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BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



A 3-4 mm. long, the nutlets only marginally glochidiate. (Echino- 



spermum Lehm.) Calcareous mountains and cliffs, e. Que. ; road- 



^^ sides and waste places, N. B. to Minn., local. (Eurasia.) FIG. 854. 



855. L. defl., Var - americana (Gray) Greene. Nutlets with a few prickles 



v. amer. ' along the middle. Thickets and open woods, la. to Man., westw. 



and north w. Fiu. 855. 



3. L. floribunda (Lehm.) Greene. Rather strict, 0.3-1.5 m. high; leaves 

 oblong- to linear-lanceolate, the lowest tapering into margined 

 petioles ; racemes numerous, commonly geminate and in fruit 

 rather strict; corolla larger, blue, sometimes white, 0.5-1 cm. 

 in diameter ; nutlets 4-6 mm. long, scabrous and margined with 

 a close row of flat-subulate prickles. (Echinospermum Lehm.) 

 Ont. and Minn, to Sask., and westw. FIG. 856. 856. L. floribunda. 



* * Stout pedicels not deflexed ; calyx becoming foliaceous leaves 

 linear, lanceolate, or the lower spatulate ; hispid annuals. 



4. L. ECHINA.TA Gilibert. Erect, 1.5-6 dm. high ; nutlets 

 rough-granulate or tuberculate on the back, the margins with a 

 double row of slender distinct prickles, or these irregularly dis- 

 tributed over most of the back. {Echinospermum Lappula 

 Lehm.) Waste and cultivated grounds, local. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 FIG. 857. 



5. L. Red6wskii (Hornem.) Greene, var. occidentals (Wats.) 

 Rydb. Erect, 1.5-6 dm. high, at length diffuse ; nutlets irregu- 

 larly and minutely sharp-tuberculate, the mar- 

 gins armed with a single row of stout flattened &,< 

 prickles sometimes confluent at base. (L. tex- $jS 



ana Britton.) Ont. to Sask. and Tex., and 

 westw.; ballast and waste places, eastw. FIG. 858. L. Eedowskii, 

 85T. L. echinata. 858. v - occ - 



4. AMSINCKIA Lehm. 



Corolla salver-form or tubular-funnel-form. Style filiform. Nutlets rough, 

 dull, ovoid-trigonous, attached below the middle. Rough-hairy annuals, with 

 oblong or narrower leaves and scorpioid-spicate yellow flowers, 

 at least the lowest leafy-bracted. (Dedicated to the memory 

 of Wilhelm Amsinck, a burgomaster of Hamburg, who gave 

 important support to the botanical garden of that city.) 



1. A. LYCOPSOIDES Lehm. Decumbent, loosely branched, 

 3-6 dm. high ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the lower 

 0.5-1 dm. long, the upper shorter; 

 flowers mostly bractless ; corolla pale 

 yellow, 7-10 mm. long, the slender tube 

 exceeding the calyx. Waste places, 

 etc., locally established, e. Mass, to 

 Ct. May^Tuly. (Adv. from Cal.) 

 FIG. 859. 



. A. lycopsoides. 



5. ASPERtTGO [Tourn.] L. 

 MADWORT 



Corolla with short tube slightly enlarged above, and 

 with spreading limb, smaller than the conspicuous calyx. 

 Stamens included. Nutlets granulated. Low annual 

 with harsh slender stems, oblong or spatulate leaves, 

 and few axillary flowers on short recurved pedicels. 

 (Name from asper, rough.) 



1. A. pRocfjMBENS L. Ballast and made land, 



. A. procumbens. 



Mass, to D. C. and Minn. May-July. (Adv. from Eu.) FIG. 860. 



