560 ORDER 90. BORRAGINACILE. 



1 B. officinalis L. Los. ovate, alternate, the lower ones petiolate ; cal. spread- 

 ing; ped. terminal, many-flowered; fila?nents included. (I) A common inhabitant 

 of the garden. The whole plant is rough with sfrort, bristly hairs, erect, 2f high, 

 with terminal clusters of handsome, sky-blue flowers during summer. It was 

 formerly in high repute as a cordial. The young loaves form a good salad and 

 pot-herb. \ Eur. 



2 B. ori entails. Los. cordate, petiolate ; ped. many-flowered ; fil. exserted, vil- 

 lous. (T) An ornamental garden plant, E. Eur. Stem and leaves hairy. Flowers 

 blue, appearing in the spring months. \ (Psilostemon DC.) 



6. SYM'PHYTUM, Tourn. COMFREY. (Gr. avfj,(j)voi^ a joining or 

 healing ; from its reputation for healing wounds.) Calyx 5-parted ; 

 corolla tubular-campanulate, orifice closed with 5, subulate scales, con- 

 verging into a cone ; achenia smooth, ovoid fixed by an excavated base. 

 U Oriental herbs. 



S. officinale L. Hairy, branching above; Ivs. extensively decurrent, the lower 

 and radical petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, upper and floral lanceolate ; sep. lanceolate, 

 acuminate; cor. limb with 5-recurved teeth. A large, coarse-looking mucilagi- 

 nous plant, in gardens and low grounds, Mid. States. Whole plant rough with 

 dense hairs. Stem 3 if high, winged by the decurrent leaves, bearing terminal, 

 revolute racemes. Corollas white, pink and red, appearing all summer. 



7. LYCOP'SIS, L. WILD BUGLOSS. (Gr. /Uko?, a wolf, and 6i/>, the 

 eye ; name suggested by the small blue flowers.) Calyx 5-cleft ; corolla 

 funnel-form, tube incurved, orifice closed with ovate, converging scales ; 

 achenia perforated at base, ovoid, angular. Distinguished mainly 

 by the curved corolla tube. 



I*. arviisis L. Plant hispid ; Ivs. lanceolate, repand-denticulate ; rac. leafy ; fls. 

 sessile ; cal. shorter than the curved tube of the corolla. A very hispid, almost 

 bristly plant, in fields and roadsides, N. States, probably introduced. Stem erect, 

 branching, roundish, about a foot high. Leaves 5 or 6 times as long as wide, the 

 margin irregularly and slightly toothed. Fls. small. Calyx erect. Corolla sky- 

 blue with white scales within. June, July. S. Eur. 



8. ONOSMCTDIUM, MX. (From Onosma, another genus of this order, 

 and eldog, appearance.) Calyx deeply 5-parted, with linear segments; 

 corolla cylindrical, having a ventricous, half 5-cleft limb, with the seg- 

 ments converging and the orifice open ; anthers sessile, sagittate, in- 

 cluded ; style much exserted ; achenia imperforate, whitish, shining. 

 U North American. Rac. terminal, subspicate, one-sided. Fls. white. 



1 O. Virginicum Alph. DC. Clothed with appressed, stiff bristles from a tuber- 

 cular base ; Ivs. oblong, sessile, entire, acute or rather obtuse, 5-veined, cal. very 

 bristly, lobes lance-linear; cor. hispid or nearly smooth, a third longer than the 

 calyx, the segm. lance-subulate ; anth. strongly sagittate. Dry soils, N. Eng. to Fla. 

 and La. Plant mostly erect, 15 to 30' high, branching, very rough. Lvs. varia- 

 ble, 15 to SO 7 by 5 to 9". Floral Ivs. bractlike. Cor. 4 to 5" long. Jn. Aug. 

 (0. hispidum MX.) 



2 O. Carolinianum DC. Tall, clothed with long spreading, rusty-white, bristly 

 hairs tubercled at base; Ivs. lance-oblong, sessile, entire, 1 -veined, acute, gradually 

 diminished upwards ; fls. shaggy, bristly ; cal. lobes lance-oblong ; cor. near twice 

 longer, limb dilated, segm. ovate, obtusish; anth. linear-oblong, cells scarcely di- 

 verging at base. By streams, ~W. N. Y. to Wis., La. and Ga. St. hollow, 2 to 

 4f high, branched. Lvs. 2 to 3' or more long, near 1' wide. Cor. 5 to 6". Ach. 

 large, white. May Jl. Varies in leaves and hairiness. 



/?. MOLLE. Bristles short, appressed, and on the lower surface of the oblong-ovate 

 Ivs. soft downy, except the 7 prominent, bristly veins. Plant smaller. Lvs. 

 approachiog to ovate, acute or obtuse. (0. molle MX.) Chiefly S. Western, 



