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deflexum, Lehm. ; stem branching from the middle or 

 lower part, fruit-stalks deflexed ; shady gorges ; Oberland, 

 Glarus, Valais, very rare. 



12. OMPHALODES, Tourn. 



Flowers regular, large, bright blue; corolla rotate, 

 throat closed by five scales; nutlets 4, depressed in a 

 cavity of the receptacle. Not alpine. 



O. verna, Mcench. ; flowers in small axillary or ter- 

 minal few-flowered racemes, corolla twice as long as 

 the downy calyx ; Southern Tirol, Styria, Pyrenees. 



13. ASPERUGO, L. 



Flowers regular, small, blue, in axillary cymes ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, throat closed by scales; calyx with five 

 large leafy lobes, enlarged after flowering and concealing 

 the fruit. 



A. procumbens, L. ; flowers I or 2 in the axils of 

 the leaves, stem procumbent, prickly, leaves narrow, 

 hispid ; rubbish-heaps ; Southern Switzerland, Pyrenees. 



14. HELIOTROPIUM, L. 



Flowers regular ; corolla saucer-shaped, with five longi- 

 tudinal folds at the throat ; nutlets ovoid-triquetrous. 



H. europceum, L., Heliotrope; flowers small, white 

 or bluish, in dense axillary or oppositifoliar rolled-up 

 cymes, calyx expanded in fruit, leaves whitish-green, 

 pubescent; fields; Southern Switzerland, Jura, Pyrenees. 



Borrago officinalis, L., Borage, is naturalised through- 

 out Central and Southern Europe. 



