366 BORRAGINACE.C (P.OKAGE FAMILY.) 



lets depressed or convex, oblique, fixed near the apex to the base of the style, 

 roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. — Coarse herbs, with 

 a strong scent and petioled lower leaves; the mostly panicled (so-called) ra- 

 cemes naked above, usually bractcd at the base. Fl. all summer. (Name from 

 Kvwv, a dtxj, and yXaxrcra, tonf/uf,; from the shape und texture of the leaves.) 



1. C. officinXle, L. (Common Houni>'s-Toxguk.) Biennial; clothed 

 with short s'ljl hairs, Itafy, panicled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile 

 by a rounded or slightly heart-shaped base ; racemes nearly braetless ; corolla 

 reddish-purple (rarely white); nutlets flat on the broad upper lace, somewhat 

 margined. — Waste grounds and pastures : a familiar and troublesome weed ; 

 the large nutlets adhering to the fleece of sheep, &c. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. C. Virginieum, L. (Wild Comfrey.) Perennial; rouyhish with 

 spreadiiu/ hristlj hairs ; stem s\m^\c, Jlw-leaued (2° -3° high) ; stem-leaves lance- 

 olate-oblong, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes few and corj/mbed, 

 raised on a lour/ naked j^eduncle, braetless ; corolla pale blue ; nutlets strongly con- 

 vex. — Kich woods : rather common, especially westward. — Flowers interme- 

 diate in size between the other two. 



3. C. Moris6ni, DC. (Beggar's Lice.) Biennial; stem hairy, very 

 broadly branched, leafij (2° -4° high) ; leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, also 

 tapering at the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and rougliish above ; 

 racemes panicled, Ibrking, diverging, hairy, leafy-brdcted at the base ; flo^vers very 

 small; corolla white or pale Wue (minute); pedicels reflexed in fruit; nutlets 

 convex, the prickles with barbed points. (Myosotis Virginica, L. Echino- 

 spermum, Lehm.) — Copses : a common and vile weed. 



10. HELIOTROPIUM, Tourn. Heliotrope. 



Corolla salver-shaped, short, 5-lobcd ; the sinuses more or less plaited in the 

 bud ; the throat open. Anthers nearly sessile. Style short : stfgma conical, or 

 capitate. Nutlets 4, when young united by their whole inner faces into a 4- 

 cellcd ovary, but separating when ripe, each 1-secded. — Herbs or low shrubby 

 plants, the small flowers in one-sided spikes ; in summer. (The ancient name, 

 from rjXius, the sun, and rponr], a turn.) 



1. H. EuROP.iiUM, L. Erect annual (6' - 18' high), hoarj'-pubescent ; leaves 

 oval, long-petioled ; lateral spikes single, the terminal in pairs ; calyx spreading 

 in fruit, hairy. — Waste places, southward : scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. H. Curassavicum, L. Apparently annual, glabrous ; stems a.scend- 

 ing; leaves lanec-linear or spatulate, thickish, pale, almost vcinless; spikes in 

 pairs. — Sandy shores, Norfolk, Virginia, S. W. Illinois, and .southward. 



11. HELIOPHYTUM, Cham., DC. Indiax Heliotrope. 



Corolla constricted at the throat. Style very short. Nutlets 2, each 2-cellcd, 

 i. e. 4, in puirs, and sometimes a pair of empty ialse cells besides : otherwise 

 nearly as in Heliotro])ium. (Name, rj\ios, sun, and (J)vt6v, plant.) 



1. H. ixDicuM, DC. Erect and hairy annual ; leaves petioled, ovate or 

 oval and somewhat heart-shaped; spikes single; fruit 2-cleft, mitre-shaped, 

 with an empty false cell before each seed-bearing cell. (Heliotropiura Indi- 

 cum, L.) — Waste places, S. Illinois, and southward. (Adv. from India.) 



