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

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

 O. v6rna, Blub or Spring Navelwort. Spreading by leafy runners ; 



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

 azure-blue, in spring. IJ. 



O. linifdlia, Whitk N. Erect, 6' -12' high, loosely branched, very pale 

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

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

 cavity. ® 



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

 for hedyehog and seed, from the nutlets ) 



E. Lftppula. Weed of waste grounds, especially N., roughish-hairy, erect, 

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

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



9. CYNOGIidSSUM, HOUKDSTONGUE (which the name means in 

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



C. offleinile, Common H. Coarse weed from Europe, common in pas- 

 tures and roadsides : leafy, soft-pubescent, with spatulate or lance-oblong 

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

 margined nutlets, g) ' 



C. Virginicum, Wild Comfeey. Rich woods : bristly-hairy ; with 

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

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

 lets very convex. 21 



C. Morisdni, Beggah's Lice. Thickets and open woods : a common 

 weed, 2° - 4° high, ivith 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 rctlexed in fruit, and convex barbed-prickly 

 small nutlets. ^(T) @ 



10. LYCOPSIS, BUGLOSS. (Name of Greek words for wolf a-nd face or 

 aspect.) European weeds. El. summer. ® ' 



L. arvensis, Field or S.aiall Bugloss. Very rough-bristly weed, about 

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

 little exceeding the calyx. 



11. S'l^MPHYTUM, COMEREY. (From Greek word meaning to grow 

 tor/ether or u7Ute, alluding probably to supposed healing properties.) Cult, 

 from Old World : fl. summer, y. 



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

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

 Naturalized sparingly in moist grounds. 



S. asp^rrimum, 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. HELIOTEOPIUM, HELIOTROPE (i. e., in Greek, turning to the 

 sun). Fl. all summer. 



» Splices only in pairs, or the lateral ones solitary : flowers white. ® 



H. CurElSsS,vieum. Sandy shores and banks from Virginia and Illinois 

 S. : very smooth and pale ; leaves oblong, spatulate, or lance-linear, thicjfish, 

 veinless 



H. Europeeum. Old gardens and waste places S., introduced from Eu. ; 

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



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