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«. SITM'PHYTrM, Tourn. Comprey. 

 S. offleina'le, L. (Common Comfrey.) Stem winged 

 above by the decurrent bases of the leaves, branched. 

 Leaves ovate-lanoeolate or lanceolate. — Moist soil ; escaped 

 from gardens. 



2. GCHINOSPEB'MVIU, Schwartz. Siickseed. 



1. E. Lap'pula. Lehm. A very common roadside weed, 

 1-2 feet high, hispid, branching above. Leaves lanceolate, 

 rough. Nutlets warty on the back, with a double row of 

 prickles on the margin. Pedicels stoat, not deflexed. 

 Calyx becoming foliaceous. 



2. E. floribun'dum, Lehm. Stem strict, 2 feet high or 

 more, not hispid. Leaves oblong- to linear-lanceolate, the 

 lowest tapering into margined petioles. Eacemes numer- 

 ous, rather strict. Pedicels slender, deflexed in fruit. Nut- 

 lets rough and margined with a close row of flat awl-shaped 

 prickles. — Chiefly N.W. 



3. E. Virgin'ieum, Lehm. (Cynoglossum Morisoni, DC.) 

 (Beggar's Lice.) Stem 2-4 feet high ; hispid. Lower 

 leaves round-ovate or cordate, slender-petioled ; upper ones 

 tapering at both ends. Eacemes widely spreading. Pedi- 

 cels slender, deflexed in fruit. Nutlets prickly all over.^ 

 Open woods and thickets. 



4. CYNOGLOS'SCM, Toiirn. Hodkd's Tongue. 



1. C. offleina'le, L. (Common Hound's Tongue.) Mowers 

 red-purple. Upper leaves lanceolate, sessile. Stem soft- 

 pubescent. — Nutlets rather flat. — A common weed in fields 

 and along roadsides. 



2. C. ViFgln'ieum, L. (Wild Comerby.) Flowers pale 

 blue. Stem roughish with spreading hairs. Leaves few, 

 lanceolate-oblong, clasping. Eacemes corymbed, raised on 

 a long, naked peduncle. — ^Eich woods. 



6. riCOP'SIS, L. BUGLOSS. 

 li. aryen'sis, L. (Small Bugloss.) V«ry rough-bristly!, 

 1 ioot high. Leave* lanceolate. ^Dry or sandy fields, chiefly 

 eastward. 



