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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 Gromwecr. 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. ligh. Corolla deep orange-yellow, with appendages in the 
throat anid clad with wool within at the bottom; flowers handsome, 
peduneled, in a crowded cluster. Dry, open pine woods, in sandy soil. 
3. L. canescens Lehm. Puecoonx, INpran Parnr. Perennial; 
clothed with soft hairs, 8-12 in. high. Flowers axillary and sessile. 
Corolla appendaged, uot woolly w ithin, s showy, orange-yellow. Banks 
and open mropdg- 
4. L. angustifolium Michx. Narrow-Lravep Puccoon. Peren- 
nial; rough, G-15 in. high, from a deep root. Leaves linear, sessile, 
acute or nearly so. Flowers pediceled in terminal leaty 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, frniting abundantly. Pedicels of the eleistogamous 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 near divisions. Corola tubular or tubular-funnel- 
form, with 5 aeute 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, 
