77& FLORA. 



14. BORAGO L. 



Hirsute or hispid annual or biennial herbs, with alternate entire leaves, and 

 showy blue flowers, in terminal loose leafy racemes. Calyx deeply 5 -cleft or 

 5 -parted. Corolla rotate, the tube short, the throat closed by scales, the limb 

 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated, acute. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube; filaments 

 dilated below, narrowed above into a slender appendage; anthers linear, erect, and 

 connivent into a cone. Nutlets 4, ovoid, erect, attached by their bases to the flat 

 receptacle, the scar of attachment large, concave. [Middle Latin, burra, rough 

 hair, alluding to the foliage.] Three species, natives of the Mediterranean region. 



4. Borago officinalis L. Borage. (I. F. f. 3054.) Stem 3-8 dm. high. 

 Leaves oblong to obovate, 5— 13 cm. long, narrowed into margined petioles, or the 

 upper smaller, ovate-lanceolate, sessile or partly clasping; flowers 1.5-2 cm. broad; 

 pedicels 3-5 cm. long, spreading or recurving; calyx-segments lanceolate, nearly 

 erect in fruit; corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, the cone of anthers darker, about 

 6 mm. long; nutlets 4 mm. high. In waste places, escaped from gardens, N. S. to 

 Ont. and Penn. Native of Europe. June-Sept. 



15. LYCdPSIS L. 



Annual bristly-hispid herbs, with alternate leaves, and small blue or bluish 

 flowers, in leafy-bracted terminal spike-like scorpioid racemes. Calyx 5 -parted. 

 Corolla slightly irregular, salverform, the tube curved, the limb somewhat un- 

 equally 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, imbricated, the throat closed by hispid scales. 

 Stamens 5, included, on the tube of the corolla; filaments short; anthers obtuse at 

 each end. Nutlets 4, wrinkled, erect, attached by their bases to the flat receptacle 

 the scar of attachment concave. [Greek, wolf-face.] About 4 species, natives of 

 the Old World. 



1. Lycopsis arvensis L. Small Bugloss. (I. F. f. 3055.) Stem 3-6 dm 

 high, the branches becoming procumbent. Leaves lanceolate, narrowly oblong 01 

 the lower oblanceolate, obtuse, 2-5 cm. long, undulate or dentate, sessile, or the 

 lower narrowed into petioles, the upper much smaller and acute or acutish; flowers 

 4-6 mm. broad; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, nearly as long as the curved 

 corolla-tube. In fields and waste places, N. S. to Ont., Penn. and Va. Nat 

 or adventive from Europe. June-Sept. 



16. ECHIUM L. 



Mostly bristly-hirsute herbs, with alternate leaves, and rather large blue violei 

 or rarely white flowers, in leafy-bracted scorpioid spikes. Calyx 5-parted, the seg 

 ments narrow. Corolla tubular-funnelform, the limb unequally 5-lobed, the lobe 

 rounded, spreading. Stamens 5, inserted low down on the tube of the corolla, un 

 equal, at least the longer ones exserted; filaments dilated at the base; anthers ovate 

 or oblong. Style filiform, 2-cleft at the summit. Nutlets 4, erect, ovoid, rugose 

 attached by their bases to the flat receptacle. [Greek, a viper. ] About 30 species 

 natives of the Old World. 



1. Echium vulgare L. Viper's Bugloss. Blueweed. (I. F. f. 3056. 

 Bristly-hairy, biennial; stem 3-8 dm. high. Leaves oblong, linear-oblong, o 

 linear-lanceolate, entire, 5-15 cm. long, sessile, or the lower and basal ones nar 

 rowed into petioles; flowers bright blue, varying to violet-purple, 1.5-2.5 cm 

 long, numerous in short isided spikes, forming a narrow thyrsus. In fields an< 

 waste places, N. B. to Va., Ont. and Neb. Nat. from Europe. June-July. 



Family 6. VERBENACEAE J. St.Hil. 



Vervain Family. 



Herbs, shrubs or some tropical genera trees, with opposite verticil 

 late or rarely alternate leaves, and perfect irregular, or sometimes regu 

 lar flowers, in spikes, racemes, cymes or panicles. Calyx inferioi 

 mostly persistent, usually 4-5-lobed or 4-5-cleft. Corolla regular, o! 

 2-lipped, the tube usually cylindric and the limb 4-5-cleft. Stamenj 

 4, didynamous, rarely only 2, or as many as the corolla-lobes, inserte 

 on the corolla and alternate with its lobes; anthers 2-celled, the sac 



