TAXONOMY 



389 



rarely glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme of dichesial or scorpioid 

 cymes, at times condensed into a dichesium of scorpioids or a simple 

 scorpioid cyme. Flowers pentamerous, regular, passing to slight 

 or marked irregularity (Eckium)', sepals five; green, slightly or 



FIG. 227. Atropa belladonna Branch. (Sayre.) 



deeply gamosepalous, often hairy; petals five, the corolla varying in 

 shape from rotate with shallow tube (Myosotis and Borage), to 

 tubular (Symphytum), to funnel-shaped in most species, in color, all 

 transitions frequently purple-blue to blue; stamens five ; pistil 



