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BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



855. L. defl 

 V. amer. 



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. 

 Var. americana (Gray) Greene. N-^tlets with a few prickles 

 along the middle. — Thickets and open woods, la. to Man., westw. 

 and northw. Fig. 855. 

 3. L. floribiinda (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. echinAta Gilibert. Erect, 1.5-6 dm. high ; nutlets 

 rongh-granulate or tuberculate on the back, the margins vnth 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. occident^lis (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- ^^ 

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

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



857. L. echlnata, 858. ▼• <><»• 



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 

 o'blong 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-July. (Adv. from Cal.) 

 Fig. 859. 



859. A. lycopsoides. 



5. ASPERtTGO [Tourn.] L. 

 Madwort 



Corolla v^ith 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. PROcfjMBExs L. — Ballast and made land, 

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



A. T)rocumben8. 



FiQ. 860. 



