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5. Lithospermum carolinénse ( Walt.) MacM. 
Hairy or Gmelin’s Puccoon. Fig. 3539. 
Anonymos carolinensis Walt. Fl. Car. 91. 1788. 
Batschia carolinensis Gmel. Syst. 2: Part 1, 315. 1791. 
Lithospermum carolinianum Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 397. 
1791. 
Lithospermum hirtwm Lehm. Asperif. 305. 1818. 
Lithospermum carolinense MacM. Met. Minn. 438. 1892. 
Perennial, hispid-pubescent, or scabrous; stems 
usually clustered, rather stout, simple, or branched 
above, 1°-23° -high, very leafy. Leaves narrowly 
lanceolate, sessile, obtuse or acute at the apex, nar- 
rowed at the base, 2’-3’ long, the lowest commonly , 
reduced to appressed scales, the uppermost oblong; 
flowers 6’-8” long, in dense short terminal leafy 
racemes, dimorphous; pedicels 1-3” long; calyx- 
segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube of 
the orange-yellow salverform corolla; corolla-lobes 
entire, rounded, the throat crested, the tube bearded 
at the base within by Io hirsute teeth; nutlets white, 
shining, about 2” high, ovoid, very much shorter 
than the calyx-segments. 
In dry woods, western New York to Florida, Minne- 
sota, Montana and New Mexico. April-June. 
6. Lithospermum canéscens (Michx.) 
Lehm. Hoary Puccoon. Fig. 3540. 
Batschia canescens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 130. pl. 
I4. 1803. 
Lithospermum canescens Lehm. Asperif. 305. 1818. 
Perennial, hirsute, somewhat canescent, at least 
when young; stems solitary or clustered, simple 
or often branched, 6-18’ high. Leaves oblong, 
linear-oblong, or linear, obtuse or acutish at the 
apex, sessile by a narrowed base, 4’-12’ long, 
2'-5”’ wide, the lowest often reduced to appressed 
scales; flowers about 6” long, sessile, numerous 
in dense short leafy racemes, dimorphous; calyx- 
segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube 
of the orange-yellow salverform corolla; corolla 
crested in the throat, its lobes rounded, entire, its 
tube glandular but not bearded at the base within; 
nutlets white, smooth, shining, acutish, shorter 
than the calyx-segments. 
In dry soil, Ontario to western New Jersey and 
Alabama, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Texas. 
April-June. 
4, Lithospermum linearifolium Goldie. 
Narrow-leaved Puccoon. Fig. 3541. 
L. angustifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 130. 1803. 
Not Forsk. 
L. linearifolium Goldie, Edinb. Phil. Journ, 1822: 
322. 
Perennial by a deep root, strigose-pubescent and 
scabrous; stem branched, 6’-2° high, the branches 
erect or ascending. Leaves linear, sessile, acute 
or acutish, 3’-2’ long, 14’’-23’’ wide; flowers of 
two kinds, in terminal leafy racemes; corolla of 
the earlier ones salverform, about 1’ long, bright 
yellow, the tube 3-5 times as long as the linear- 
lanceolate calyx-segments, the lobes erose-dentic- 
ulate, the throat crested, the base of the tube not 
- bearded within; later flowers (sometimes all of 
them) much smaller, pale yellow, cleistogamous, 
abundantly fertile, their pedicels recurved in fruit; 
nutlets white, smooth, shining, ovoid, 13’—-2” high, 
more or less pitted, keeled on the inner side. 
In dry soil, especially on prairies, Ontario and 
Indiana to Illinois, Kansas and Texas, west to Brit- 
ish Columbia, Utah and Arizona. Yellow puccoon. 
