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purple (ritrcly white, Sartwdl) ; nutlets flat on the broad upper face, somewhat 

 margined. (2) Waste grounds and pastures : a familiar and troublesome 

 weed; the large nutlets adhering to the tlccee of sheep, &c. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. C. Virginia Hill, L. (WiLD COMFREY.) Eouyhish with spreading 

 bristly hairs ; stem simple, few-leaved (2 -3 high); stem-leaves lauceolate-ob 

 long, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes few and corymbcd, reused on 

 a lon<j naked peduncle, bractless ; corolla pale blue ; nutlets strongly convex, y. 

 Rich woods, Vermont to Virginia along the mountains, and westward. 

 June. Flowers much smaller than in the last, much larger than in the next. 



3. C. IVIorisoiii, DC. (BEGGAR'S LICE.) Stem hairy, very broadly 

 branched, leafy (2 -4 high); leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, also tapering 

 at the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and roughish above ; racemes pant- 

 ckd, forking, diverging, hairy, leafy-bracted at the base ; corolla white or pale blue 

 (minute); pedicels reflexed in fruit; nutlets convex, the prickles with barbed 

 points. ( (Mvosotis Virginica, L. Echinospennum, Lehm.) Copses; com- 

 mon. July. A vile weed. 



1O. HEL.IOTR6PIUM, Tourn. HELIOTROPE. 



Corolla salver-shaped, short, 5-lobed ; the sinuses more or less plaited in the 

 bud ; the throat open. Anthers nearly sessile. Style short : stigma conical. 

 Nutlets 4, when young united by their whole inner faces into a 4-celled ovary, 

 but separating when ripe, each 1-seeded. Herbs or low shrubby plants, the 

 small flowers in 1 -sided spikes. (The ancient name, from 77X105, the sun, and 

 TPOTTTJJ a turn.) 



1. II. EUROPIUM, L. Erect (6' -18' high), hoary -pubescent; leaves oval, 

 long-petioled ; lateral spikes single, the terminal in pairs ; calyx spreading in 

 fruit, hairy. (< Waste places, Maryland, Virginia, &c. in a few places. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



H. CURASSAVICUM, L., has been gathered at Norfolk, Virginia: probably 

 brought in the ballast of vessels. It also grows at St. Louis. 



H. PERU vi AN UM, L., is the well-known SWEET HELIOTROPE in cultivation. 



11. HEL-IOPHYTUM, (Cham.) DC. INDIAN HELIOTROPE. 



Corolla constricted at the throat. Style very short. Nutlets 2, each 2-celled 

 (i. e. 4, in pairs), and sometimes with a pair of empty false cells besides : other- 

 wise nearly as in Heliotropium. (Name composed of 77X105, sun, and (pvrov, 

 plant.) 



1. H. INDICUM, DC. Erect, hairy ; leaves petioled, ovate or oval and 

 somewhat heart-shaped ; spikes single; fruit 2-cleft, mitre-shaped, splitting into 

 2 halves with an empty false cell before each seed-bearing cell, and these at 

 length separable again into 2 one-seeded and 2-cclIed nutlets. (j) (Heliotropium 

 Indicum, L.) Waste places, Illinois, opposite St. Louis, and southward. 

 (Adv. from India.) 



BORR\GO OFriciNALis, L., the cultivated BORAGE, is sometimes sponta- 



i)' .oiis in gardens. 



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