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EORArwNE/F, 



plant, 2 — 3 feet high, with branched, feafy sient^, winged in the 

 upper part ; leaves eUiptical, acute, decurrent ; and purple, pink, 

 or white fimveis in 2-forked, drooping clusters. — Watery places and 

 banks of rivers ; common. Often introduced into gardens, from 

 which it is very hard to eradicate it when it has once established 

 itself, owing to the brittlcness of its fleshy roots, the least bit of 

 which will grow. — V\. May, June. Pereftnial. 



2. S. tuberosum (Tuberous Comfrey). — A smaller and more 

 slender plant with a scarcely winged sie-m, longer-stalked radical, 



and scarcely decurrent cau- 

 line leaves. — Damp woods 

 in the north ; rare.— Fl. 

 lune, |uly. Perennial. 



4 l-!or:,\GO (Borage) is 

 lepiesented by one species, 

 B ofpciiuilis, about 2 feet 

 high, with both stems and 

 / avcs thickly covered with 

 ■itili, whitish, bulbous 

 bristles. The flojvers, 

 \Nhieh are large, bright 

 blue, and very handsome, 

 jmw 111 teriiiinal, drooping 

 clusters, and may readily 

 be distinguislied from any 

 other plant in the Order 

 In tht ir prominent pur[)le- 

 blick aulliers. A variety 

 "CLUis with white flowers. 

 — Waste places; i^iot in- 

 digenous. The juice has 

 tlie smell and flavour of 

 cucumber, which is, there- 

 fore, often substituted for 

 liiennial. 



*5. Anchi's,^ (Alkanet). — Herbaceous, bristly plants with a 

 deeply 5-cleft calyx, and a funnel- or salver-shaped corolla with a 

 straight tube, and its throat closed by prominent blunt scales. 

 (Name from the (ireek luichousa, paint, from the use of the root 

 as a dye.) 



1.* .1. olJuiiuiUs (Common Alkanet).— A soft, hairy plant with 

 an angular stem : narrow, fuiceolate Icabcs ; and forked one-sided 

 c)mes of vi(;let /lo'tcers : calyx longi.'r than the funnel-shaped 



BriRAon OFrirrx4i 



Lorage in claret-cup. — V\. lune, July. 



