BORACiE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 



yellow, an unusual shade of pale corn-color, and harmonize 

 with the pale foliage, but are not conspicuous, and the 

 flower cluster is so crowded with leaves and leafy bracts 

 that it is not effective. This grows in dry fields, as far 

 east as Nebraska, and sometimes makes pretty little 

 bushes, over two feet across. 



Pretty Puccoon . TheSG are pretty flowers > but h *ve a 



Lithospermum disagreeable smell. They are perennials, 



angustifblium with a deep root and hairy or downy, 



Yellow branching stems, from six inches to two 



f eet high ' and hairy or downy Jeaves, which 

 are rather grayish green. The flowers are 

 in terminal leafy clusters and are of two sorts. The corollas 

 of the earlier ones are very pretty, clear bright yellow, 

 sometimes nearly an inch and a half long, with toothed 

 lobes, which are charmingly ruffled at the edges, and with 

 crests in the throat, but the later flowers are small, pale, 

 and inconspicuous. This grows in dry places, especially on 

 the prairies, and is very widely distributed in the western 

 and west central states. 



Gromwell ^^ S ^ as a rou 8 n hairy stem, about a 



Lithospermum foot tall anci dull green, rough, hairy 

 multifldrum leaves, with bristles along the edges. The 



Yellow yellow flowers are half an inch long and 



Ari^Utah etc form rather P rett Y coiled clusters. This 

 grows in open woods at the Grand Can- 

 yon, and is found as far east as New Mexico and Colorado. 

 There are a good many kinds of Amsinckia, natives of 

 the western part of our country and of Mexico and South 

 America. They are rather difficult to distinguish, rough, 

 hairy or bristly, annual herbs, the bristles usually from a 

 raised base, and with yellow flowers, in curved, rather 

 showy, clusters. The corolla is more or less salver-form, 

 without crests, but with folds; the stamens and pistil not 

 protruding, the stigma two-lobed. In order to insure cross 

 pollination by insects, in some kinds the flowers are of two 

 types, as concerns the insertion of the stamens on the 

 corolla and the length of the style. Several of these plants 

 are valuable in Arizona for early spring stock feed, and the 

 leaves of young plants are eaten by the Pima Indians for 

 greens and salads. 



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