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4, NARROW-LEAVED S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, 19 or 2° high; leaves lance-oblong or 
linear, entire’; raceme short, as in the foregoing. E. aga 8. 8. integrifolia. 
* * * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. 
5. Dwarr S. Minutely downy, 3! to 6! high; leaves-round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, 
¥ long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, &c. 8. parvula. 
6. SLENDER S. Slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, with a roundish or slightly heart- 
shaped base, sessile; flowers 3! long. Wet woods. 8. galericulata. 
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64. BORRAGE FAMILY. Order BORRAGINACES. 
Herbs with alternate entire leaves, not aromatic, commonly rough: the flowers regular, 
with a 5-leaved calyx, 5-lobed corolla, 5 stamens on the tube, one style, and a 4-lobed 
ovary, making 4 akenes. 
Flowers generally in one- 
sided raceme-like clusters, 
coiled up at the‘ tip, and 
unfolding as the blossoms 
expand. Innocent mucila- 
ginous and slightly bitter 
plants, the ‘roots of some 
species yielding a red dye. 
445. Branch of Forget-me-not, in flower. 
446. The corolla laid open, with the 
stamens, magnified. 
447. The pistil with its 4-lobed ovary ; 
calyx, &c. cut away. 
448. Two of the ripe akenes in the 
calyx; the two sepals towards the eye 
and two of the akenes removed. — 
449, Akene cut through lengthwise, 
magnified ; the whole kernel embryo. 
450, Flowers of Comfiey. 
451, Corolla enlarged, laid open, show- 
ing the sharp scales inside, and the stamens. 
* Ovary 4-parted, making 4 akenes around the base of the style. * 
Akenes or lobes erect, fixed by the lower end, separate from the style, not prickly. 
Corolla somewhat irregular (the lobes rather unequal), funnel-shaped (blue or purple). 
Its throat naked and open: stamens protruding, rather unequal, (ichium) VirEn's-Buctoss. 
Its throat closed by 5 blunt scales; tube-curved: stamens included, (Lycépsis) Bucioss. 
Corolla, &c. perfectly regular. 
Its throat closed by 5 converging scales, one before each lobe. r 
Corolla wheel-shaped; its lobes acute. Plant rough-bristly, (Borrago) *BorRaGE. 
Corolla tubular and somewhat funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, (Symphytum) COoMFREY. 
Its throat open, naked or with 5 small projections. Akenes mostly stony. 
Lobes of the’tubular corolla acute and erect, . (Onosmodium) FaLsE-GROMWELL. 
Lobes of the trumpet-shaped corolla spreading, rounded, short. Alenes 
fleshy. Plant very smooth, . (Merténsia) Luxewort. 
