224 Plants collected during a journey 



BORAGINEjE. 



2S9. Heliotropium curassavicum, L. Willd. sp.pl. i. 

 p. 743. Ell. sk. i. p. 224. Kunth syn. ii. p. 206. Saline 

 soils on the Platte. 



290. Pulmonaria alpina, glabriuscula ; caule simplici 

 assurgente; foliis ovato-spathulatis, inferioribus acutis, superi- 

 oribus acuminatis, supra pilosiusculis, margine minute ciliatis; 

 floribusfasciculato-terminalibus, subsessilibus, corollis calyce 

 vix duplo-longioribus, laciniis calycis oblongis, obtusiusculis, 

 ciliatis. 



Desc. Root perennial. Stem assurgent, clothed at the base with vesti- 

 ges of leaves, smooth, about 6 inches high. Leaves alternate, lower ones 

 ovate-spathulate, acute, upper ovate, acute, sprinkled with appressed hairs 

 on the upper surface, very smooth beneath. Flowers in terminal fascicles 

 crowded, on short pedicels, about 3 lines long, beautiful blue. Calyx 

 deeply 5-parted, ciliate and somewhat hairy, oblong, rather obtuse, more 

 than half as long as the corolla. Corolla subcampanulate, with 5 minute 

 scales in the throat ; border 5-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Stamens included; 

 anthers linear-oblong. 



Hab. On the Rocky Mountains. 

 bs. This species appears to be allied to P. parviflora of 

 Michaux, a plant which I have never seen. 



291. P. ciliata, glabra, erecta? foliis ovato-lanceolatis, 

 utrinque attenuatis, margine ciliatis ; floribus fasciculato-pani- 

 culatis, pedicellatis, corollis tubuloso-campanulatis, calycibus 

 abbreviatis quinquepartitis ; laciniis ovatis, obtusis. 

 P. ciliata, James. Catalog. 1. c. 



Desc. Stem about a foot high, smooth, simple. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, very acute or acuminate, narrowed at the base, smooth, upper surface 

 punctate, margin distinctly ciliate with short whitish hairs. Flowers nu- 

 merous in an irregular terminal panicle ; pedicels slender, fasciculate. 

 Cahjx very short, 5-parted ; segments ovate, obtuse, smooth. Corolla 

 tubular-companulate, blue ; border erect, 5-lobed ; tube slightly ventri- 

 cose, throat partially closed with 5 yellowish protuberances. Stamens in- 

 cluded ; anthers linear. Style exserted, filiform. Seeds somewhat tuber- 

 culate. 



