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i -sided curled spikes; corolla 5-lobed, sta- 

 mens as many as the corolla lobes and alter- 

 nate with them; fruit mostly of 4 i -seeded 

 nutlets. 



Nutlets armed with barbed prickles. Lappula. 



Nutlets not armed with barbed prickles. 



Racemes without bracts; corolla flat, round. 



Myosotis. 

 Racemes with bracts; corolla funnel form. 



Lithospermum. 



Rough hairy, stem stout, panicu- 



lately branched, 25 feet high, 

 flonbunda 



(Lehm ) the branches nearly erect. 



Greene. Leaves oblong, oblong-lanceolate 



False or linear-lanceolate, 2-4 inches 



long, sessile, obtuse or acute at 

 not. 



the apex, the lower narrowed 

 into long petioles. Flowers 5-lobed, bright 

 blue with a yellow centre J to nearly J of an 

 inch broad in numerous erect, dense racemes, 

 nutlets J of an inch long, keeled tuberculate 

 on the back, the margins armed with a single 

 row of flat barbed prickles, on pedicels less 

 than their own length. 



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