homely weed, 1° - 2° high. 
9. CYNOGEdSStnn, Tourn. Hound’s-tongue. 
Corolla funnel-form, the tube about the length of the 5-parted 
calyx, the throat closed with 5 obtuse scales ; the lobes rounded. 
Stamens included. Nutlets depressed or convex, laterally affixed 
to the base of the style, covered with short hooked prickles. — 
Coarse herbs, with a strong unpleasant scent, and mostly panicled 
racemes which are naked above but usually bracted at the base. 
