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oblonrj-lanceolate, acute ; lobes of the rather broad corolla ovate-triangular or 

 triangular-lanceolate, thickly hirsute outside. Alluvial grounds, W. New York 

 to Minn., south to Ga. and Tex. 



Var. molle, Gray. Pubescence shorter and less spreading or oppressed, 

 1-2 high; leaves mostly smaller (2' long), when young softly strigose-canes- 

 cent beneath. (0. molle, Michx.) 111. to Minn., Tex., and westward. 



9. SYMPHYTUM, Touru. COMFREY. 



Corolla oblong-tubular, inflated above, 5-toothed , the short teeth spread- 

 ing ; the throat closed with 5 converging linear-awl-shaped scales. Stamens 

 included ; anthers elongated. Style thread-form. Nutlets smooth, ovate, 

 erect, fixed by the large hollowed base, which is finely toothed on its mar- 

 gin. Coarse perennial herbs, with thickened bitterish mucilaginous roots ; 

 the nodding raceme-like clusters either single or in pairs. (Ancient Greek 

 name from ffu^elv, to grow together, probably for its reputed healing virtues.) 



S. OFFICINALE, L. (COMMON COMFREY.) Hairy, branched, winged 

 above by the decurrent leaves; the lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering 

 into a petiole, the upper narrower ; corolla yellowish-white, rarely purplish. 

 Moist places ; escaped from gardens. June. (Adv. from Eu.) 



10. LYCOPSIS, L. BUGLOSS. 



Corolla funnel-shaped, with curved tube and slightly unequal limb ; the 

 throat closed with 5 convex obtuse bristly scales opposite the lobes. Stamens 

 and style included. Nutlets rough-wrinkled, erect, fixed by a hollowed-out 

 base. Annuals. (Name from Awcos, a wolf, and 6\l/ts,facc.) 



L. ARVENSIS, L. (SMALL BUGLOSS.) Very rough-bristly (1 high) ; 

 leaves lanceolate ; flowers in leafy raceme-like clusters ; calyx as long as the 

 tube of the small blue corolla. Dry or sandy fields, New Eng. to Va. ; 

 scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



11. ECHIUM, Tourn. VIPER'S BUGLOSS. 



Corolla with a cyliudraceous or funnel-form tube, and a more or less un- 

 equal spreading 5-lobed border ; lobes rounded, the expanded throat naked. 

 Stamens mostly exserted, unequal. Style thread-form. Nutlets roughened or 

 wrinkled, fixed by a flat base. (A name of Dioscorides, from <lx is > a viper.) 



E. VULGARE, L. (BLUE-WEED.) Rough-bristly biennial; stem erect 

 (2 high), mostly simple ; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile ; flowers showy, 

 in short lateral clusters, disposed in a long and narrow thyrsus ; corolla red- 

 dish-purple changing to brilliant blue (rarely pale). Roadsides and meadows 

 of the Middle Atlantic States. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



ORDEH 73. CCXXVOLVULACE^E. (CONVOLVULUS FAMILY.) 



Chiefly tunning or trailing herbs, often u'ith some milky juice, with 

 alternate leaves (or scales) and regular 5-androus flowers ; a calyx of 5 

 imbricated sepals ; a 5-plaited or b-lobed corolla convolute or twisted in 

 the bud (imbricate in n. 6) ; a 2-celled (rarely 3-celled) ovary (or in one 

 tribe 2 separate pistils'), with a pair of erect ovules in each, cell, the cells 

 sometimes doubled by a false partition between the seeds, so becoming 

 ^-celled ; the embryo large, curved or coiled in mucilaginous albumen. 

 Fruit a globular 2-6-seeded capsule. Flowers mostly showy, on axil- 

 lary peduncles; pedicels articulated, often 2-bracted. (Many are culti- 



