340 BORAGINACEiE. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 
Lower leaves petioled. (Name from kvg>v, a dog, and y\oa<ra, 
tongue.) 
1. C. officinale, L. (Common Hound’s-tongue.) Clothed, 
with short soft hairs , leafy , panicled above; upper leaves lanceolate, 
closely sessile by a rounded or slightly heart-shaped base; racemes 
nearly bractless; corolla reddish-purple ; nutlets flattened from above, 
margined, (g) — Waste grounds, introduced, a familiar and trouble¬ 
some weed ; the large nutlets adhering to the fleece of sheep, &c. 
2. C. Virgmicum, L. (Wild Comfrey.) Roughish with 
spreading bristly hairs ; stem simpl e, few-leaved ; stem-leaves lanceo¬ 
late-oblong, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes few an 
corymbed , raised on a long naked peduncle, bractless; corolla pale blue, 
nutlets tumid, clothed with very short prickles. 1J. — Rich woods, 
Vermont and Penn., and common westward. June. — Plant 2 
high; lower leaves large. Flowers much smaller than in the last, 
much larger than in the next. 
3. C. Ifforisdni, DC. (Beggar’s Lice.) Stem hairy, very 
broadly branched, leafy; leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, also ta 
pering at the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and roug is 
above; racemes panicled , forking, diverging, hairy, leafy-bracte at 
the base; corolla white or pale blue (minute), pedicels reflexe^ ^ 
fruit; nutlets convex, the prickles with barbed points. © ( * 0 
sotis Virginica, L. Echinosp6rmum, Lehm.) — Copses, common. u } 
— A vile weed, 2°-4° high. 
Borago officinalis, L. (Borage), is sometimes spontane 
about gardens. 
Heliotr6pium Indicum, L. (Indian Heliotrope), belonging 
division of the family in which the 4 nutlets are united until * 
as in Verbena, the style therefore terminal, is naturalized from - a - 
land southward, and perhaps sparingly in the Western States. 
Order 73. HYDROPHYLLACEiE. (Waterleaf Fan.) 
Herbs, commonly hairy, with mostly alternate and cut 
lobed leaves, regular 5-merous and b-androus flowers, as ^ 
the Borage Family, but the ovary ovoid and entire, 1 ce 
ed, with 2 parietal few — many-ovuled placenta, which usv 
ally project into the cell and often line it like an interior 
pod. — Style 2-cleft above. Pod globular, 2 -valved, fe 
seeded. Seeds reticulated or pitted, amphitropous, with & 
minute embryo in cartilaginous albumen. — Flowers erne ; 
