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BORAG1NACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



Means of control 



Deep cutting, well below the crown, before the first flowers 

 mature. Dormant seeds may furnish a young crop, but these 

 plants are easily pulled while the taproot is small. 



IG. 234. Comfrey (Symphytum offici- 

 nale). X J . 



FIG. 235. Small 

 Bugloss (Lycopsis arven- 

 sis). X \. 



SMALL BUGLOSS 

 Lycopsis arvensis, L. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to September. 



Seed-time: August to November. 



Range: Quebec to western Ontario and Minnesota, southward to 



Virginia. 

 Habitat : Dry or sandy soil ; fields and waste places. 



Stems six to eighteen inches high, slender, bristly-hairy, many- 

 branched, the branches procumbent. Leaves one to two inches 



