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7. OMPHALODES. (Name from the Greek, refers to the navel-shaped 

 depression on the upper face of the nutlets.) Cult, from Eu. for ornament. 

 O. v6rna. Blue or Spring Navelwort. Spreading -by leafy runners ; 



leaves ovate or somewhat heart-shaped, 2' - 3' long, pointed, green ; flowers 

 azure-blue, in spring. 11 



O. Iinif61ia, White N. Erect, 6' -12' high, loosely branched, very pale 

 or glaucous, with broadly lanceolate leaves sparingly ciliate, the upper sessile, 

 white or bluish flowers, and turgid nutlets toothed around the margin of the 

 cavity. ® 



8. ECHINOSPERMUM, STICKSEED. (Name of two Greek words 

 for liedi/e/wff and seed, from the nutlets.) 



E. lappula. Weed of waste grounds, especially N., roughish-hairy, erect, 

 \o_ 2° high, with lanceolate leaves, small blue flowers, and nutlets with rough- 

 tii horded back and thickly-prickled margins : fl. all summer. ® 



9. CYNOGLOSSUM, HOUNDSTONGUE (which the name means in 

 Greek). Fl. summer. Nutlets form burs which adhere to fleece. 



C. oflS.cillile, Common H. Coarse weed from Europe, common in pas- 

 tures and roadsides : leafy, soft-pubescent, with spatulate or lance-oblong 

 leaves, the upper ones closely sessile, crimson purple corolla, and flat somewhat 

 margined nutlets. (D 



C. Virginicum, Wild Comfrey. Rich woods : bristly-hairy ; with 

 simple stem leafless above and bearing a few corymbed naked racemes of blue 

 flowers, the stem leaves lance-oblong with heart-shaped clasping base, the nut- 

 lets very convex. 2/ 



C. Morisdni, Beggar's Lice. Thickets and open woods : a common 

 weed, 2° - 4° high, with slender widely spreading branches, thin oblong-ovate 

 leaves tapering to both ends, forking and diverging racemes of very small 

 whitish or bluish flowers on pedicels reflexed in fruit, and convex barbed-prickly 

 small nutlets. ® (2) 



10. LYCOPSIS, BUGLOSS." (Name of Greek words for wolf and face or 

 aspect.) European weeds. Fl. summer. (T) 



L. arv^nsis, Field or Small Bdgloss. Very rough-bristly weed, about 

 1° high, in sandy fields E. ; with lance-oblong leaves, and small blue corolla 

 little exceeding the calyx. 



11. SYMPHYTUM, COMFREY. (From Greek word meaning to grow 

 tor/ethfi)- or unite, alluding probably to supposed healing properties.) Cult, 

 from Old World : fl. summer. 21 



S. ofBcin&,le, Common C. Rather soft-hairy ; the branches winged by 

 the dccurrent bases of the oblong-lanceolate leaves; corolla yellowish-white. 

 Naturalized sparingly in moist grounds. 



S. asperrimum, Rough C. Cult, in some gardens : stem and widely 

 spreading branches excessively rough with short and somewhat recurved little 

 prickles, not winged ; calyx-lobes short ; corolla reddish purple in bud changing 

 to blue. 



12. HELIOTRbPIUM, HELIOTROPE (i. e., in Greek, turning to the 

 sun). Fl. all summer. 



* Spilce.<i only in pairs, or the lateral ones solitary : flowers ivhite. ® 

 H. Curassavicum. Sandy shores and banks from Virginia and Illinois 

 S. : very smooth and pale ; leaves oblong, spatulate, or lance-linear, thickish, 

 veinless 



H. Europseum. Old gardens and waste places S., introduced from Eu. ; 

 hoary-downy, 6' - 18' high ; leaves oval, long-petioled, veiny. 

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