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7. 0MPHAL6DES. (Name from the Greek, refers to the navel-shaped 

 depression on the upper face of the nutlets.) Cult, from Eu. for ornament. 

 O. v6rna. Blue or Spring Navelwort. Spreading by leafy runners ; 



leaves ovate or somewhat heart-shaped, 2' - 3' long, pointed, green ; flowers 

 azure-blue, in spring, y. 



O. Iinif61ia, White N. Erect, 6' -12' high, loosely branched, very pale 

 or glaucous, with broadly lanceolate leaves sparingly ciliate, the upper sessile, 

 white or bluish flowers, and turgid nutlets toothed around the margin of the 

 cavity. ® 



8. ECHINOSPEEMUM, STICKSEED. (Name of two Greek words 

 for hedgeJioff and seed, from the nutlets ) 



B. l^ppula. Weed of waste grounds, especially N., roughish-hairy, erect, 

 1° - 2° high, with lanceolate leaves, small blue flowers, and nutlets -with rough- 

 tubercled back and thickly-prickled margins : fl. all summer. ® 



9. CTNOGLOSSUM, HOtJNDSTONGUE (which the name means in 

 Greek). El. summer. Nutlets form burs which adhere to fleece. 



C. o£Q.ciu^e, Common H. Coarse weed from Europe, common in pas- 

 tures and roadsides : leafy, eoft-pubescent, with spatnlate or lance-oblong 

 leaves, the upper ones closely sessile, crimson purple corolla, and flat somewhat 

 margined nutlets, g) 



C. Virginieum, Wild Comfket. Kich woods : bristly-hairy ; with 

 simple stem leafless above and bearing a few coryrabed naked racemes of blue 

 flowers, the stem leaves lance-oblong with heart-shaped clasping base, the nut- 

 lets very convex. ^ 



C. Morisbni, Beggar's Lice. Thickets and open woods: a common 

 weed, 2° - 4° high, with slender widely spreading branches, thin oblong-ovate 

 leaves tapering to both ends, forking and diverging racemes of very small 

 whitish or bluish flowers on pedicels reflexed in fruit, and convex barbed-prickly 

 small nutlets. ® @ 



10. LYCOPSIS, BUGLOSS. (Name of Greek words for wotfanA face or 

 aspect.) European weeds. El. summer. ® 



L. arv6nsis, EiELD or Small BuGLOss. Very rough-bristly weedj about 

 1° high, in sandy fields E. ; with lance-oblong leaves, and small blue corolla 

 little exceeding the calyx. 



11. SI^MPHTTITM, COMFREY. (Erom Greek word meaning to grow 

 together or unite, alluding probably to supposed healing properties.) Cult. 

 from Old World : fl. summer. 21 



S. ofB.cin&Ie, Common C. Rather soft-hairy ; the branches winged by 

 the decurrent bases of the oblong-lanceolate leaves ; corolla yellowish-white. 

 Naturalized sparingly in moist grounds. 



S. asperrimum. Rough C. Cult, in some gardens : stem and widely 

 spreading- branches excessively rough with short and somewhat recurved little 

 prickles, not winged ; calyx-lobes short ; corolla reddish purple in bud changing 

 to blue. 



12. HELIOTROPIUM, HELIOTROPE (i. e., in Greek, turning to the 

 sun). Fl. all summer. 4 



* Spikes only in pairs, or the lateral ones solitary : flowers white. ® 



H. CurassAvicum. Sandy shores and banks from Virginia and Illinois 

 S. : very smooth and pale ; leaves oblong, spatnlate, or iance-linear, thicldsh, 

 veinless 



H. EuropSBUni. Old gardens and waste places S., introduced fi-om Eu. ; 

 hoary-downy, 6' - 18' high ; leaves oval, long-petioled, veiny. 



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