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BORAGINE^;. 



[CT.ASS 



up of as many superimposed axes as there are flower- 

 bearing pedicels : the 4-lobed ovary, resulting from 2 

 carpels each divided by an inflected dorsal suture, so that 

 the lobes, each I -seeded, become separately detached 

 when ripe : the style springing from the centre and base 

 of the lobes of the ovary, termed gynobasic. 



The herbage of Boragineas is often very coarse and 

 hispid. A few species are common in flower-beds, as the 

 Heliotrope. 



The brownish-red dye Alkanet-root is obtained from 

 Anchusa tinctoria^ cultivated in the South of Europe. 



46. Natural Order Solanaceae. The Nightshade 

 Family. 



DISTRIBUTION. Most numerous in tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions of both hemispheres. British genera 3, 

 species 4. 



Herbs or shrubs. Stamens same number as corolla-lobes. 

 Ovary 2-celled, ovules indefinite. 



Type Bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara). 



A straggling deciduous shrub, with alternate petiolate 

 often auricled leaves, and loose extra-axillary cymes of 

 purple flowers. 



OBSERVE the frequently geminate leaves and extra- 

 axillary inflorescence of the Order : the persistent accres- 

 cenjt calyx of Winter Cherry ((Phy satis Alkekengt), grown 



