252 ORDER 92. BORRAGINACE^E. 



Cor. rotate, tube shorter than the calyx tube, throat closed. Sta. included 

 Achenia cup-form, toothed at the edges. Oriental herbs. 



1 O. LINIFO'LIA. Erect, smooth, glaucous ; leaves obovate to linear-lanceolate ; corolla 



white, twice longer than calyx. fT) Spain. If. June August. 



2 O. VERNA. Runners creeping; leaves cordate to ovate, puberulent; raceme? in pairs, 



few-flowared ; flowers bright blue, li S. Europe. 6'. April, May. 



10. SYMPHYTUM, Tourn. COMFREY. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. tubular- 

 campanulate, orifice closed with 5, subulate scales, converging into a cone. 

 Ach. smooth, ovoid, fixed by an excavated base. If Oriental herbs. 



S. ofHr-inalc L. Stem hairy, winged with the decurrent, lance-ovate leaves ; fls. white 

 or pink, in revolute racemes. Gardens and fields. 2 4f. Summer. 



11. ANCHUSA, L. BUGLOSS. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. funnel-form, throat 

 closed with 5 scales. Sta. included. Achenia excavated at, base. Europe. 



A . ITALICA. Plant bristly-hispid, with lanceolate leaves and pauicled racemes of numer 

 ous bright-blue, small mellifluous flowers. A hardy biennial. Summer. 



12. ONOSMODIUM, MX. Cal. deeply 5-parted, with linear segments. 

 Cor. cylindrical, having a ventricous, half 5-cleft limb, with the segments 

 converging and the throat open. Anth. sessile, included. Style much ex- 

 serted. Achenia whitish, shining, li North American. Racemes ter- 

 minal, subspicate, one-sided. Flowers white. Summer. 



1 O. "Vlrglniinum A. DC. Very rough with appressed, stiff bristles; Ivs. oblong, 



sessile, 5-veiiied ; cor. hispid, J longer than the lance-linear sepals, the segm. lance- 

 subulate ; anthers arrow-shaped. Dry soils. 15 30'. Corolla 4 5". 



2 O. Carollniaiium DC. Shaggy with long, spreading, rusty-white bristles ; leaves 



lance-oblong, 7-veined ; flowers shaggy-bristly ; corolla near twice longer than sepals, 

 the segments ovate, obtuse. By streams, M., W., S. 2 4f. 



3 O. molle MX. Hoary with soft appressed haire ; Ivs. oblong-ovate ; corolla hirsute, 



lobes triangular, pointed. Dry soils, W. 2 3f. 



13. MYOSOTIS, Dill. FORGET-ME-NOT. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. salver- or 

 funnel-form, tube about equalling the calyx, the 5 lobes convolute in bud, 

 *hroat closed with short, concave scales. Ach. ovate, smooth, with a small 

 cavity at base. Herbs slightly villous. Racemes bractless, or with a few 

 small leaves at the base. Flowers never axillary. May Aug. Fig. 455. 



Racemes one-sided. Calyx clothed with minute, appressed hair, if any No. 1 



Rac. two-sided. Calyx beset with spreading,. minutely-hooked bristles Nos. 2, 4 



1 HE. pal iistris Roth. Roughish-downy, or nearly smooth, branching ; leaves lance- 



oblong, obtuse ; ped. spreading, longer (2 3") than the equal cal. ; cor. 2 S broad, 

 blue, with a yellow centre. 11 Gardens ; from Europe, also escaped in field*, &c. 

 /3. /nj-rt, taller (10, very slender ; Ivs. lin.-obl. ; ped. 4 6" long. Swamps, ditches. 



2 M.. arvensis L. Rough with tubercled hairs, branched ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 



acute; rac. loose, naked ; ped. twice as long as the open, equal cal. @ Fields. (5--1.V 



3 OT. verna N. (stricta Link.) Rough-bristly, with spatulate to lin. -oblong Ivs ; ped. 



ascending, as long as the closed, bilabiate calyx ; racemes leafy at base. (I) Dry hills. 



4 M. versicolor Pers. Stem very slender, hispid-villous ; leaves oblong ; racemes 



leafless ; pedicels shorter than the deeply and equally 5-cleft calyx ; flowers yellow, 

 varying to blue. Del. (Canby, Porter). Europe. The true Forget-me-not. 



14. LITHOSPERMUM, L. GROMWELL. PUCCOON. Cor. funnel- or 



