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6. BORAGO (Borage). Calyx deeply 5-cleft ; corolla 

 wheel-shaped, its throat closed with 5 short, erect, 

 notched scales ; stamens forked. (Name, a corruption 

 of corago, from cor, the heart, and ago, to bring, from its 

 use in stimulating drinks.) 



7. LYGOPSIS (Bugloss). Calyx deeply 5-cleft ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, with a bent tube, its throat closed by 

 prominent blunt scales. (Name in Greek signifying 

 " a wolfs face," from some fancied resemblance between 

 the flower and a wolfs head.) 



8. ANCHUSA (Alkanet). Calyx deeply 5-cleft ; corolla 

 funnel or salver-shaped, with a straight tube, its throat 

 closed by prominent blunt scales. (Name from the 

 Greek, anchousa, paint, from the use of its roots as a dye.) 



9. MYOSOTIS (Scorpion Grass, Forget-me-not). Calyx 

 5-cleft ; corolla salver-shaped, its lobes blunt, twisted 

 when in bud, and its throat nearly closed by blunt 

 scales. (Name in Greek signifying a mouse's ear, from 

 the shape of the leaves.) 



10. ASPERUGO (Mad wort). Calyx 5-cleft, with alter- 

 nate smaller teeth ; corolla funnel-shaped, with rounded 

 scales in the throat. (Name from the Latin asper, rough, 

 from the excessive roughness of the leaves.) 



11. CYNOGLOSSUM (Hound's-tongue). Calyx -5-cleft ; 

 corolla funnel-shaped, with a short tube, its mouth 

 closed by prominent blunt scales ; nuts flattened, prickly. 

 (Name in Greek, signifying a dog's tongue, from the 

 shape and size of the leaves.) 



1. ECHIUM ( Viper's Bugloss). 



1. E. vulgdre (Common Viper's Bugloss). Eough 

 with prickly bristles ; leaves narrow, tapering ; flowers 

 in short lateral spikes ; stamens longer than the corolla. 

 Walls, old quarries and gravel-pits. A handsome 

 plant, 2 3 feet high, remarkable for its bristly or 

 almost prickly stems and leaves, and numerous curved 

 spikes of flowers, which on their first opening are bright 



