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purple (rarely white, Sartwell] ; nutlets flat on the broad upper face, somewhat 

 margined. (2) Waste grounds and pastures : a familiar and troublesome 

 weed; the large nutlets adhering to the fleece of sheep, &c. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. C. Virginicum, L. (WiLD COMFREY.) Roughish with spreading 

 bristly hairs ; stem simple, few-leaved (2 -3 high); stem-leaves lanceolate-ob 

 long, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes few and corymbed, raised on 

 a long naked peduncle, bractless ; corolla pale blue ; nutlets strongly convex. 1J. 

 Eich woods, Vermont to Virginia along the mountains, and westward. 

 June. Flowers much smaller than in the last, much larger than in the next. 



3. C. lloi isoiii, DC. (BEGGAR'S LICE.) Stem hairy, very broadly 

 branched, leafy (2 -4 high) ; leaves oblong-ovate, taper^)ointed, also tapering 

 at the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and roughish above ; racemes pani- 

 cled, forking, diverging, hairy, leafy-bracted at the base ; corolla white or pale blue 

 (minute) ; pedicels reflexed in fruit ; nutlets convex, the prickles with barbed 

 points, ij (Myosotis Virginica, L. Echinospermum, Lehm.) Copses; com- 

 mon. July. A vile weed. 



10. HEL,IOTROPIUM, Tourn. HELIOTROPE. 



Corolla salver-shaped, short, 5-lobed ; the sinuses more or less plaited in the 

 bud ; the throat open. Anthers nearly sessile. Style short : stigma conical. 

 Nutlets 4, when young united by their whole inner faces into a 4-celled ovary, 

 but separating when ripe, each 1 -seeded. Herbs or low shrubby plants, the 

 small flowers in 1-sided spikes. (The ancient name, from rj\ios, the sun, and 

 rpoiTT], a turn.) 



1. H. EUROPIUM, L. Erect (6' -18' high), hoary-pubescent; leaves oval, 

 long-petioled ; lateral spikes single, the terminal in pairs ; calyx spreading in 

 fruit, hairy, (i, Waste places, Maryland, Virginia, &c. in a few places. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



H. CuRASsAvicuM, L., has been gathered at Norfolk, Virginia: probably 

 brought in the ballast of vessels. It also grows at St. Louis. 



H. PERUVIANUM, L., is the well-known SWEET HELIOTROPE in cultivation. 



11. HELIOPHYTUM, (Cham.) DC. INDIAN HELIOTROPE. 



Corolla constricted at the throat. Style very short. Nutlets 2, each 2-celled 

 (i. e. 4, in pairs), and sometimes with a pair of empty false cells besides : other- 

 wise nearly as in Heliotropium. (Name composed of fj\ios, sun, and (frvrov, 

 plant.) 



1. H. f HIM CUM, DC. Erect, hairy; leaves petioled, ovate or oval and 

 somewhat heart-shaped ; spikes single ; fruit 2-cleft, mitre-shaped, splitting into 

 2 halves with an empty false cell before each seed-bearing cell, and these at 

 length separable again into 2 one-seeded and 2-celled nutlets, () (Heliotropium 

 Indicum, L.) Waste places, Illinois, opposite St. Louis, and southward. 

 (Adv. from India.) 



BORRAGO OFFICINA.LIS, L., the cultivated BORAGE, is sometimes sponta- 

 neous in gardens. 



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