BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 



loosely arranged on a fine-hairy curving stem. The 

 fruit, four nutlets set in a four-sided pj^ramidal shape, 

 surmounted by the withering style. 2 feet high. Fields. 

 Me., south to N. Car., west to Minn. From Asia. 

 Wild Comfrey ^ perennial species with usually a sim- 

 Cynoglossum pie hairy stem, without leaves above. The 

 Virginicum basal leaves deep green, oblong lance- 

 Pale violet shaped, rougli, and short - stemmed, the 

 pri - ay upper ones clasping the stem by a heart- 



shaped base. The pale violet flowers on a few long naked 

 stems ; the corolla divided into five rounded lobes. The 

 fruit, four depressed nutlets, convex on the upper face, 

 and hairy. 1-2| feet high. In thin woods from Me., 

 south, west to Kan. and La. 



A biennial with a fine-hair}", branching 

 seed ~ ^^^'^^^' slender and spreading. The basal 



Ecliinosperinum leaves vanishing, as a rule, at the period 

 Virginicum of bloojn, rather broad ovate ; the stem- 



Lavender=white ig^y^g light green, ovate and lance- 

 s""t mber shaped, growing quite small toward the 



top of the plant, acute at either end. The 

 flower-spikes very slender and bearing tiny white flowers 

 of a lavender tinge. The tiny burlike fruit covered with 

 barbed prickles. 2—4 feet high. The name from exivoS, 

 a hedgehog, and dTtspua, a seed, referring to the spiny 

 fruit. Common on the borders of dry woods. Me., 

 south to Ala. and La., west to Minn., S. Dak., and Neb. 

 An annual species somewhat hairy, with 

 Stickseed many small light gray-green linear leaves, 



Echinospennuyn the basal ones widest at the tip. The tiny 

 LappuUi flowers light violet, thinly scattered on 



Light violet slender branches. The fruit globose-oval, 



^ *^~ . burlike, and covered with minute slender 



September ' 



barbed prickles. 1-2 feet high. In waste 

 places from Me., south to N. J., and westward. 



A beautiful species frequently cultivated. 

 Cowslip having ricli violet-hued flowers nearly 1 



Mertensin inch long. The stem smooth and erect, 



Virginira sometimes branched. The deep green 



^'^*®* leaves toothless, ovate pointed or obovate, 



ay strongly veined, and scarcely stemmed ; 



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