DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 137 



a. H. Californicus Watson. Leaves many in a cluster at base. 

 Corolla oblong-campanulate, tvith the lobes longer than the tube, about 

 half an inch long. From California in the Sierra Nevada to Wash- 

 ington ; blooming as soon as the snow melts. 



b. H. pu'milus Porter. Leaves fewer. Corolla nearly rotate, its 

 lobes longer than the tube which is densely bearded within, about half an 

 inch across. Same range and time of blooming as the preceding. 



BORRAGINA'CEJE, BORAGE FAMILY 



Herbs usually with stems and leaves, rough-hairy. Leaves 

 alternate, entire, without stipules. Flowers in panicles, 

 cymes, or ra^mes, coiled at the tips, usually on one side of 

 the peduncles. Calyx 5-parted or cleft. Corolla salver-form. 

 Stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla, alternating with 

 its lobes. Ovules 4, solitary, at the base of the simple style, 

 usually all ripening into 4 nutlets. The coiled flower clusters 

 become straight as the flowers open. 



I. HELIOTRO'PIUM, Heliotrope 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form. Stamens with short 

 filaments or none, and anthers sometimes cohering by their 

 pointed tips. Style simple or none, with an umbrella-shaped 

 stigma. Seeds with endosperm. 



H. Curassa'vicum L. Smooth, glaucous, succulent, prostrate 

 herbs, growing in moist, salty or alkaline places. Flowers white or 

 pale violet in dense spikes, which are generally 2-forked. Widely 

 distributed. 



II. AMSINCK'IA, Fiddle-neck, Woolly Breeches 



Hairy annuals, with conspicuous yellow or orange flowers in 

 curved spikes or racemes without bracts. Many are covered with 

 bristly hairs that have a pustulate base. Calyx 5-parted. 

 Corolla funnel-form, with the tube longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens with short filaments included in the corolla. Stigmas 

 2-lobed, capitate. Nutlets ovate-triangular, attached above 

 the base to a narrow pyramidal column called the gynobase. 

 The species are difficult to distinguish. 



