alms 

 base 



BORAGINACEAE (BOKAGE FAMILY) 679 



5. HYDRdLEA L. 



Corolla 5-cleft. Filaments dilated at base. Capsule globular, with very 

 large and fleshy many-seeded placentae, thin-walled, 2-4-valved or bursting 

 irregularly. Seeds minute, striate-ribbed. Herbaceous or scarcely shrubby, 

 growing in water or wet places, often having spines in the leaf-axils, and clus- 

 tered blue flowers. (Name unexplained, doubtless in part from vdup, water, in 

 allusion to the aquatic habitat.) NAMA L., in part. 



1. H. affiinis Gray. Glabrous throughout; stem ascending from a creeping 

 ; leaves lanceolate, tapering to a very short petiole ; flowers in small axillary 



leafy-bracted clusters ; divisions of calyx lance-ovate, equaling the corolla and 

 the irregularly bursting globose capsule. Banks of streams, etc. , 111. to Tenn. 

 and Tex. June- Aug. 



2. H. quadrivalvis Walt. Similar, but villous-hispid above; divisions of 

 calyx linear or linear-lanceolate. Wet ground, Va., and south w. July-Sept. 



3. H. ovata Nutt. Hirsute or puberulent ; leaves ovate ; flowers in terminal 

 leafy panicles ; calyx hirsute, with lanceolate divisions shorter than the corolla. 

 Mo. to La. and Tex. June-Aug. 



BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



Chiefly rough-hairy herbs, with alternate entire leaves, and symmetrical 

 flowers with a 5-parted calyx, a regular b-lobed corolla (except in Echium), 

 5 stamens inserted on its tube, a single style and a usually deeply 4-lobed ovary 

 (as in Labiatae) , forming in fruit 4 seed-like l-seeded nutlets, or separating into 

 two 2-seeded or four l-seeded nutlets. Albumen none. Cotyledons plano- 

 convex ; radicle pointing to the apex of the fruit. Stigmas 1 or 2. Calyx 

 valvate, the corolla imbricated (in Myosotis convolute) in the bud. Flowers 

 mostly on one side of the branches of a reduced cyme, imitating a spike or 

 raceme, which is rolled up from the end, and straightens as the blossoms 

 expand (circinate or scorpioid), often bractless. A rather large family of 

 innocent mucilaginous and slightly bitter plants ; the roots of some species 

 yielding a red dye. 



N.B. In this family the figures represent the inflorescence (or a portion 

 of it) x f and details (flower, fruiting calyx, or nutlet) x 2. 



Tribe I. HELIOTROPlEAE. Ovary not lobed ; fruit separating into 2-4 nutlets. 



1. Heliotropium. Corolla salver-forrn. Stamens included. Nutlets 1-2-celled. 



Tribe II. BORAGfNEAE. Ovary deeply 4-parted, forming as many separate l-seeded nutlets in 

 fruit; style rising from the center between them. 



* Nutlets attached laterally. 

 -t- Nutlets armed with prickles ; throat of corolla closed by 5 scales. 



2. Cynoglossum. Nutlets horizontally radiate, much produced downward, covered with barbed 



prickles. 



3. Lappula. Nutlets erect or ascending, the margin or back armed with barbed prickles. 



-- -H Nutlets at most granular-roughened. 



4. Amsinckia. Calyx simply but deeply 5-cleft. Corolla yellow, with slender tube and open 



throat. 



5. Asperugo. Calyx with 5 broad flat veiny lobes and 5 smaller alternating ones. Corolla blue. 



* * Nutlets attached at or near the base, smooth or merely wrinkled, not prickly. 



+- Throat of corolla closed by 5 scales. 

 M- Corolla and stamens regular ; achene with large excavated scar. 



6. Symphytum. Corolla short-tubular, enlarged above, closed by 5 linear-subulate scales. 



