820 BORRAGINACE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



mcns mostly exserted, unequal. Style thread-form. Nutlets roughened or 

 wrinkled, fixed by a flat base. (A name of Dioscorides, from e^is, a viper.) 



1. E. VULG\RE, L. (BLUE-WEED.) Rough-bristly ; stem erect (2 high), 

 mostly simple ; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile ; flowers showy, in short 

 lateral spikes, disposed in a long and narrow raceme ; corolla reddish-purple 

 changing to brilliant blue (rarely pale). (2) lioad-sides and meadows : rather 

 rare northward; a troublesome weed in Virginia. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. JLYCOPSIS, L. BUGLOSS. 



Corolla funnel-shaped, with a curved tube and a slightly unequal limb ; the 

 throat closed with 5 convex obtuse bristly scales placed opposite the lobes. 

 Stamens and style included. Nutlets rough-wrinkled, hollowed out at the base. 

 Annuals. (Name from XVKOS, a wolf, and ctyiy, face.) 



1. Jit. ARVENSIS, L. (SMALL BUGLOSS.) Very rough-bristly (Thigh); 

 leaves lanceolate ; flowers in leafy racemes ; calyx as long as the tube of the 

 small blue corolla. Dry or sandy fields, New England to Virginia: scarce. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. SYUIPHYTUM, Toura. COMFREY. 



Corolla oblong-tubular, inflated above, 5-toothed ; the short teeth spreading ; 

 the throat closed with 5 converging linear-awl-shaped scales. Stamens in- 

 cluded : anthers elongated. Style thread form. Nutlets smooth, ovate, fixed 

 by a large hollowed base. Coarse perennial herbs, with thickened mucilagi- 

 nous roots ; the nodding racemes either single or in pairs. (Name from <ru/^>etp, 

 to grow together, probably in allusion to its reputed healing virtues.) 



1. S. OFFICINALE, L. (COMMON COMFREY.) Hairy, branched, winged 

 above by the decurrent leaves ; the lower ones ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a 

 petiole, the upper narrower; corolla yellowish-white, rarely purplish. Moist 

 places; sparingly escaped from gardens. June. (Adv. from Eu.) 



4. ONOSIttOWIUITI, Michx. FALSE CROMWELL. 



Calyx 5-parted ; the divisions linear and erect. Corolla tubular or tubular* 

 funnel-form, naked in the throat (the sinuses minutely hooded-inflcxed) ; the 5 

 acute lobes converging or somewhat spreading. Anthers oblong-linear or arrow- 

 shaped, mucronate, inserted in the throat of the corolla. Style thread-form, much 

 exserted. Nutlets bony, ovoid, smooth, fixed by the base ; the scar minute, not 

 hollowed out. Chiefly perennial herbs, coarse and hispid, with oblong and 

 sessile ribbed-veined leaves, and white, greenish, or - ellowish flowers, in at length 

 elongated and erect leafy racemes. Our species all belong to ONOSMODI c M 

 PKOPKU, having the anthers all included, smooth, and on very short filaments; 

 the corolla. only once or twice the length of the calyx. (Named from the re- 

 semblance to the genus Onosma.) 



1. O. Virgilliaillini, DC. Clothed all over with har*h and rigid oppressed 

 bristles; stems rather slender (l-2 high); leaves nairowlt/ oblong, or oblong- 



