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820 BORRAGINACE.3E. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



mcns mostly exscrted, unequal. Style thread-form. Nutlets roughened of 

 wrinkled, fixed by a flat base. (A name of Dioscorides, from e^ts, a viper.) 



1. E. VULGARE, L. (BLUE-WEED.) Rough-bristly; stem erect (2 high), 

 mostly simple; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile; flowers showy, in short 

 lateral spikes, disposed in a long and narrow raceme ; corolla reddish-purple 

 changing to brilliant blue (rarely pale). (2) Eoad-sides and meadows : rather 

 rare northward ; a troublesome weed in Virginia. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. L.YCOPSIS, L. BUGLOSS. 



Corolla funnel-shaped, with a curved tube and a slightly unequal limb ; the 

 throat closed with 5 convex obtuse bristly scales placed opposite the lobes. 

 Stamens and style included. Nutlets rough-wrinkled, hollowed out at the base. 

 Annuals. (Name from \VKOS, a wdf, and ctyis, face.) 



1. !L* ARVENSIS, L. (SMALL BUGLOSS.) Very rough-bristly (1'high); 

 leaves lanceolate ; flowers in leafy racemes ; calyx as long as the tube of the 

 small blue corolla. Dry or sandy fields, New England to Virginia : scarce. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. SYMPHYTUM, Tourn. COMFREY. 



Corolla oblong-tubular, inflated above, 5-toothed ; the short teeth spreading ; 

 the throat closed with 5 converging linear-awl-shaped scales. Stamens in- 

 cluded: anthers elongated. Style thread-form. Nutlets smooth, ovate, fixed 

 by a large hollowed base. Coarse perennial herbs, with thickened mucilagi- 

 nous roots ; the nodding racemes either single or in pairs. (Name from crudely, 

 to grow together, probably in allusion to its reputed healing virtues.) 



1. S. OFFICINA.LE, L. (COMMON COMFREY.) Hairy, branched, winged 

 above by the decurrent leaves ; the lower ones ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a 

 petiole, the upper narrower; corolla yellowish- white, rarely purplish. Moist 

 places; sparingly escaped from gardens. June. (Adv. from Eu.) 



4. ONOSM6l>IU]TI, Michx. FALSE GROMWELL. 



Calyx 5-parted ; the divisions linear and erect. Corolla tubular or tubular- 

 funnel-form, naked in the throat (the sinuses minutely hooded-inflexed) ; the 5 

 acute lobes converging or somewhat spreading. Anthers oblong-linear or arrow- 

 shaped, mucronate, inserted in the throat of the corolla. Style thread-form, much 

 exserted. Nutlets bony, ovoid, smooth, fixed by the base ; the scar minute, not 

 hollowed out. Chiefly perennial herbs, coarse and hispid, with oblong and 

 sessile ribbed-veined leaves, and white, greenish, or yellowish flowers, in at length 

 elongated and erect leafy racemes. Our species all belong to ONOSMODIUM 

 PROPER, having the anthers all included, smooth, and on very short filaments ; 

 the corolla only once or twice the length of the calyx. (Named from the re- 

 semblance to the genus Onosma.) 



1. O. Virgillit|llllin, DC. Clothed all over with harsh and rigid oppressed 

 bristles; stems rather slender (l-2 high); leaves narrowly oblong, or oblong- 



