BORRAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 555 



slender, hispid, as long as fruiting calyx ; fruiting calyx little enlarged, 

 .013 long, lobes linear; corolla cream-colored, one-third longer than 

 calyx; nutlets .002 long, ovate-pyramidal, glabrous, glossy — April to 

 June — Waste places and fields ; common to 1200 m. 



13, O. auriculatum, Auch. If . 3 to . 8, pale green or grey, 

 appressed-stellate-pubescent and hairy; root fusiform; stem thick, 

 densely leafy, panicled. Lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering to 

 a petiole, the intermediate dilated^ auricled at base. Panicle .3 to A 

 long; bracts s^ibcordate-triangular, more or less tapering ; pedicels slen- 

 der, hispid, scarcely shorter than fruiting calyx; calyx .01 long, lobes 

 liiiear-spathiUate; corolla pale cream-colored, one-third longer than 

 calyx; nutlets .002 long, ovate-triquetrous, oblique, glabrous, glossy — 

 April and May — Waste places and fields ; Plains of Palestine (Tristram). 



A form was found by the author on Jebel Husha', with the au- 

 ricled stem-leaves of O. auriculatum, and the linear calyx-lobes of O. 

 giganteum, and cordate-lanceolate, acuminate bracts, intermediate be- 

 tween the two species. Nos. 12 and 13 are therefore probably one 

 species. 



25. POOOIVOSMA, Boiss. Podonosma. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla tubular, with naked throat, furnished 

 with a circular nectary. Filaments adnate below to corolla ; anthers 

 sagittate at base, long appendaged at apex, exserted. Style glabrous, 

 with indistinct stigma. Nutlets curved, inserted by a basilar, flat, sub- 

 stipitate areola, and ending in a horizontal beak — Perennial herbs 

 with aspect, indument, and nutlets of Alkanua, and flowers differing 

 from those of Ouosma principally by the long-appendagcd, exserted 

 anthers. 



P. Syriacum, Labill. If .3 to .5, glandular-pubescent, with 

 intermixture of hairs with tubercled base, very brittle; branches dense- 

 ly leafy. Leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 the lower tapering at base, the upper half-clasping. Racemes leafy, 

 at first capitate, then long, loose; calyx growing to .01 in fruit, lobes 

 linear from a broader base, longer than fruiting pedicel, more than half 

 as long as corolla; corolla bluish, .01 long; nutlets .002 long including 

 beak, minutely tubercled — Spring — Fissures of rocks and walls ; 

 common throughout to 1500 m. 



26. CERII^THE, L. Honeywort. 



Calyx 5-parted, lobes leaf-like, unequal. Corolla tubular, naked 

 at throat. Anthers hastate, with divergent lobes at base, and an acute 

 appendix at tip. Style filiform, capitate. Nuts 2, ovate, almost long, 

 composed of twin nutlets; basilar areola flat — Annual, biennial, or 

 perennial herbs. 



1. C. minor, L. (D If .3 to .5, glabrous, glaucescent, erect, 

 branching above. Leaves smooth or beset with a few warts, the lower 

 oblong-spathulate, .1 to .2 long, tapering to a petiole, the upper cor- 

 date-oblong, sessile. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, more or less ciliate, in 

 fruit enlarged ; corolla yellow, sometimes purple, spotted at throat, once 

 and a half as long as calyx, cleft for more than one-third of its length into 



