uorragixacejE. (borage fajuilt.) 325 



purple (rarely white, Sartwell) ; nutlets fiat on the broad upper face, somewhat 

 margined. © — Waste grounds and pastures : a familiar and troublesome 

 weed ; the large nutlets adhering to the fleece of sheep, &c. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. C. Virgmicum, L. (Wild Comfrey.) Roughish with spreading 

 bristly hairs ; stem simple, few-leaved (2° -3° high) ; stem-leaves lanceolate-ob 

 long, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes few and corymbed, raised on 

 a long naked peduncle, bractless ; corolla pale blue; nutlets strongly convex. 1J. 

 — Rich woods, Vermont to Virginia along the mountains, and westward. 

 June. — Flowers much smaller than in the last, much larger than in the next. 



3. C. ITIorisoni, DC. (Beggar's Lice.) Stem hairy, very broadly 

 branched, leafy (2° -4° high) ; leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, also tapering 

 at the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and roughish above ; racemes poin- 

 ded, forking, diverging, hairy, leafy-bracted at the base ; corolla white or pale blue 

 (minute); pedicels reflexed in fruit; nutlets convex, the prickles with barbed 

 points. (Myosotis Virginica, L. Echinospermurn, Lehm.) — Copses; com- 

 mon. July. — A vile weed. 



10. HELIOTBOPIUM, Tourn. Heliotrope. 



Corolla salver-shaped, short, 5-lobed ; the sinuses more or less plaited in the 

 bud ; the throat open. Anthers nearly sessile. Style short : stigma conical. 

 Nutlets 4, when young united by their whole inner faces into a 4-cellcd ovary, 

 but separating when ripe, each 1-seeded. — Herbs or low shrubby plants, the 

 small flowers in 1 -sided spikes. (The ancient name, from rjXios, the sun, and 

 Tponfj, a turn.) 



1. H. EuROP-kr/M, L. Erect (6' -18' high), hoary-pubescent; leaves oval, 

 long-petioled ; lateral spikes single, the terminal in pairs ; calyx spreading in 

 fruit, hairy. ©—Waste places, Maryland, Virginia, &c. in a few places. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



H. Curassayiccm, L., has been gathered at Norfolk, Virginia: probably 

 brought in the ballast of vessels. It also grows at St. Louis. 

 H. Peruvianum, L., is the well-known Sweet Heliotrope in cultivation. 



11. HELIOPMYTUM, (Cham.) DC. Indian Heliotrope. 



Corolla constricted at the throat. Style very short. Nutlets 2, each 2-celled 

 (i. e. 4, in pairs), and sometimes with a pair of empty false cells besides : other- 

 wise nearly as in Heliotropium. (Name composed of 17X105, sun, and (pvrov, 

 plant.) 



1. II. Ixdicum, DC. Erect, hairy; leaves petioled, ovate or oval and 

 somewhat heart-shaped ; spikes single ; fruit 2-cleft, mitre-shaped, splitting into 

 2 halves with an empty false cell before each seed-bearing cell, and these at 

 length separable again into 2 one-sccded and 2-celled nutlets. (T) (Heliotropium 

 Indicum, L.) — Waste places, Illinois, opposite St. Louis, and southward. 

 (Adv. from India.) 



Borrago officinalis, L., the cultivated Borage, is sometimes sponta- 

 neous in gardens. 



