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290 LIX. BORAGINACE^/ {^BonXgd, 



ovate-lanceolate attenuated at the base and very decurrent. 

 E, S. t. 817. 



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Banks of rivers and watery places, frequent. 1/.. 5, G. — Stein 

 2 — 3 ft. high branched above. Root-leaves ovate, petiolate. i?c- 

 cemes In pairs, secund, drooping. Corollas large, yellowish-white 

 often purple. 



2. S. tuberosum L. (ttiherous C.) ; stem simple, leaves ovate- 

 oblong attenuate at the base, upper ones only slightly decur^ 

 rent. E. B. t. 1502. 



Shady woods and river-banks; frequent in Scotland, particularly 

 in the Lowlands, Rare in England; Durh-am, 2/.. 6, 7. — Re- 

 sembling the last, but it Is very distinct. Upper leaves^ from which 

 the peduncles spring, generally in pairs, large, ovate-lanceolate, a little 

 decurrent ; whereas those of S. officinale are very narrow, and run 

 down into winged appendages to the stem. 



9. BoRAGo Linn. Borage, 



Col. deeply 5-cleft. Cor. rotate, having its throat closed 

 with 5 erect obtuse and emarf>;inate teeth. Stamens exserted : 

 Jilaments 



linear-lanceolate, connivent. Achenes with an excavated base, 

 seated on an hypogynous disk, free from the style. — learned 

 from cor^ the heart^^ and ago^ to brings thence corrupted into 

 JBorago : or more directly from Jiorracl\ a courageous or nohle 

 person, in Celtic, 



1. B, "^officinalis L. (common JB,) ; lower leaves obovate at* 

 tenuate at the base, segments of the corolla ovate acute 

 spreading. E. B, t. 36. 



Among rubbish and waste ground. $, 6, 7. — Whole plant 



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1 Hence the old adage -" I Borage always bring Courage." 



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bus esp 



very hispid. Stem-leaves petiolate and eared at the base, uppermost 1 •'' 



ones sessile. Cor, large, brilliant blue, with very prominent atamens, \ ^^ f 



10. AsPERUGO Linn. Madwort. liinin^ffan 



Cal, 5-cleft, unequal, with alternate smaller teeth,- enlarged 

 and compressed in fruit. Cor. (short) funnel-shaped, its mouth 

 closed with convex connivent scales. Achenes compressed, 

 ' warted, fixed by their edge to the persistent base of the style. 

 Named from a^per^ rough ; eminently applicable to this 

 plant, even among the group of Asperifolice. 



1. A. ^procmnhens L. (German M.). E. B. t. 661. 



Waste places, princliially in the North, Durham ; Northumber- 

 land ; Salop; Essex; Kent, Carnarvonshire. About Dunbar, and 



near Edinburgh; Forfar and Moray shires, 0. 6, 7. Stems pro- 



cumbent, angular, rough with short hooked prickles. Leaves oblong- 



