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402. Fruitlets beset with hooked asperities. 



Always herbs, often small ; flowers in racemes, always very 



small ; fruitlets high-connate. Lappula. 1668 



Fruitlets without any hooked asperities ... ... 403 



403. Fruitlets fixed somewhat laterally. 



Always herbs, often small ; flowers in racemes ; fruitlets 

 usually wrinkled. Eritrichuxn. 1669 



Fruitlets fixed at the base only ... ... ... 404 



404. Scale-like appendages at the base of the corolla-lobes 



present. 



Always herbs, often small ; racemes before flowering rolled 

 backward ; stigma unenlarged ; fruitlets smooth, shining. 

 "Forget-me-not." Myosotis. 1670 



Scale-like appendages at the base of the corolla-lobes 

 absent. 



Herbs or somewhat shrubby plants, rarely tall shrubs ; 

 flowers usually in spikes; anthers disconnected or coherent 

 at the summit ; stigma annular-enlarged ; fruitlets smooth, 

 coherent. Heliotr opium. 1671 



Z.ABZATAE. 



405. Calyx ending in five lobes or denticles ... ... 406 



Calyx ending in two lobes ... ... ... ... 413 



406. Lobes or denticles of the calyx unequal ... ... 407 



Lobes or denticles of the calyx almost equal... ... 409 



407. Pollen-bearing stamens two. 



Herbs or shrubs ; leaves comparatively large ; calyx pro- 

 ducing three upper denticles or one upper lobe and two 

 lower lobes ; rudimentary stamens two or absent ; often 

 only one cell of the anthers perfect, both cells distant from 

 each other. "Sage." Salvia. 1673 



Pollen-bearing stamens four ... ... ... ... 408 



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