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1. HELIOTROPIUM, IIKLIOTROPE. (Greeli : tuniing to the sun.) 



* Fruit \-l(ilu'il, and separating into 4 simple nntlets. 

 ■*- Spites onJii in pairs, or Che lateral ones solitary ; floicers lohite. 



H. Curassdvicum, Linn. Sandy shores and banks from Va. and 

 111., S.; very smooth and pale; leaves oblong, spatulate, or lance-linear, 

 thicki.sh, vehiless. 



H. EuropcBum, Linn. Did gardens and waste places S., introduced 

 fmni Eu. ; hoary-downy, 0'-18' high; leaves oval, long-petioled, veiny. 



+- +- Sj>il,-es coUerted in tcrniinal and several times forked cymes. 11 



H. Peruvianum, Linn. Common llELioxKorE. Pubescent, with ovate- 

 oblong or lance-ovale, very veiny rugose leaves, and vanilla-scented, pale 

 blue-purple liowers ; woody-stemmed or shrubby house and bedding 

 plants from Peru. 



* * Fruit 2-hibrd, separating into 2 c<trpels, each 2-celled. 



H. Indicum, Linii. Indian Heliotkupe. Hairy low plant, nat. from 

 India as a weed in waste ground S.; with ovate, heart-shaped leaves, and 

 solitary spikes of small purplish flowers, in summer ; a cavity before 

 each sec d-bearing cell of the lobed fruit. 



2. CYNOGLOSSUM, HOUNDS'-TONGUE (which the name rheans 

 in (ireek). Fiowtrs summer. Nutlets form burs which adhere to ani- 

 mals and clothing. 



C. officinale, Linn. Common H. Coarse weed from Eu., common in 

 pastures, ynrds, and roadsides ; leafy, soft-pubescent, with spatulate or 

 lance-oblong leaves, the upper ones closely sessile, crimson purple corolla, 

 and tlat. somewhat margined nutlets. (2) 



C. Virgfnicum, Linn. Wild Comfhev. Bristly-hairy, with simple 

 stem, leatless above and bearing a few corymbed naked racemes of blue 

 flowers, the stem leaves lance-oblong with heart-shaped clasping base, the 

 nutlets very convex. Can., S. % 



3. ECHINOSPERMUM, STICK-SEED. {Gi-Qayi : hedgehog ?^m\ seed, 

 from tlie nutlets.) 



E. Ldppula, Tiehm. "Weed of waste grounds, especially N.; roughish- 

 hairy, erect, l°-2° high, with lanceolate leaves, small blue flowers, and 

 nutlets with rough-tubercled back and thickly-prickled margins ; flowers 

 all summer. Eu. ® 



E. Virginicum. Lehm. Reooau's Lice. Thickets and open woods, 

 a conunon weed; 2°-4° high, with .slender, widely spreading branches, 

 thin, oblong-ovate leaves tapering to both ends, forking and diverging 

 racemes of very small whitish or bluish flowers on pedicels reflexed in 

 fruit, and convex barbed-prickly small nutlets. ® @ 



4. BORAGO, ROKAGE. (Old name, supposed corruption of fo?- ffj'o, 

 from imagined cordial properties.) 



B. officinalis. Linn. Common B. Cult, from Eu., in old gardens for 

 ornament and as a bee jilant ; spreading, branched, beset with sharp and 

 whitish spreading bristles ; leaves oval or oblong-lanceolate ; flowers 

 loosely raremed, handsome, blue or purplish, with dark anthers, in 

 summer. QD 



