GARDEN BOTANY. 



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ORDER BDRRAGINACE^I. BORRAGE FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 319. A number of species are cultivated for ornament. 



OTary deeply 4-lobed (the style rising from the centre between the 



lobes), each in fruit forming a distinct nutlet. 



Corolla rather irregular, blue: the stamens exserted. . Man. p. 319. ECHIUM. 

 Corolla regular, and 



Trumpet-shaped, no scales in the throat: smooth plants. Man. p. 323. MERTENSIA. 

 Tabular, enlarged above, with long scales closing the throat: 



rough and coarse plants. Man. p. 320. SYMPIIYTUM 



Rotate, with scales closing the throat : rough-bristly plants. . 1. BORRAGO. 

 Short salver-form or very short funnel-form , throat partly closed 



by short scales : delicate plants. 

 Nutlets or lobes of the ovary attached by their base only, 



erect, smooth and even 2. MYOSOTIS. 



Nutlets or lobes of the ovary fixed to the base of the style, 



cupped when full grown 3. OMPIIALODES. 



Ovary not lobed, the style or stigma borne on its summit. . . 4. IIELIOTHOPIUM. 



.1. BorragO officinalis, BORRAGE. A rough, hairy annual or biennial 

 of country gardens, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, and rather large flowers j 

 corolla exactly rotate, 5-parted, blue, with dark projecting anthers. 



2. Myosotis, FORGET-ME-NOT. The cultivated sorts are varieties of No. 1, 

 in Manual, p. 323, and of 



M. sylvatica, with a rather stout perennial root, bright blue corolla, 

 and 5-parted calyx, erect when in fruit, its hairs spreading and minutely hooked. 



3. Omphalodes verna, BLUE NAVELWORT. Flower? like those of a 

 Forget-me-not, but larger, produced in early spring, bright azure-blue ; leaves 

 ovate, the radical ones cordate and long-petiolecl ; plant spreading by runners 

 and creeping rootstocks. 



4. Heliotropium Peruvianum, SWEET PERUVIAN HELIOTROPE. The 



common shrubby species of house cultivation, with vanilla-scented pale blue- 

 )urple flowers, and ovate-lanceolate rugose-veiny leaves. 



H. COi'ymbosum, cultivated with the other, has rougher leaves and 

 ;pcr-colored and larger flowers, of much less fragrance. 



ORDER HYDROPHYLLACE^E. WATERLEAF FAMILT. 



The synopsis of the genera, Man. p. 326, will serve, adding the followJnc spe 

 cies, cultivated for ornament ; also Whitlavia, nearly all Californian RUhValg, 



1. Nemo'phila insignis. Flowers bright blue, 1 in diameter, very ?ong 

 ped uncled ; leaves deeply pinnatifid. 



"N. atomaria. Flowers smaller, white, finely spotted with chocolate. 

 !N". macttlata. Flowers white, with a large violet blotch on each loin? 



2. Phacelia congesta, from Texas ; pubescent, with irregular pinnrtf* 

 leaves, the leaflets ovate or oblong, incised ; flowers in a compact cyme, small, 

 blue ; stamen. j scarcely exserted. 



P. tanacetifolia, from California, is taller, bristly-hairy ; the leaflets 

 linear-oblong and pinnatifid ; flowers larger, crowded ; stamens long-exscrteu. 



P. (Eutoca) viscida, from California ; clammy-pubescent, leaves ovate, 

 serrate ; flowers large, deep blue, in a loose raceme ; pod many-seeded. 



