BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 



loosely arranged on a fine-hairy curving stem. The 

 fruit, four nutlets set in a four-sided pyramidal shape, 

 surmounted by the withering style. 2 feet high. Fields. 

 Me., south to N. Car., west to Minn. From Asia. 

 Wild Comfrey ^ perennial species with usually a sim- 

 Cynogiossum pie hairy stem, without leaves above. The 

 virginianum basal leaves deep green, oblong lance- 

 Pale violet shaped, rough, and short - stemmed, the 

 upper ones clasping the stem by a heart- 

 shaped base. The pale violet flowers on a few long naked 

 stems ; the corolla divided into five rounded lobes. The 

 fruit, four depressed nutlets, convex on the upper face, 

 and hairy. 1-2 J feet high. In thin woods from Me., 

 south, west to Kan. and La. 



A biennial with a fine-hairy, branching 

 Jeef" ' stem ' slender and spreading. The basal 



Lappula leaves vanishing, as a rule, at the period 



virginiana of bloom, rather broad ovate ; the stem- 



Lavender=white i eaves light green, ovate and lance- 



shaped, growing quite small toward the 

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top of the plant, acute at either end. The 

 flower-spikes very slender and bearing tiny white flowers 

 of a lavender tinge. The tiny burlike fruit covered with 

 barbed prickles. 2-4 feet high. Echinospermum ^x /os > 

 a hedgehog, and <T7r<foua, a seed, was the older (genus) 

 name. Common on the borders of dry woods. Me., 

 south to Ala. and La., west to Minn., S. Dak., and Neb. 

 An annual species somewhat hairy, with 

 g" r ^ ea " many small light gray-green linear leaves, 



Lappula tlie basal ones widest at the tip. The tiny 



echinata flowers light violet, thinly scattered on 



Light violet slender branches. The fruit globose-oval, 

 burlike, and covered with minute slender 

 barbed prickles. 1-2 feet high. In waste 

 places from Me., south to N. J., and westward. 



A beautiful species frequently cultivated, 

 Cov^sn'p having light violet-blue flowers nearly 1 



Menensia inch long. The stem smooth and erect, 



virginica sometimes branched. The deep green 



Violet=blue leaves toothless, ovate pointed or obovate, 

 March-May s t rO ngly veined, and scarcely stemmed ; 

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