POPULAR FLORA. 



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4. Narrott-leaved S. Jlintitely hoary or downy, slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-oblong or 

 linear, entire ; i-aceme short, as in the foregoing. E. and S. S. integnfblia. 



* * * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. 



6. DwAKF S. Minutely downy, 3' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, 

 i' long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, &c. S. pdrvula. 



6. Slender S. Slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, with a roundish or slightly lieart- 

 sliaped base, sessile ; flowers §' long. Wet woods. S. ijakriculdta. 



64. BORRAGE FAMILY. Order BORRAGINACEiE. 



Herbs with alternate entire leaves, not aromatic, commonly rough : the flowers regular, 

 with a 5-leaved calyx, 5-lobed corolla, 5 stamens on the tube, one style, and a 4-lobed 



ovary, making 4 akenes. 

 Flowers generally in one- 

 sided raceme-like clusters, 

 coiled up at the tip, and 

 unfolding as the blossoms 

 expand. Innocent mucila- 

 ginous and slightly bitter 

 plants, the roots of some 

 species yielding a red dye. 



445. Branch of Forget-me-not, in liower. 



446. The corolla laid open, with the 

 stamens, ma.^nilied. 



447. The pistil with its 4-Iobed ovary ; 

 calyx, &c. cut away. 



448. Two of the ripe akenes in tlie 

 calyx ; the two sep.ils towards the eye 

 and two of the akenes removed. 



449. Akene cut throug-h iengthwisej 

 magnified ; the whole kernel embryo. 



4,50, Flowers ofComfiey, 

 451. Corolla eularj^ed, laid open, show- 

 ing the sharp scales inside, and the stamens, 



* Ovary 4-parted, making 4 akenes around the base of the style. 

 Akenes or lobes erect, fixed by the lower end, separate from the style, not prickly. 



Corolla somewhat irregular (the lobes rather unequal), funnel-shaped (blue or purple). 



Its throat naked and open : stamens protruding, rather unequal, (Echlum) Viper' s-Bugloss. 

 Its throat closed by 5 blunt scales ; tube curved: stamens included, {Lycopsis) Bugloss. 



Corolla, &c. perfectly regular. 



Its throat closed by 5 converging scales, one before each lobe. 



Corolla wheel-shaped; its lobes acute. Plant rough-bristly, (Borrago) *Borrage. 



Corolla tubular and somewhat funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, (Symphytum) Comfkey. 



Its throat open, naked or with 5 small projections. Akenes mostly stony. 



Lobes of the tubular corolla acute and erect, ( Onosmodium) False-Gromwell. 



Lobes of the trumpet-shaped corolla spreading, rounded, short. Akenes 



fleshy. Plant very smooth, {Mertensia) Lungwort. 



