BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 
yellow, an unusual shade of pale corn-color, and harmonize 
with the pale foliage, but are not conspicuous, and the 
flower cluster is so crowded with leaves and leafy bracts 
that it is not effective. This grows in dry fields, as far 
east as Nebraska, and sometimes makes pretty little 
bushes, over two feet across. 
These are pretty flowers, but have a 
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f disagreeable smell. They are perennials, 
Lithospérmum ; 
angustifolium with a deep root and hairy or downy, 
Yellow branching stems, from six inches to two 
eae feet high, and hairy or downy leaves, which 
are rather grayish green. The flowers are 
in terminal leafy clusters and are of two sorts. The corollas 
of the earlier ones are very pretty, clear bright yellow, 
sometimes nearly an inch and a half long, with toothed 
lobes, which are charmingly ruffled at the edges, and with 
crests in the throat, but the later flowers are small, pale, 
and inconspicuous. This grows in dry places, especially on 
the prairies, and is very widely distributed in the western 
and west central states. 
This has a rough, hairy stem, about a 
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Pee mes foot tall, and dull green, rough, hairy 
multiflorum leaves, with bristles along the edges. The 
Yellow yellow flowers are half an inch long and 
Summer 
form rather pretty coiled clusters. This 
grows in open woods at the Grand Can- 
yon, and is found as far east as New Mexico and Colorado. 
There are a good many kinds of Amsinckia, natives of 
the western part of our country and of Mexico and South 
America. They are rather difficult to distinguish, rough, 
hairy or bristly, annual herbs, the bristles usually from a 
raised base, and with yellow flowers, in curved, rather 
showy, clusters. The corolla is more or less salver-form, 
without crests, but with folds; the stamens and pistil not 
protruding, the stigma two-lobed. In order to insure cross 
pollination by insects, in some kinds the flowers are of two 
types, as concerns the insertion of the stamens on the 
corolla and the length of the style. Several of these plants 
are valuable in Arizona for early spring stock feed, and the 
leaves of young plants are eaten by the Pima Indians for 
greens and salads. 
Ariz., Utah, etc. 
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