322 BOKKAGINACE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



^ 3. L(. ofmoinAle, L. (Common Geomwell.) Much branched abore, 

 erect (l°-2° high) ; leaves thinnish, broadly lanceolate, acute, with a, few distinct 

 veins, rough above, soft-pubescent beneath; corolla exceeding the calyx; nutleta 

 very sniooth and even. — Road-sides, &c. : rather rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



4. Li. latifolium, Michx. Stem loosely branched, erect (2° -3° high), 

 rough ; 1-eaves ovate and ovate-lanceolate, mostly taper-pointed (even the floral ones 

 2' -4' long), ribbed-veined, roughish above, finely soft-pubescent beneath, the 

 root-leaves lai-ge and rounded ; corolla shorter than the calyx ; nutlets very smooth 

 or sparingly impressed-punctate, shining, turgid (2" long). — Borders of woods, 

 Michigan to Kentucky. June. 



§ 3. Nutlets smooth and shining : corolla large, salver-shaped or nearly so, deeji orange- 

 yellow, someiohat pubescent outside : the tube 2-4 times longer than the calyx, the 

 throat more or less appendaged. (Roots perennial, long and deep, yielding a red 

 dye.) (Batschia, Gmd.) 



# Tube of the corolla, from one half to twice longer than the calyx, not muck longer 

 than its ample limb, the lobes entire ; the appendages glandular and adherent (espe- 

 cially in the state with the stamens at the base of the tube], or slightly arched. 



5. li. Itirttiin, Lehm. (Haikt Puccoon.) Hispid witli bristly hairs 

 (l°-2° high) ; stem-leaves lanceolate or linear, those of the flowering branches 

 ovate-oblong, biistly-ciliate ; corolla woolly-bearded at the base inside ; flowers dis- 

 tinctly peduncled ; fruiting calyx (^' long) 3-4 times longer than the nutlets. 

 (Also L. sericeum, Lehm. Batschia Caroliniensis, Gmel. B. Gmolini, Michx.) 

 — Dry woods, .Michigan to Wisconsin, Virginia, and southward and northwest- 

 wai'd. April- June. — Tlowers crowded, showy: limb of the corolla |'-1' broad. 



6. Li. cancsceiis, Lehm. (Hoaet Puoooon or Alkanet.) Softly 

 hairy and more or less hoary (6'-15' high) ; leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or tho 

 upper ovato-oblong, more or less downy beneath and roughish with close ap- 

 prcssed liairs above ; corolla naked at the base, within ; flowers sessile ; fruiting calyx 

 (3" long) barely twice the length of the nutlets. (Batschia cancscens, Michx.) — 

 Open woods and plains, W. Now York to Kentucky, Wisconsin, and northwest- 

 ward. May. — Limb of the showy corolla smaller and the calyx shorter than 

 in tho last. 



* * Tube of the corolla 2-4 times the length of the calyx, and of its erose-toothrd or 

 crennlaie lobes; the appendages at the throat more projecting or arched. (Pentalo- 

 phus, A. DC.) 



7 . L. loilgifldrum, Sprong. Minutely strigose-hoary ; stem simple 

 (6'- 18' high) ; leaves linear; tube of the corolla much longer than the calyx 

 (|'-1|-' long). (Batschia longiflora, PursA. L. incisum, ieAm. Pentalophus 

 longiflovus, ^. Z3C.) — Prairies and plains, from W. Illinois and Wisconsin 

 westward. May, 



6. MERTENSIA, Eoth. Smootu Lungwokt. 



Corolla trumpet-shaped or bell-funnel-shaped, much longer than the deeply 5- 

 cleft or 5-parted calyx, naked, or with 5 small glandular folds or appendages in 

 the open throat; the spreading border 5-lobed. Stamens proti-uding from the 



