270 DORAGIXAC11.E. 



Coarse herbs, with mostly panicled racemes of blue, purple or white 

 flowers, naked above but usually bractedat the base. 



1. C. officinale, L. Common IlouiuVs-tongue. 



Clothed with silky h.vr«, leafy, panicled above; lower leaves lanceolate, oblon?, 

 tated into a petiole; t//i;w lanceolate, closely sessile by a rounded or slightly 

 heart-shaped base; racemes without bracts; cahjxlobes oblong, obtuse, shorter than 

 the corolla. 



Waste grounds, introduced. May, June.- Bienniel. An cr»ct downy plant of 

 a dull green color. 18 to 20 inches high: Lower leaves 6 to 10 inches long and 1 to 

 2 inches wide. Flowers purplish-zed in naked one-sided raeemes. Fruit rough,. 

 alhering to the ffoecc of sheep. 



2. C. YlRGIXicUM, L. Wild Comfrnj. 



Ronghish with spreading bristly hair.-.; stem simple, with few learn*; lower haves 

 oval-oblong, petiolate : upper lance-oblong.clasp'.ng by a deep heart-shaped base ; 

 racemes somewhat corymbose, naked; calyx loles acute, villous, about half as long 

 as the tube of the M 



Rich shady woods. May June. Ttr. Stem 2 to 3 feet hiih. rery hairy. 7?-vrf 

 I taves 5 to ti inches long and half as wide. Flowers pale blu; or nearly white, in 

 a terminal corymbose panicle. 



3. C. Morisoni, DC. Begger's Lice,. 



Stem erect, hairy, broadly branched, leafy; leaves oblong-orate, acute, tapering 

 to the base, thin, minutely downy underneath and ronghish above : r ceries pani- 

 . ' rking, diverging, hairy, with leafy bracts at the base; pedicels reflexed in . 

 fruit. 



Borders of woods, rather common. July. Bienn r ei. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, fur- 

 rowed, with many Blender remote branches. Leaves entire, remote, 3 to 4 indues 

 long, tapering to-evhond. Flowrs very small, white or pale blue in forked trr- 

 minal racemes. Pedicels reSexedin fruit. Ailicnia convex,. the pricklas with bar- 

 bed points. 



CULTIVATED EXOTICS. 



10. BORAGO, team. Borage. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla wheel-form, with acute seg- 

 ments ; throat closed with rays. Filaments converging. 

 Aciienia rounded, imperforate at base, inserted lengthwise 

 into an excavated receptacle. — European herbs, with alternate 

 rough leaves, and most In blue flowers in one-sided clmiers revohtie 

 before expansion. 



B. officinalis, L. Common Borage. 



Leaves ovate, alternate, the lower one* petroled; calyx spreading; pcxlur.cZc ter- 

 minal, many-fiowered. Annual. The whole plant is rough with short bristly 

 hairs, ereot, 1 to 2 feet high. Flowers in t;rminal clusters, sky blue, Cowering ail 

 summer. 



11. ANCHUSA, Linn. Bugloss. 



Galyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form, vaulted; tube 

 straight;, onjioe closed with 5 prominent scales. Stamens 



