BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 
BORAGE. FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 
A large family, widely distributed, chiefly rough-hairy 
herbs, without stipules; usually with alternate, toothless 
leaves; flowers usually in coiled, one-sided clusters; calyx 
usually with five sepals; corolla usually symmetrical, with 
five united petals, often with crests or appendages in the 
throat; stamens five, inserted in the tube of the corolla, 
alternate with its lobes; ovary superior, with a single, 
sometimes two-cleft, style, and usually deeply four-lobed, 
like that of the Mint Family, forming in fruit four seed-like 
nutlets. Mature fruit is necessary to distinguish the 
different kinds. These plants superficially resemble some 
‘of the Waterleaf Family, but the four lobes of the ovary are 
conspicuous. 
There are many kinds of Lappula, chiefly of the north- 
temperate zone; leaves narrow; corolla blue or white, 
salver-form or funnel-form, with a very short tube, the 
throat closed by five short scales, the stamens, with short 
filaments, hidden in the tube; ovary deeply four-lobed; 
style short; nutlets armed with barbed prickles, forming 
burs, giving the common name, Stickseed, and the Latin 
name, derived from ‘“‘bur.’”’ Some of them resemble 
Forget-me-nots, but are not true Myosotis. 
Though the foliage is harsh, this plant 
White Forget- is so graceful and has such pretty flowers 
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> Saat that it is most attractive. It is from ten 
subdectimbens to eighteen inches tall, with several 
White yellowish, hairy stems, springing from a 
Spring, summer 
Noxthwest perennial root and a cluster of root-leaves, 
the stem-leaves more or less clasping at 
base, all bluish-green, covered with pale hairs, with 
prominent veins on the back and sparse bristles along the 
edges. The flowers form handsome, large, loose clusters 
and the hairy buds are tightly coiled. The calyx is hairy, 
with blunt lobes, and the corolla, about half an inch across, 
is pure white, or tinged with blue, often marked with blue, 
with two ridges on the base of each petal, and the throat 
closed by five yellow crests, surrounded by a ring of fuzzy 
white down. This grows on dry plains and hillsides, some- 
times making large clumps. 
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