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purple (rarely white, Sartwdl) • nutlets flat on the broad upper face, somewhat 

 margined. @ — Waste grounds and pastures : a familiar and troublesome 

 weed ; the largo nutlets adhering to the fleece of sheep, &c. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. C. Tirg'iniCUlII, L. (Wild Comfkey.) Roughish with spreading 

 bristly luiirs ; stem simple, _/ci«-feai;erf (2° -3° high); stem-leaves lanceolate-ob 

 long, clasping by a deep heart-shaped base ; racemes few and corymbed, raised on 

 a lory naked peduncle, bractless ; corolla pale blue ; nutlets strongly convex. H. 

 — Rich woods, Vermont to Virginia along the mountains, and westward. 

 Junu. — Flowers much smaller than in the last, much laiger than in the next. 



3. C. Itlorisouj, DC. (Beggak's Liob.) Stem hairy, very broadly 

 branched, leafy (2° -4° high); leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, also tapering 

 at the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and roughish above ; racemes pani- 

 ckd, forking, diverging, hairy, leafy-bracted at the base ; corolla white or pale blue 

 (minute) ; pedicels reflexed in fruit; nutlets convex, the prickles with barbed 

 points. (Myosotis Virginica, i. Echinosp^rmum, Le/im.) — Copses; com- 

 mon. July. — A vile weed. 



lO. IIEL.I0XR6PIUM, Toum. Helioteope. 



Corolla salver-shaped, short, 5-lobed ; the sinuses more or less plaited in thB 

 bud ; the throat open. Anthers nearly sessile. Style short : stigma conical. 

 Nutlets 4, wl*3n young united by their whole inner faces into n, 4-cclled ovary, 

 but separating when ripe, each 1-seeded. — Herbs or low shrubby plants, the 

 small flowers in 1-sided spikes. (The ancient name, from jjXios, the sun, and 

 TpoTrrj, a turn.) 



1. H. EuEOpiEnM, L. Erect (6'-18' high), hoary-pubescent; leaves oval, 

 long-petioled ; lateral spikes single, the terminal in pairs ; calyx spreading in 

 fruit, hairy. (i; — Waste places, Maryland, Virginia, &c. in a few places. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



H. CuKASsAvicuM, L., has been gathered at Norfolk, Virginia: probably 

 brought in the ballast of vessels. It also grows at St. Louis. 



H. PERUviiNUM, L., is the well-known Sweet Helioteope in cultivation. 



11. HEUdPHYTlTM, (Cham.) DC. Indian Helioteope. 



Corolla constricted at the throat. Style very short. Nutlets 2, each 2-ceIlcd 

 (i. e. 4, in pah-s), and sometimes with a pair of empty false cells besides : other- 

 wise nearly as in Heliotropium. (Name composed of rfXios, sun, and qbuTW, 

 plant.) 



1. H. Indicdm, DC. Erect, hairy; leaves petioled, ovate or oval and 

 somewhat heart-shaped ; spikes single ; fruit 2-cleft, mitre-shaped, splitting into 

 2 halves with an empty false cell before each seed-bearing cell, and tliese at 

 length separable again into 2 one-seeded and 2-celled nutlets. ® (Heliotropium 

 Indicum, L.) — Waste places, Illinois, opposite St. Louis, and southward. 

 (Adv. from India.) 



BoBKiGO OFPioiHiLis, L., the cultivated Bobage, is sometimes sponta- 



nious in gardens. 



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