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5. Lithospermum Gmelini (Michx.) A. S. Hitchcock. 

 Puccoon. (Fig. 3047.) 



Batschia Carolinensis Gmel. Sj-st. 2: Part i, 515. 1791. 



Not Lithospermum Carolinianiiut Lam. 1791. 

 Balschia Gmelini Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 130. 1S03. 

 L.tthospernntm hirtittn Lehra. Asperif. 3(^5. 1S18. 

 L. Gmelini A. S. Ilitchc. Spring Fl. Manh. 30. 1894. 



Perennial, hispid-pubesceut, or scabrous; stems 

 usually clustered, rather stout, simple, or branched 

 above, \°-2° high, very leafy. Leaves lanceolate, 

 sessile, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base, 2'-3' long, the lowest commonly reduced 

 to appressed scales, the uppermost oblong; flowers 

 6"-S" long, in dense short terminal leafy racemes, 

 dimorphous; pedicels i"-3" long; calyx-segments 

 linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube of the 

 orange-yellow salvcrform corolla ; corolla-lobes en- 

 tire, rounded, the throat crested, the tube bearded 

 at the base within by 10 hirsute teeth; nutlets 

 white, shining, about 2" high, ovoid, very much 

 shorter than the calyx-segments. 



In dry woods, western New York to Florida, Minne- 

 sota, Colorado and New Mexico. April-June. 



Hairy or Gmelin's 



6. Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) Lehm 



7. Lithospermum angustifoHum Michx. 

 Narrow-leaved Puccoon. (Fig. 3049.) 



L. angustifoHum Mich.i. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 130. 1803. 



Perennial by a deep root, strigose-pubescent 

 and scabrous; stem branched, 6'-2° high, the 

 branches erect or ascending. Leaves linear, sessile, 

 acute or acutish, ^'-2' long, i ^"-2^" wide; flow- 

 ers of two kinds, in terminal leafy racemes; corolla 

 of the earlier ones salverform, about i' long, bright 

 yellow, the tube 3-5 times as long as the linear-lan- 

 ceolate calyx-segments, the lobes erose-denticulate, 

 the throat crested, the base of the tube not bearded 

 within; later flowers (sometimes all of them) much 

 smaller, pale yellow, cleistogamous, abundantly fer- 

 tile, their pedicels recurved in fruit; nutlets white, 

 smooth, shining, ovoid, iyi"-2" high, more or less 

 pitted, keeled on the inner side. 



In dry soil, especially on prairies, Manitoba to Illi- 

 nois, Kansas and Texas, west to British Columbia, Utah 

 and Arizona. April-July. 



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Hoary Puccoon. (Fig. 3048.) 



Batschia canescens Michx. Fl. Bor. .\m. i: 130. pi. 



14- 1803. 

 Lithospermum canescens'L.&Xwti. Asperif. 305. 1818. 



Perennial, hirsute, somewhat canesceut, at 

 least when young; stems solitary or cluste 

 simple or often branched, 6'-iS' high. Leaves 

 oblong, linear-oblong, or linear, obtuse or acu- 

 tish at the apex, sessile by a narrowed base, 

 Yz'-xYz' long, 2"-5" wide, the lowest often re- 

 duced to appressed scales; flowers about 6" 

 long, sessile, numerous in dense short leafy 

 racemes, dimorphous; calyx-segments linear- 

 lanceolate, shorter than the tube of the orange- 

 yellow salverform corolla; corolla crested in the 

 throat, its lobes rounded, entire, its tube glandu- 

 lar but not bearded at the base within; nutlets 

 white, smooth, shining, acutish, much shorter 

 than the calyx-segments. 



In dry soil, Ontario to western New Jersey and 

 Alabama, west to the Northwest Territory, Kansas 

 and Arizona. April-June. 



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