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filiform. AciIENlA smooth, ovate, fixed by a large perforate 

 base. — Cnr<- p rennial herbs, with thick mucilaginous roots, 

 and onesidid nodding racemes, single or in pairs. 



S. OFFICINALE, L. Common Com/rep: 



Tl'iiry : stem Bran rlic l. winged above by trio decurrent leave?. lower ovate lanoe- 

 late. petlolate, uppsr and Jlural lanceolate; sepals lanceolate; corolla limb with* 

 recurred teeth. 



Hoist places, naturalized, cultivator in gardens. June. Whole plant rough 

 with dense hairs. S >/t 2 to 3 feet high, bearing terminal revoluto racemes of 

 whits and pink towers appearing all summer. Boot medicinal. 



4.. OX-OSMODIUM, Miehx. False Gbo'uwell. 



So called from its near resemblance to the genus Oaosnia. 



Calyx deeply 5-parted, with linear segments. Corolla 

 oblong-tubular, with 5 erect lobes, naked in the throat; sey 

 meats converging. Anthers included, nearly sessile, sagit- 

 tate.. Style much exserted, smooth. Achenia ovoid, 

 smooth and shining, fixed by a fiat base. — Perennial herbs, 

 with oblong sessile nerved leaves, and yellowish-white flowers in 

 terminal and one sided erect, leaf// braeted spiked racemes. 



1. 0. Virginian um, DC. Virginian OnosmocUum. 



Clothe:! with harsh appressed. bristles; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, the 

 lower narrowed at the base; ealyx lobes lanceolate, half as- long as the corolla, 

 I wiili long bristles outside. (Lithospermum Virginianv.m. L. ) 



Banks and 'hillsides. June — Aug. A Tory rough erect'plant about IS Inches 

 high. Leaves 1 to 12 1 £ inches long. l._, to % iuch wide. 3 to j veined. F Ion-its 

 greenish-white, in leafy racemes, which are recurved at first, at length erect. 



2. 0. Carolinaxum, DC. Carolina Onosmodium. 



Clothed with long spreading bristly hairs; leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong- 

 lariceolate. acute: coroUa twice as long as the calyx, with deltoid-ovate lobts; 

 c d\'s lobes lanecolSte; anthers oblong, longer than the narrow filaments. 



River bank- and Rocky hills. June. July. Stem stout, upright. 3 to 4 feet high. 

 I '1 to 4 inches long, thickly clothed wit j long Uiid shaggy hairs. CUroUa- 

 lobes more or less hairy on the back. 



5. LtTHOSPERMLTlVr, Toura. Gromwell. 



Gr. liSkos. a stone,. and sperma, ?;ed ; from the hard or stony seed. 



Calyx 5-parted; persistent. Corolla funnel-form, or 

 rarely Salver-form^ 5-lobed; lobes rounded; throat open, 

 mostly furnished with 5 small folds or gibbous projections. 

 Stamens included; anthers oblong, nearly sessile. 

 ACHENIA ovate, smooth or wrinkled, imperforate at base. — 

 Herbs, with rough hair y^pr downy mostly sessile leaves, and spiked 

 ar raccoud leafy -braeted white or yellow fowtrs. 



