252 ORDER 92. BORRAGINACE^E. 



Cor. rotate, tube shorter than the calyx tube, throat closed. Sta. included 

 Achenia cup-form, toothed at the edges. Oriental herbs. 



1 O. LINIFOLIA. Erect, smooth, glaucous ; leaves obovate to linear-lanceolate ; corolla 



white, twice longer than calyx. (T) Spain. If. June August. 



2 O. VERNA. Runners creeping; leaves cordate to ovate, puberulent ; racemes in pairs, 



few-flowared ; flowers bright blue. if. S. Europe. 6'. April, May. 



10. SYMPHYTUM, Tourn. COMFREY. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. tubular- 

 campanulate, orifice closed with 5, subulate scales, converging into a cone. 

 Ach. smooth, ovoid, fixed by an excavated base. U Oriental herbs. 



S. offlcinale L. Stem hairy, winged with the decurrent, lance-ovate leaves ; fls. white 

 or pink, in revolute racemes. Gardens and fields. 2 4f. Summer. 



11. ANCHUSA, L. BUGLOSS. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. funnel-form, throat 

 closed with 5 scales. Sta. included. Achenia excavated at base. Europe. 

 A. ITALICA. Plant bristly-hispid, with lanceolate leaves and panicled racemes of numer- 

 ous bright-blue, small mellifluous flowers. A hardy biennial. Summer. 



12. ONOSMODIUM, MX. Cal. deeply 5-parted, with linear segments. 

 Cor. cylindrical, having a ventricous, half 5-cleft limb, with the segments 

 converging and the throat open. Anth. sessile, included. Style much ex- 

 serted. Achenia whitish, shining. If North American. Racemes ter- 

 minal, subspicate, one-sided. Flowers white. Summer. 



1 O. VIrgiiiiaiium A. DC. Very rough with appressed, stiff bristles ; Ivs. oblong, 



sessile, 5-veined ; cor. hispid, i longer than the lance-linear sepals, the segm. lance- 

 subulate ; anthers arrow-shaped. Dry soils. 15 30'. Corolla 4 5". 



2 O. Caroliiiiaiium DC. Shasrgy with long, spreading, rusty-white bristles ; leaves 



lance-oblong, 7-veined ; flowers shaggy-bristly ; corolla near twice longer than sepals, 

 the segments ovate, obtuse. By streams, M., W., S. 2 4f. 



3 O. molle MX. Hoary with soft appressed hairs ; Ivs. oblong-ovate ; corolla hirsute, 



lobes triangular, pointed. Dry soils, W. 2 3f. 



13. MYOSOTIS, Dill. FORGET-ME-NOT. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. salver- or 

 funnel-form, tube about equalling the calyx, the 5 lobes convolute in bud, 

 throat closed with short, concave scales. Ach. ovate, smooth, with a small 

 cavity at base. Herbs slightly villous. Racemes bractless, or with a few 

 small leaves at the base. Flowers never axillary. May Aug. Fig. 455. 



Kacemes one-sided. Calyx clothed with minute, appressed hairs, if any No. 1 



Rac. two-sided. Calyx beset with spreading, minutely-hooked bristles Nos. 2, 4 



1 UI. palikstris Roth. Roughish-downy, or nearly smooth, branching ; leaves lance- 



oblong, obtuse; ped. spreading, longer (23") than the equal cal. ; cor. 2 3" broad, 

 blue, with a yellow centre. U Gardens ; from Europe, also escaped in fields, &c. 

 /3. Iaaca 9 taller (If), very slender; Ivs. lin.-obl. ; ped. 4 6" long. Swamps, ditches. 



2 M.. arvensis L. Rough with tubercled hairs, branched ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 



acute ; rac. loose, naked ; ped. twice as long as the open, equal cal. @ Fields. 6~ 15'. 



3 M. verna N. (stricta Link.) Rough-bristly, with spatulate to lin.-obloug Ivs. ; ped. 



ascending, as long as the closed, bilabiate calyx ; racemes leafy at base. Dry hills. 



4 III. versicolor Pers. Stem very slender, hispid-villous ; leaves oblong; racemes 



leafless ; pedicels shorter than the deeply and equally 5-cleft calyx ; flowers yellow, 

 varying to blue. Del. (Canby, Porter). Europe. The true Forget-me-not. 



14. LITHOSPERMUM, L. GROMWELL. PUCCOON. Cor. funnel- or 



