."GO BOPaiAGINACICiE. (bORAGE FAMILY.) 



the corolla, approximate in pnirs. Otherwise mueh as in Marrubium. (The 

 Greek name, of iineertaiii origin.) 



1. B. n'igua, L. (Black IIorehouxi).) More or less hairy, but green, 

 erect; the root perennial; leaves ovate, toothed; wliorls maiiy-Howercd, dense; 

 calyx-teetli 5, longer than the tube of the purplish corolla. — Waste places, Mas- 

 sachusetts and Connecticut : scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



33. PHLOMIS, L. Jerusalem Sage. 



Calyx tubular, 5-10-ribbed, truncate or equally 5-toothed. Upper lip of the 

 corolla arched ; the lower spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, ascending and approx- 

 imate in pairs under the upper lip ; the filament.t of the upper pair with an awl- 

 shaped apj)cndage at the base., longer than tite others in V. tuberosa, &c. : anther- 

 cells divergent and confluent. — Leaves rugose. Whorls dense and many-flow- 

 ered, axillary, remote, bracted. (An old Greek name of a woolly species, of 

 oliscurc derivation.) 



I. P. tuber6sa, L. Tall perennial (3° -5° high), nearly smooth; leaves 

 ovate-heart-shaped, crenatc, petioled ; the floral oblong-lanceolate ; bracts awl- 

 shnped, hairy; upper lip of the purple corolla densely bearded with white hairs 

 on the in.';] de, — Shore of Lake Ontario near Rochester. June, July. (Adv. 

 from Eu.) 



Order 72. BORRAGII^ACE.E. (Borage Family.) 



Chinflii rough-hairy herbs (not aromatic), with alternate entire leaven, ana 

 sTjmmetrical Jlowers with a 5-parted calyx, a regular b-lobed corolla (except 

 in No. 1), 5 stamens inserted on its tube, a single style and a deeply 4:-lobed 

 ovary (as in Labiatse), which forms in fruit 4 seed-like nutlets, each with a 

 single seed. — Albumen none. Cotyledons plano-convex : radicle pointing 

 to the apex of the fruit. Stigmas 1 or 2. Calyx valvate, the corolla im- 

 bricated (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, muci- 

 laginous, and slightly bitter plants; the roots of some species yielding a 

 red dye.) 



Tribe I. BORRAGGjG. Ovary deeply 4-parted, forming aa many separate 1-seeiled 



nutlets i:i fruit ; the style rising trom the centre between them. (Root frequently red ) 



* Corolla naked and open (without scales) in the throat, somewhat irregular ! Nutlets erect 



1. IDcliiuin. Corolla funnel-form, unequally 5-lobed. Stamens protruded. 



* * Corolla with 5 scales closing the throat. Nutlets not prickly, erect ; the scar broad. 



2. Lycopsis. Coi'oUa funnel-form, slightly curved and oblique : scales blunt and hairy. 



3. Symphytum. Corolla tubular, and enlarged at the summit : scales awl -shaped. 



• » » Corolla open, with folds rather than scales in the throat. Nutlets smooth, erect ; scar small 

 — Lobes of the tubular corolla imbricated ii\ the bud. 



4. Onosmotlium. Nutlets stony, smooth. Lobes of the corolla acute and erect. 



6. Liithospcrmum. Nutlets stony, smuuth. Lubes of the corolla spreading, rounded- 



