$4 BORAGINACEAE, Vou. III. 
g. AMSINCKIA Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 7. 1831. 
Annual hispid or setose herbs, with narrow leaves, the yellow flowers in scorpioid spikes. 
Calyx 5-parted, the segments linear. Corolla salverform or funnelform, the tube slender, 
naked or minutely crested in the throat, the 5 lobes spreading. Stamens 5, borne on the 
corolla-tube, included. Ovary deeply 4-lobed. Nutlets ovoid, rough, laterally attached to 
the receptacle below the middie. [In honor of William Amsinck, a burgomaster of Hamburg 
and friend of the Hamburg botanical garden. ] 
About 15 species, natives of western North America and Chile, the following typical. 
1. Amsinckia lycopsioides Lehm. Amsinckia. 
Tig. 3527. 
Lithospermum lycopsioides Lehm. Pug.2: 28. 1830. 
Amsinckia lycopsioides Lehm.; DC. Prodr.10: 117. 1846. 
Diffusely branched, loosely hispid with long, bristly 
hairs, the branches often 1° long, decumbent or ascend- 
ing. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, repand-dentate or entire, 3’ long or less, 
sessile; scorpioid spikes short in flower, elongating in 
fruit, the lower flowers bracteolate, the upper ones com- 
monly bractless; corolla about 4” long, its tube some- 
what longer than the calyx; nutlets rugose-reticulate. 
Waste grounds, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Ad- 
ventive from California. May-July. 
Amsinckia intermédia F. & M., an erect Californian 
species, with orange-yellow flowers and linear leaves, has 
been found in eastern Long Island and Nantucket. 
10. ASPERUGO [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 138. 1753. 
An annual rough-hispid procumbent herb, with alternate entire leaves, or the uppermost’ 
sometimes opposite, and small blue or nearly white flowers, short-pedicelled and 1-3 together 
in the upper axils. Calyx campanulate, unequally 5-cleft, much enlarged and folded together 
in fruit, the lobes incised-dentate. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated. 
Stamens 5, included, inserted on the corolla-tube; filaments very short. Ovary 4-divided; 
style short; stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, ovoid, erect, granular-tuberculate, keeled, laterally 
attached above the middle to the elongated-conic receptacle. [Latin, rough, referring to 
the leaves.] 
A monotypic genus of Europe and Asia. 
1. Asperugo proctmbens L. German Mad- \q 4 9 ?/ 
wort. Catchweed. Fig. 3528. 
Asperugo procumbens L. Sp. Pl. 138. 1753. 
Stems slender, branched, diffusely procumbent, 
6’-18’ long, very rough with stiff bristly hairs. Leaves 
oblong, lanceolate, or the lower spatulate, obtuse or 
acutish at the apex, 4’-14’ long, the lower narrowed 
into margined petioles; flowers very short-pedicelled, 
about 1” broad, blue, the pedicels recurved in fruit; 
fruiting calyx dry and membranous, strongly veined, 
4-6” broad; nutlets obliquely ovoid. 
In waste places and ballast, Massachusetts to south- 
ern New York, New Jersey, District of Columbia and 
Minnesota. Adventive from Europe. Called also small 
wild bugloss and great goose-grass. May-Aug. 
