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1. HELIOTROPIUM, HELIOTROPE. (Greek: turning to the sun.} 



* Fruit 4-lobed, and separating into 4 simple nutlets. 

 *- Spikes only in pairs, or the lateral ones solitary ; flowers white. 



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

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

 thickish, veinless. 



H. Europceum, Linn. Old gardens and waste places S., introduced 

 from Eu.; hoary-downy, 6'-18' high ; leaves oval, long-petioled, veiny. 



*- - Spikes collected in terminal and several times forked cymes. 11 



H. Peruvianum, Linn. COMMON HELIOTROPE. Pubescent, with ovate- 

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

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

 plants from Peru. 



* * Fruit 2-lobed, separating into 2 carpels, each 2-celled. 



H. Indicum, Linn. INDIAN HELIOTROPE. 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 seed-bearing cell of the lobed fruit. 



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

 in Greek). Flowers summer. Nutlets form burs which adhere to ani- 

 mals and clothing. 



C. officina/e, Linn. COMMON H. Coarse weed from Eu., common in 

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

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

 and flat, somewhat margined nutlets. (2) 



C. Virglnicum, Linn. WILD COMFRET. Bristly -hairy, with simple 

 stem, leafless 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. ECHINOSFE'RMUM, STICK-SEED. (Greek : hedgehog and seed, 

 from the nutlets.) 



E. Ldppu/a, Lehm. "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. BEGGAR'S LICE. Thickets and open woods, 

 a common 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, BORAGE. (Old name, supposed corruption of cor ago, 

 from imagined cordial properties.) 



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

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

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

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

 summer. (J) 



