THE BORAGE EAMILY. 



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SEA-SIDE HELIOTROPE. 



Hcliotrbpium Ciirassd7 'icion . 



FAMILY COLOUR 



Borate. IVhite or l>/ne. 



ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Scoiticss. Texas and Florida to North May-SeJ>timbtr. 



Carolina and I'irginia. 



Flmoers: small; growing densely in a one-sided sjnke on a coiled, often two- 

 parted peduncle. Calyx: persistent; with five-pointed segments. Corolla: salver- 

 shaped, with five rounded lobes. Stametis: included, their filaments short or almost 

 none. Leaves: alternate, linear, or oblanceolate, blunt at the apex and narrowed 

 into petioles at the base, or sessile ; entire ; smooth ; slightly glaucous. Stem : six 

 to eighteen inches long ; diffuse ; smooth. 



Along the great, spreading seashore, 

 or through saline marshes, where this 

 wild heliotrope blows, it seems a small 

 thing indeed to cover them so well as 

 often it does in places. Its little face 

 is white, with a yellow eye, and curi- 

 ously changes at times to blue. It also 

 turns that it may follow the sun in 

 his course. By its one-sided spike of 

 flowers which was coiled in the bud we 

 are at once reminded of its relatives 

 in cultivation. 



H.Europd:um, European heliotrope, 

 has become naturalised in this coun- 

 try or is adventive from Europe and 

 shows white flowers in its solitary, 

 scorpioid spikes and in the terminal ones which are usually in pairs. Again 

 the plant is known by a roughness, produced by fine, very short hairs. 



H. Indicuin, Indian heliotrope, not infrequently encountered from Florida 

 to North Carolina and about northern seaports, has become naturalised 

 from India, where as in other warm regions it thrives abundantly as a weed. 



VIRGINIA COWSLIP. TREE LUNGWORT. 



Mertmsia Vzrgim'ca. 



TIME OF BLOOM 

 March-May. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE 



Borage. Light bluish Scentless. South Carolina to A'ew Jersey 



purple. and Ontario. 



/7i7w^rj .' showy, growing in short corymb-like racemes. Calyx-lobes: blunt; 

 small. Corolla: trumpet-shaped, the tube expanded above and considerably longer 

 than the slightly five-lobed limb; not crested in the throat. Stamens : inserted on 

 the corolla-tube. Filaments: thread-like. Leaves: alternate; oblong or oval, 

 fhose uppermost almost sessile and the lower ones tapering into margined peti- 

 oles. Stem : one to two feet ; stout ; glabrous ; branched or simple. 



