560 ORDER 90. BORRAGINACE^E. 



1 B. officinalis L. Lvs. ovate, alternate, the lower ones petiolate ; cal. spread- 

 ing; ped. terminal, many-flowered; filaments included. (J) A common inbabitant 

 of the garden. The whole plant is rough with short, bristly hairs, erect, 2f high, 

 with terminal clusters of handsome, sky-blue flowers during summer. It was 

 Ibrtnerly in high repute as a cordial. The young leaves form a good salad and 

 pot-herb. \ Eur. 



2 B. orientalis. Lvs. cordate, petiolate ; ped. many-flowered : fil. exserted, vil- 

 lous. (J) An ornamental garden plant, E. Eur. Stem and leaves hairy. Flowers 

 blue, appearing in the spring mouths. \ (Psilostemon, DC.) 



6. SYM'PHYTUM, Tonrn. COMFREY. (Gr. ov[i<j>vaig, a joining or 

 healing ; from its reputation for healing wounds.) Calyx 5-parted ; 

 corolla tubular-campanulate, orifice closed with 5, subulate scales, con- 

 verging into a cone ; achenia smooth, ovoid fixed by an excavated base. 

 U Oriental herbs. 



S. officinale L. Hairy, branching above; Ivs. extensively decurrent, the lower 

 and radical petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, upper and floral lanceolate ; sep. lanceolate, 

 acuminate; cor. limb with 5-recurved teeth. A large, coarse-looking mucilagi- 

 nous plant, in gardens and low grounds, Mid. States. Whole plant rough with 

 dense hairs. Stem 3 if high, winged by the decurrent leaves, bearing terminal, 

 revolute racemes. Corollas white, pink and red, appearing all summer. \ 



7. LYCOP SIS, L. WILD BUGLOSS. (Gr. XVKO$, a wolf, and <ty, the 

 eye; name suggested by the small blue flowers.) Calyx 5-cleft ; corolla 

 funnel-form, tube incurved, orifice closed with ovate, converging scales; 

 achenia perforated at base, ovoid, angular. (J) Distinguished mainly 

 by the curved corolla tube. 



L. arv^nsis L. Plant hispid ; Ivs. lanceolate, repand-denticulate ; rac. leafy ; fls- 

 sessile ; cal. shorter than the curved tube of the corolla. A very hispid, almost 

 bristly plant, in fields and roadsides, N. States, probably introduced. Stem erect, 

 branching, roundish, about a foot high. Leaves 5 or 6 times as long as wide, the 

 margin irregularly and slightly toothed. Fls. small. Calyx erect. Corolla sky- 

 blue with white scales within. June, July. S. Eur. 



8. ONOSRIO'DIUM, MX. (From Onosma, another genus of this order, 

 and e?(k>f, appearance.) Calyx deeply 5-parted, with linear segments; 

 corolla cylindrical, having a ventricous, half 5-cleft limb, with the seg- 

 ments converging and the orifice open ; anthers sessile, sagittate, in- 

 cluded ; style much exserted ; achenia imperforate, whitish, shining. 

 H North American. Rac. terminal, subspicate, one-sided. Fls. white. 



1 O. Virglnicum Alph. DC. Clothed with appressed, stiff bristles from a tuber- 

 cular base ; Ivs. oblong, sessile, entire, acute or rather obtuse, 5-veined, cal. very 

 bristly, lobes lance-linear; cor. hispid or nearly smooth, a third longer than the 

 calyx, the segm. lance-subulate; anth. strongly sagittate. Dry soils, N. Eng. to Fla. 

 and La. Plant mostly erect, 15 to 30' high, branching, very rough. Lvs. varia- 

 ble, 15 to 30 ' by 5 to 9". Floral Ivs. bractlike. Cor. 4 to"5" long. Jn. Aug. 

 (0. hispidum MX.) 



2 O. Carolinianum DC. Tall, clothed with long ,-spreading, rusty-white, bristly 

 hairs tubercled at base; Ivs. lance-oblong, sessile, entire, 1-veined, acute, gradually 

 diminished upwards ; fls. shaggy, bristly ; cal. lobes lance-oblong ; cor. near twico 

 longer, limb dilated, segm. ovate, obtusiih; anth. linear-oblong, cells scarcely di- 

 verging at base. By streams, W. N. Y. to Wis., La. and Ga. St. hollow, 2 to 

 4f high, branched. Lvs. 2 to 3' or more long, near 1' wide. Cor. 5 to C". Ach. 

 large, white. May Jl. Varies in leaves and hairiness. 



P. MOLLK. Bristles short, appressed, and on the lower surface of the oblong-ovate 

 Ivs. soft doivny, except the 7 prominent, bristly veins. Plant smaller. Lvs. 

 approaching to ovate, cento cr obtuse. (0. mollc- MX.) Chiefly S. Western. 



