54. BORAGINACE^:. 291 



cor. fringed with teeth and rounded at the end close together 

 below with narrow acute spaces, cal. bellshaped shorter than the 

 cor.-tube E. B. 55. St. slender, red. Fl. small, with a 

 reddish thin cal., and white cor. with spreading ovate-acute 

 segments. Sep. broad, ovate-apiculate, longer than their tube, 

 with patent tips. A nth. blunt or notched at the end. Scales 

 broad; the connecting membrane adpressed throughout. [See 

 C. Ulicis (Godr.) ; scales less than in Sp. 2 or 3, less deeply 

 fringed converging. Bull. Bot. Fr. xxiii.] Parasitical upon 

 small shrubby plants. A. VII. IX. Lesser Dodder. E. S. I. 



f3. C. Trifolii (Bab.) ; st. clasping like a ring, cor.-tube 

 cylindrical, scales converging usually equalling half the tube of 

 the cor. fringed with teeth and rounded at the end distant below 

 ivith rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below about as long as the 

 cor.-tube. .E. B. S. 2898. Not C. Epithymum /3. Trifolii R. 

 xviii. 1343. St. slender, branching, reddish yellow, forming 

 dense broad circular patches. Fl. small, white. Cal. fleshy, 

 usually tipped with red : sep. lanceolate, about as long as their 

 tube, adpressed. Anth. apiculate. Scales narrow ; connecting 

 membrane not adpressed, forming cuplike spaces between itself 

 and the corolla. Parasitical upon Clover chiefly. A. VII. 

 IX. Clover-Dodder. E. X 



[C. approx'imata (Bab.) ; like Sp. 2 but scales divided by 

 acute spaces and truncate, was found on Bockhara Clover. 

 A. N. H. xvi. t. i. ; and C. hassiaca (PfeiiF.) ; fl. stalked, cor.-tube 

 bellshaped closed with converging scales, stig. capitate, Helio- 

 trope-scented, on Lucerne. Both introduced. A. VIII. IX.] 



Order LIV. BORAGINACEJE. 



Fl. mostly in scorpioidal cymes, symmetrical. Cal. inferior, 

 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, usually regular. Stam. 

 5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary of two 2-parted carp., with 

 each lobe 1-seeded ; ovules pendulous. Style simple, from near 

 the base between the lobes of the ovary. Fr. separating in 4 

 nutlets or 2 bilocular portions. Seeds without albumen. L. 

 alternate. Stip. 0. 



Tribe I. CYNOGLOSSEJE. Nutlets 4, on the persistent base 

 of the style. Stam. included. 



1. ASPEBUGO. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, 

 enlarged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 



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