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stem linear-lanceolate ; flowers showy, reddish purple, turning 

 to bright blue, in numerous one-sided spikes, forming a long 

 terminal panicle ; corolla limb very oblique. Roadsides and 

 waste places. Fl. June, July. 



(213) Lithospermum. GROMWELL. 



* Nuts wrinkled. 



L. arvense: annual ; stems erect, branched, about a foot high, 

 hoary with appressed hairs; leaves narrow- lanceolate or nearly 

 linear ; flowers small, white, sessile, in leafy terminal cymes ; 

 nuts conical, hard, deeply wrinkled. Bastard Alkanet. Cul- 

 tivated and waste places. FL May, June. 



** Nuts smooth. 



L. officinale : stem erect, branched, 1-1 J foot high; leaves 

 lanceolate ; flowers small, yellowish white ; nuts hard, white, 

 very smooth and shining, without wrinkles. Waste places, 

 roadsides, etc. Fl. June to August. 



(214) BoragO. BORAGE. 



B. officinalis : annual ; stem erect, with spreading branches, 

 1-2 feet high ; leaves obovate or oblong, narrowed at the base 

 into long stalks, the upper more shortly stalked, narrower ; 

 flowers on long pedicels, in loose forked cymes, drooping, clear 

 blue, the dark anthers very prominent. Waste ground. Fl. 

 June, July. 



(215) Lycopsis. BUGLOSS. 



L. arvensis : annual ; stems procumbent at the base, 

 branched, 1-2 feet long, covered with stiff hairs; leaves lan- 

 ceolate or oblong-linear, waved, often toothed, the upper ones 



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