BORAGINACEAE 217 



1. M Yirgfnica, DC. Stem nearly erect; upper leaves lance- 

 oblong, lower ones finally roundish-obovate ; racemes elongated in 

 fruit ; corolla naked in the throat. 

 Pulmonaria Virginica. L. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 117. 

 VIRGINIAN MERTENSIA. Virginia Cowslip. Smooth Lung-wort. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, angular, succulent, a little branched at summit. Lower 

 leaves 3 to 6 inches long, on petioles 2 to 5 inches long; upper leaves gradually 

 smaller, and becoming subsessile. Corolla, near an inch long, with an annular tuft 

 of hairs on the inside, near the base. Disk hearing 2 glands as long as the ovaries. 

 Hob. Low grounds; along streams: frequent. Fl. April. Fr. June. 



Obs. This plant glabrous among the asperifoliae ! is rather 

 showy, and pretty, often finding a place in flower-gardens, 

 g 2. Nutlets affixed laterally to the base of the style. 



316. CYtfOGL-OS'SIIM, Tournef. 

 [Or. Kyon, a dog, and Gtossa, a t9ngue ; from the form of the leaves.] 

 Corolla funnel-form; lobes rounded; tube about as long as the 

 calyx ; throat closed by 5 obtuse scales. Stamens included. Nutlets 

 depressed, or convex, more or less covered with short barbed or 

 hooked prickles. Flowers mostly in paniculate, or corymbose, naked 

 racemes. 



f Racemes not bracteate, 



1. C. offidnale, L. Softly pubescent; stem paniculate above, leafy; 

 tipper leaves lanceolate, sessile ; nutlets depressed. 



OFFICINAL CYNOGLOSSUM. Hound's-tongue. 



Biennial. Stem about 2 feet high. Radical leaves 9 to 12 inches in length, lance- 

 oblong, petiolate ; stem-leaves 3 to 6 inches long. Pacemes 2 to 5 inches long, mostly 

 erect, secund ; pedicels % to % an inch in length ; corolla reddish or purplish' 

 brown (sometimes milk white). 

 Hob. Waste places. Nat. of Europe. Fl. May. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. Naturalized about old settlements. The disagreeable odor 

 of this species has been compared to that of nests of young mice. 



2. C. VirginiCUIIl, L. Hirsute ; stem simple, few-leaved ; 

 stem-leaves oblong, clasping, and sub-auriculate at base; racemes 

 corymbed, on a long naked peduncle. 



VIRGINIAN CYNOGLOSSUM. Wild Comfrey. 



Perennial. Stem about 2 feet high, rather slender, mostly leafless for 6 or 8 

 inches below the corymb. Radical leaves about 6 inches long, oval or lance-obovate, 

 narrowed at base to & petiole about 3 inches in length ; stem-leaves 1 or 2 to 6 inches 

 long, diminishing as they ascend. Flowers few, in a terminal corymbose panicle, 

 of 2 or 3 principal pedunculate racemes 1 to 2 or 3 inches in length; pedicels % to 

 % of an inch long ; corotta pale blue, or rather bluish-white. 

 Bah. Rich woodlands : common. Fl. May. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. The root of this is a popular medicine, similar to that of 

 the Garden Comfrey, and about as efficacious. 



f f Racemes bracteate, but the pedicels extra-axillary. 



3. C. 91 orisunl, DC. Stem hairy, leafy, divaricately branched 

 above ; leaves ovate-lanceolate ; racemes slender, paniculate, forked. 

 Echinospermum Virginicum. Lehm. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 121. 

 MORISON'S CYNOGLOSSUM. Beggar's Lice. 



