Omphalodes. — Lappula. 791 
their margins broad thin, entire or serrate, reflexed over the back 
of the nuts so as to form on each a small nearly closed cell 
opening outwards by small hole; nuts smooth on the back. 
A small genus of only LO—15 species, from the Mediterranean basin 
to Central Asia and Japan. 
1104. Omphalodes linifolia (L.) Moench Method. (1794), p. 262. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., p. 111 no. 748. — Weak, 
decumbent herbs, strigose or subglabrous, 30—40 cm high or some- 
times somewhat more. Basilar leaves long petioled linear-lanceolate, 
the cauline-ones linear-filiform, alternate. Pedicels in loose racemes, 
slender, recurved in fruit. Flowers white; sepals 5, spreading 2 to 
3 mm long, spathulate, little enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate, throat 
almost closed by obtuse scales; lobes 5, included; anthers small, 
obtuse. Ovary ovate, deeply 4-lobed; style depressed, from the base 
of the lobes, stigma small or subcapitate. Fruit 2mm long and 
broad, exactly pyramidal; nutlets somewhat saccate at the base, 
appearing inflated by the reflexed loose membranous margin. 
M. ma. Alexandria, often cultivated in gardens and sub- 
spontaneous. 
Also known from South Europe. 
446, (6.) Lappula Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla salver-shaped, throat closed by minute 
scales. Stamens included, anthers longer than the filament. Nutlets 
sometimes more or less adnate to each other, erect, 3-angled or 
flattened; disk tubercled or smooth, margined with 1—3 rows of 
glochidiate prickles free or connate at base. — Herbs with minute 
white or bluish flowers, and pyramidal fruit usually appressed- 
strigulose (ours not more than 2—3 mm long). 
A small genus widely distributed in the Orient. 
A. Nutlets keeled, with pitted muricate surface, and 
mehahinct Misrein yore” ett ee tae he ilek oe histo 1. L. spinocarpos. 
B. Nutlets with one row of glochidiate prickles at 
Pie ernment? Lh PLM atte Fe roe Re ok Pere F 2. L. sinaica. 
1105. (1.) Lappula spinocarpos (Forsk.) Ascherson in Sitzungsber. 
Bot. Verein Prov. Brandenbg. XVI (1874), p. 88. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.111 no. 745. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 801 
no. 187. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.600 no. 229. 
— Echinospermum spinocarpos Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 249. — Anchusa 
spinocarpos Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p.41. — Myosotis spinocarpos 
Vahl Symb. II, p.32. — Hehinospermum Vahlianum Lehm. Asper., 
