Ill) 



36. BORAGINACE.E. 



Avisinckiu 1 

 Heliotropiuni 2 

 Felt ill III 3 

 Lithospeniuuii 4 



2. C. europaea, L. Gn'dter Dodder. Flower-clusters 

 larger; calyx and corolla with blnnt, oval lobes; scales 

 appressed against corolla-tube and not closing it; styles 

 slioi'ter than ovary. 



Living on other herbs. — Oct. -Dec. — Europe; temperate 



Family 36.— BORAGINACE/E. 



Calyx persistant, of o divisions ; corolla o-lobed ; sta- 

 mens 5, alternate with the corolla-lobes; ovary 2- or 4-Iobed 

 at summit, with a simple style rising from between the 

 lobes; fruit of 4 bony 1-seeded carpels (or fewer by abor- 

 tioia), oi- of two 2-seeded carpels, either attached to a flat 

 receptacle or to a central axis rising from the receptacle 

 and forming the base of the style. Herbaceous plants, 

 usually rough-hairy ; leaves alternate ; flowers in 1-sided 

 spikes or racemes which are rolled backwards (scorpioid) 

 when young. 



Flowers without bracts : corolla small, funnel- 

 shaped. 

 Flowers yellow, without folds; stiarna small 

 Flowers white or lilac, with a fold between 



each lobe; stigma large, conical 



Flowers with bracts ; carpels free. 

 Corolla campanulate with unequal lobes ... 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, with equal spreading 

 lobes 



1. Amsinckia, Lehm. 

 (After a friend of the author named Amsinck.) 

 1. Amsinckia angustifolia, Lehm. Rough-viUous 

 annual with erect stems l)ranch- 

 ing near .summit ; leaves long, 

 linear-lanceolate; flowers very 

 small, yellow, .subsessile, in spikes 

 which become long and loose in 

 fruit ; calyx divided almost to 

 the base into 5 erect, linear 

 lobes ; corolla glabrous inside, 

 with a tube as long as the calyx 

 and 5 rounded lol)es mucli 

 shorter than the tube ; anthers 

 with short filaments, attached 

 above the middle of the corolla- 

 tube; stigma notched, carpels 

 ovoid, subquadrangular, wrin- 

 kled-tu1)erculate on the outer 

 face, smooth on the inner face 

 and attached to the conical re- 

 ceptacle by the lower part of 

 their inner angles. 



Grange Eailway.— Sept. -Dee.- 

 Chili ; naturali.sed in southern 

 Europe. 



Amsinckia angustifolia. 



