HYDROrHYLLACEjiB. 639 



S. grandiflora, Nutt. Biennial; stem simple, hairy (1°-1£° high); 

 leaves thin, long-petioled, cordate, crenate-serrate, obtuse, the floral ones 

 narrower, acuminate, sessile ; corolla large (1^ long), yellowish-white; 

 calyx-teeth acute. — Shady woods, Tennessee, and northward. June. 



STACHYS, L. 



S. COl'data, Biddell. Stem slender, more or less hirsute ; leaves thin, 

 oblong-cordate, crenate, acuminate, long-petioled, the floral ones minute ; 

 calyx-teeth broadly subulate. — Banks of streams, mountains of Georgia 

 and Tennessee. August. 



Order BORRAGINACE^E. 



CORDIA, Plum. 



C. Sebestena, T- (Gbiger-Tbek.) Rough-pubescent; leaves large 

 (■i'-S' long), ovate; cyme loose, many-flowered; calyx cylindrical, 2-5- 

 toothed, half as long as the tube of the large red corolla; stamens 5-b. — 

 Keys of South Fiorida. — A large shrub. 



HELIOTROPIUM, Tourn. 



H. polyphyllum, Lelrai. Rough, with short appressed white hairs ; 

 stems (1° long) spreading from a woody root, very leafy; leaves nearly 

 sessile, lanceolate ; spikes leafy; nutlets 4, hairy ; corolla white, or, in var. 

 Leavenworthii, Gray (H. Leavenworthii, Ton-.), bright yellow. — South 

 Florida, the variety near Miami (Gurber). 



H. tenellum, Torr. Annual, rough-hairy; stem erect (6' -12' high), 

 slender, branching; leaves linear; racemes leafy or naked, remotely few- 

 flowered, calyx-lobes linear, unequal; corolla white. — Alabama, West Ten- 

 nessee, and westward. 



H. anchusaefolium, Poir. Stem villous, simple ; leaves lanceolate ; 

 cyme compact, at length spreading; flowers violet-blue. — East Florida; 

 Augusta, Georgia; Montgomery, Alabama. Introduced. 



LITHOSPERMUM, L. 



L. latifolium, Michx. Softly pubescent ; leaves broadly lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate; root fibrous ; otherwise like L. tuberosum. — Tennessee, 

 and northward. — Stem l°-2° high. 



Order HYDROPHYLLACE^E. 



HYDROPHYLLUM, Tourn. 



H. macrophyllum, Nutt Hirsute; stem stout (l°-2° high) ; leaves 

 long (G'-10'), pinnatifid, with distinct oval toothed lobes, the upper lobes 



