PI. ex. cor. 31. BORAGINEiE. 109. Borraffo. 351 



Road-sides; annual; 



Rooi fusiform; stem upright, hispid, branchy; branches 

 upright, spreading ; leaves hispid ; flowers drooping; pedi- 

 cells long, 1 -sided. — Racemes terminal, short, bracteated; 

 corolla skyblue; stamens and arches black. 



(3. alha. Flower white. ■ 

 Borrago flore albo, Ger. em. 79T, 2. 



V. 110. ASPERUGO. Pliny. Madwort. 

 Calyx round, deeply 5- cut, with teeth between the cuts, 



becoming long and compressed; lamellae flat, parallel, 

 sinuated, toothed ; corolla rather funnelshape, mouth 

 arched; arches convex, connivent ; Jilaments short; anthers 

 rounded; stigma capitate; cariopsides 4, 1-celled, smooth, 

 compressed, not perforated at bottom ; gynobasis columnar. 



Asperugo proaimhens. Procumbent madwort. 



Asperngo vulgarir,. Rail Syn. 228. 

 Aparine major Plinii, Ger. em. 1122,2. 

 Borrago minor sylvestris, Park. 765. 

 Asperugo procuinbens, Lin. S. P. 198. 

 Great goose-grass. German madwort. 



Rich waste land ; annual ; April and May. 



Root slender; stem procumbent, flagelliform, branchy, 

 with small hooked spines ; leaves in threes or fours, oblong, 

 obtuse; rough above; rather baldish beneath; edges hairy, 

 hooked ; Jlowe7-s from the side of the leaf^ solitary', purplish. 



^. alba. Flowers white. 



VI. lll.BUGLOSSA. Dioscorides. Bugloss. 

 Calyx 5-parted ; corolla funnelshape; mouth closed; arches 



upright, blunt; cariopsides 4, 1-celled, topshape, concave, 

 perforated at bottom; gynobasis flat, small. — Flowers race- 

 mose ; fruit upright. 



1» Buglossa arvensis. Field bugloss. 



Stem upright, branchy ; leaves lanceolate, half-embracing, 

 subrepand, toothed, strigose, very rough; racemes leafy; 

 calyx as long as the bent tube; lobes of the corolla unequal, 

 lanceolate. 



Buglossa sylvestris lAinor, Eaii Syn. 227, 1 ; Ger. em. 799, 3. 



Buglossum sylvestre minus, Park. 765. 



Lycopsis arvensis, Lin. S. P. 199, 



Anchusa arvensis, HoJ^m, et Link Ft. Lusit. 1 , 179. 



Small wild bugloss. 



