BORAGINACEAE BORAGE FAMILY 
The Borage family consists of about 1500 species, mostly 
herbs, some shrubs and a few tropical trees. The family is well 
represented in America and its members are especially abun- 
dant in the Mediterranean regions of Europe and Africa. 
The best known cultivated flowers of this family are the 
Heliotropes and the Forget-me-nots. The original Forget-me- 
nots, “that grow for happy lovers,” according to Tennyson, are 
natives of Europe and Asia where the type species, Myosotis 
scorpioides L., has been cultivated in gardens for centuries. 
It was brought to America by early settlers and now has spread 
extensively along the Atlantic coast, inland along the Great 
Lakes and into Illinois. It is found here rarely as are the two or 
three native American species, which are, however, just as 
“true.” 
Most members of the family may be easily recognized by 
the 5 stamens and deeply 4-lobed ovary. In the Heliotropes, 
however, the ovary is not lobed but splits into 4 parts in fruit. 
KEY TO GENERA 
MOAR GL IOBER wa ce ot kes bees ee Heliotropium p. 260 
Uf AS CS in nee anne ee remeaer A es Be 2. 
oeeceubriwtruit. burlike. 20.0... 6... ee - o e  e  e 3 
Sear smootn-truit.not burlike................ .9.d 32... tee 4 
qaeiewers tcadish purple... .. 5.202... .. 25. Cynoglossum p. 261 
Flowers white or whitish, small............... Lappula p. 262 
neater aud leaves smooth. 7... 2.22. a8 Feo. Mertensia p. 263 
Meena leaves Haity. 260. Pls. 2. lee foe ee 5 
s. Corolla funnelform, lobes spreading........Lithospermum p. 264 
oerolla tubular, lobes erect..-.......-2-.:. Onosmodium p. 266 
THE END OF SUMMER 
When poppies in the garden bleed, 
And coreopsis goes to seed, } : 
And pansies, blossoming past their prime, 
Grow small and smaller all the time, 
When on the mown field, shrunk and dry, 
Brown dock and purple thistie lie, 
And smoke from forest fires at noon 
Can make the sun appear the moon, 
When apple seeds, all white before, 
Begin to darken in the core, 
I know that summer, scarcely here, 
Is gone until another year. 
Epna Sr. VINCENT MILLAY 
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