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7. OMPHAL6DES. (Name from the Greek, refers to the navel-shaped 

 depression on the upper face of the nutlets.) Cult, from Eu. for ornament. 

 O. verna, BLUE or SPRING NAVELWOKT. Spreading by leafy runners ; 



leaves ovate or somewhat heart-shaped, 2' - 3' long, pointed, green ; flowers 

 azure-blue, in spring, y. 



O. linifblia, WHITE N. Erect, 6' -12' high, loosely branched, very pale 

 or glaucous, with broadly lanceolate leaves sparingly ciliate. the upper sessile, 

 white or bluish flowers, and turgid nutlets toothed around the margin of the 

 cavity. 



8. ECHINOSPERMUM, STICKSEED. (Name of two Greek words 

 for hedgehog and seed, from the nutlets ) 



E. Lappula. Weed of waste grounds, especially N., roughish-hairy, erect, 

 l-2 high, with lanceolate leaves, small blue flowers, and nutlets with rough- 

 tubercled back and thickly-prickled margins : fl. all summer. 



9. CYNOGLOSSUM, HOUNDSTONGUE (which the name means in 

 Greek). Fl. summer. Nutlets form burs which adhere to fleece. 



C. officinale, COMMON H. Coarse weed from Europe, common in pas- 

 tures and roadsides : leafy, soft-pubescent, with spatulate or lance-oblong 

 leaves, the upper ones closely sessile, crimson purple corolla, and flat somewhat 

 margined nutlets. 



C. Virginicum, WILD COMFREY. Rich woods: bristly-hairy; with 

 simple stem leafless above and bearing a few corymbed naked racemes of blue 

 flowers, the stem leaves lance-oblong with heart-shaped clasping base, the nut- 

 lets very convex. 11 



C. Morisoni, BEGGAR'S LICE. Thickets and open woods : a common 

 weed, 2 -4 high, with slender widely spreading branches, thin oblong-ovate 

 leaves tapering to both ends, forking and diverging racemes of very small 

 whitish or bluish flowers on pedicels rettexed in fruit, and convex barbed-prickly 

 small nutlets. 



10. LYCOPSIS, BUGLOSS. (Name of Greek words for uW/and face or 

 aspect,) European weeds. Fl. summer. 



L. aryensis, FIELD or SMALL BUGLOSS. Very rough-bristly weed, about 

 1 high, in sandy fields E. ; with lance-oblong leaves, and small blue corolla 

 little exceeding the calyx. 



11. SYMPHYTUM, COMFREY. (From Greek word meaning to qrow 

 together or unite, alluding probably to supposed healing properties.) Cult, 

 from Old World : fl. summer. # 



S. Officinale, COMMON C. Rather soft-hairy ; the branches winged by 

 the decurrent bases of the oblong-lanceolate leaves ; corolla yellowish-white. 

 Naturalized sparingly in moist grounds. 



S. asperrimum, ROUGH C. Cult, in some gardens : stem and widely 

 spreading branches excessively rough with short and somewhat recurved little 

 prickles, not winged ; calyx-lobes short ; corolla reddish purple in bud changing 

 to blue. 



12. HELIOTROPIUM, HELIOTROPE (i. e., in Greek, turning to the 

 sun). Fl. all summer. 



# Spikes only in pairs, or the lateral ones solitary : flowers white. 

 H. Curassavicum. Sandy shores and banks from Virginia and Illinois 



S. : very smooth and pale ; leaves oblong, spatulate, or lance-linear, thickish, 



veinless 



H. Europseum. Old gardens and waste places S., introduced from Eu. ; 



hoary-downy, 6' -18' high; leaves oval, long-petioled, veiny. 



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