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VI. LITHOSPERMUM L. 
Herbs, with stout, usually reddish roots. Flowers appearing 
axillary and solitary or else in leafy-bracted spikes. Corolla 
funnel-shaped or salver-shaped, with or without folds or 
appendages at the mouth of the tube; the limb 5-cleft, its 
divisions rounded. Stamens included in the corolla tube, the 
anthers nearly sessile. Nutlets either smooth or wrinkled, 
generally very hard and bony. 
1. L. arvense L. Corn Gromwe tu. A rough weed, about 1 ft. 
high. Leaves narrowly lanceolate. Flowers inconspicuous, whitish, 
in the upper leaf axils. Corolla hardly extending beyond the calyx, 
without appendages in the throat. Nutlets rough or wrinkled and 
dull. Sandy banks and roadsides; naturalized from Europe. 
2. L. Gmelini Hitche. Harry Puccoon. Rough-hairy, perennial, 
1-2 ft. high. Corolla deep orange-yellow, with appendages in the 
throat and clad with wool within at the bottom; flowers handsome, 
peduncled, in a crowded cluster. Dry, open pine woods, in sandy soil. 
3. L. canescens Lehm. Puccoon, Inpian Parnt. Perennial; 
clothed with soft hairs, 8-12 in. high. Flowers axillary and sessile. 
Corolla appendaged, not woolly within, showy, orange-yellow. Banks 
and open woods. 
4. L. angustifolium Michx. Narrow-Leavep Puccoon. Peren- 
nial; rough, 6-18 in. high, from a deep root. Leaves linear, sessile, 
acute or nearly so. Flowers pediceled in terminal leafy racemes of 
two kinds, the earlier showy, bright yellow, with a corolla tube an 
inch or more long; the latter much smaller, pale yellow, cleistoga- 
mous, fruiting abundantly. Pedicels of the cleistogamous flowers at 
length recurved. Nutlets ovoid, white, very smooth, slightly pitted. 
In dry soil W. 
VII. ONOSMODIUM Michx. 
Mostly rough-hairy perennial herbs. Leaves sessile, entire, 
with prominent veins. Flowers rather small, white, greenish 
or yellowish, in leafy one-sided spikes or racemes. Calyx 5- 
parted into linear divisions. Corolla tubular or tubular-funnel- 
form, with 5 acute erect lobes. Stamens 5, perigynous, not 
projecting from the corolla tube. Style thread-like, decidedly 
projecting. Nutlets usually only 1 or 2, white, smooth and 
shining. 
1. 0. virginianum A.DC. Stems rather slender, 1-3 ft. high, cov- 
ered with rough, stiff bristles. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
