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purple (rarely white, Sartwell) ; nutlets flat on the broad upper face, somewhat 

 margined. @ Waste grounds and pastures: a familiar and troublesome 

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



2. C. Virgin icuiM, L. (WiLD COMFREY.) Roughish with spreading 

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

 long, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes Jew and coryinbed, raised on 

 a long naked peduncle, bractlcss ; corolla pale blue; nutlets strongly convex, y. 

 Jfich 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. Rlorisoili, 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 pani- 

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

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

 points. (Myosotis Virginica, L. Echinospermum, Lehm.) Copses ; com- 

 mon. July. A vile weed. 



1O. HELSOTROPIUM, 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, th* 

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

 rpoTrr), a turn.) 



I. 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, (l) Waste Dlaces, Maryland, Virginia, c. in a few places 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



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

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



H. PERUVIANUM, L., is the well-known SWEET HELIOTROPE in cultivation. 



11. HELIOPII YTUM, (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- 

 vise nearly as in Heliotropium. (Name composed of ipuos, sun, and <pvrcv t 

 plant.} 



1. II. INPICUM, 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-celled nutlets, (fi (Heliotropium 

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

 (Adv. from India.) 



BOUR\GO OFriCTX\Lis, L., the cultivated BORAGE, is sometime? suonta 

 neous in gardens. 



