BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 
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Beautiful flowers, resembling true For- 
Wild Forget- get-me-nots, but larger, with velvety, often 
me-not 
Léppula reddish stems, from one to two feet tall, 
velitina velvety leaves, and flowers in handsome, 
Blue loose, somewhat coiling clusters. The 
a corolla is about half an inch across, sky- 
ornia 
blue, the most brilliant blue of any flower 
in Yosemite, with five, white, heart-shaped crests in the 
throat; the buds pink. This is rather common in the Sierra 
Nevada at moderate altitudes. JL. nervosa, of high alti- 
tudes, is similar, but with smaller flowers, the leaves 
rough-hairy, but green. This has very prickly nutlets, 
which stick in the wool of sheep and are dreaded by 
‘shepherds. L. floribtinda, also growing in the mountains of 
California and Oregon, has similar, small, blue flowers, 
sometimes pink, and hairy, gray foliage. L. Caltférnica, 
of the northern Sierra Nevada mountains, has small white 
flowers. 
There are many kinds of Lithospermum, chiefly of the 
northern hemisphere; with reddish, woody roots, hairy 
leaves, without leaf-stalks, and flowers crowded in clusters, 
mixed with leaves and leafy bracts; corolla funnel-form or 
salver-form, the throat often hairy or crested; stamens with 
short filaments, not protruding from the throat of the 
corolla; ovary four-lobed, with a slender style, stigma witha 
round head or two lobes; nutlets usually white and smooth. 
The Greek name means ‘‘stony seed.’’ Puccoon is the 
Indian name, and these plants are also called Gromwell, 
and sometimes Indian Dye-stuff, because the Indians made 
dye from the roots, which yield a beautiful delicate purple 
color. 
A rather pretty plant, about a foot tall, 
: with several, stout, yellowish-green stems, 
Lithospérmum a E “ 
pildsum covered with white hairs and very leafy, 
Yellow springing from a thick perennial root. 
Spring, summer The leaves are bluish-gray green and 
ily eign Utah, downy, harsh on the under side, and the 
; flowers are numerous and pleasantly 
scented, with a very hairy calyx and a salver-form corolla, 
about three-eighths of an inch across, silky outside, the 
throat downy inside, but without crests. The flowers are 
Hairy Puccoon 
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