BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaccae. 



This has bright flowers, but the foliage! 

 is dreadfully harsh. The stem is from one 



riddle-neck, 



Buckthorn Weed to three feet tall > often widely branching, 



Amsinckia with white bristles scattered over it, and 



intermedia the leaves are dull green and bristly. 



. ow The flowers are pretty, about half an inch 



Spring, summer 



West long, with narrow sepals and bright 



orange corollas, with five bright red spots 

 between the lobes. The nutlets are roughened with short,! 

 hard points. These plants are very common and some-| 

 times form rank thickets in fields and waste places. Theyj 

 are very abundant in southern Arizona and are valued as a 

 grazing plant for stock and are therefore known as Saccate j 

 Gordo, which means "fat grass." 



There are many kinds of Cryptanthe, most of their! 

 western and difficult to distinguish. They are slender I 

 hairy plants, with small flowers, which are usually white, ir| 

 coiled clusters; the calyx bristly; the corolla funnel-form 

 usually with five crests closing the throat; the nutlet; 

 never wrinkled. These plants resemble white Forget-me-j 

 nots and are sometimes so called. The Greek name means! 

 "hidden flower, " perhaps because of the minute flowers o: 

 some kinds. 



A rather attractive little plant, but in 

 Nievitas 



Cryptanthe conspicuous except when it grows ir 



intermedia patches, when it powders the fields wit! 



White white, like a light fall of snow, and suggest: 



the pretty Spanish name, which is i 

 diminutive of "nieve, " or snow. Th( 

 slender, roughish stem is about ten inches tall, thelighi 

 green leaves are hairy, with fine bristles along the edges 

 and the pretty little flowers are white, about a quarter o: 

 an inch across, with yellow crests in the throat. Pop' 

 corn Flower, Plagiobbthrys nothofiilvus, of the Northwest 

 is also called Nievitas, as it often whitens the grounc 

 with its small, fragrant, white flowers, which are very muclj 

 like the last. 



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