GENUS 15. BORAGE FAMILY. 93 
1. Borago officinalis L. Borage. 
Fig. 3549. 
Borago officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 137. 1753. 
Stem erect, branched, 1°-23° high, the 
branches spreading or ascending. Leaves ob- 
long to obovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, 
2’-3’ long, narrowed into margined petioles, 
or the upper smaller, ovate-lanceolate, sessile 
or partly clasping; flowers 8-10” broad, 
pedicels rather stout, 14’-2’ long, spreading or 
recurving; calyx-segments lanceolate, nearly 
erect in fruit; corolla bright blue, the lobes 
ovate-lanceolate; the cone of anthers darker, 
about 3” long; nutlets 2” high. 
In waste places, escaped from gardens, Nova 
Scotia to Ontario and Pennsylvania, but prob- 
ably not persistent within our range. Native of 
southern Europe. June—Sept. 
16. LYCOPSIS L. Sp -Pl. 138. 1753. 
Annual bristly-hispid branched erect or diffuse herbs, with alternate leaves, and small 
blue or bluish flowers, in dense leafy-bracted terminal spike-like scorpioid racemes. Calyx 
5-parted. Corolla slightly irregular, salverform, the tube curved, the limb somewhat unequally 
5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, imbricated, the throat closed by hispid scales. Stamens 5, included, 
inserted on the tube of the corolla; filaments short; anthers obtuse at each end. Ovary 
4-divided; style filiform. Nutlets 4, wrinkled, erect, attached by their bases to the flat recep- 
tacle, the scar of attachment concave. [Greek, wolf-face.] 
About 4 species, natives of the Old World, the following typical. 
1. Lycopsis arvénsis L. Small Bugloss. 
Fig. 3550. 
Lycopsis arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 139. 1753. 
Stem erect or ascending, at length divergently 
or diffusely branched, 1°-2° high, the branches 
becoming procumbent. Leaves lanceolate, nar- 
rowly oblong or the lower oblanceolate, obtuse, 
1’-2’ long, undulate or dentate, sessile, or the 
lower narrowed into petioles, the upper much 
smaller and acute or acutish; flowers numerous, 
crowded, 2-3” broad, very short-pedicelled; 
calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, nearly as long 
as the curved corolla-tube; nutlets shorter than 
the calyx. 
In fields and waste places, Nova Scotia to Ontario, 
Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Naturalized 
or adventive from Europe. Native also of Asia. 
June—-Sept. 
17. ECHIUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 139. 1753. 
Biennial or perennial mostly bristly-hirsute branching herbs, with alternate leaves, and 
rather large blue violet or rarely white flowers, in leafy-bracted scorpioid spikes. Calyx 
5-parted, the segments narrow. Corolla tubular-funnelform, irregular, the limb unequally 
3-lobed. the lobes rounded, spreading, the throat not appendaged. Stamens 5, inserted low 
down on the tube of the corolla, unequal, at least the longer ones exserted; filaments slender, 
dilated at the base; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary 4-divided; style Siow. 2-cleft at the 
summit. Nutlets 4, erect, ovoid, rugose, attached by their bases to the flat receptacle, the 
scar of attachment not concave. [Greek, a viper.] 
About 30 species, natives of the Old World. Type species: Echium itdlicum L. 
