BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceee. 



loosely arranged on a fine-hairy curving stem. The 

 fruit, four nutlets set in a four-sided pyramidal shape, 

 surmounted by the withering style. 2 feet high. Fields. 

 Me., south to N. Car., west to Minn. From Asia. 

 Wild Comfre ^ P ereuma l species with usually a sim- 

 Cynoglossum pie hairy stem, without leaves above. The 

 Virginicum basal leaves deep green, oblong lance- 

 Pale violet shaped, rough, and short -stemmed, the 

 upper ones clasping the stem by a heart- 

 shaped base. The pale violet flowers on a few long naked 

 stems ; the corolla divided into five rounded lobes. The 

 fruit, four depressed nutlets, convex on the upper face, 

 and hairy. l-2 feet high. In thin woods from Me., 

 south, west to Kan. and La. 



A biennial with a fine-hairy, branching 

 Jjef"" : " stem, slender and spreading. The basal 

 Eclunospernmm leaves vanishing, as a rule, at the period 

 }'irt//iii<-um of bloom, rather broad ovate ; the stem- 

 Lavender-white leaveg light green> Qvate and lance . 



SeTember shaped, growing quite small toward the 



top of the plant, acute at either end. The 

 flower-spikes very slender and bearing tiny white flowers 

 of a lavender tinge. The tiny burlike fruit covered with 

 barbed prickles. 2-4 feet high. The name from ;f2VoS, 

 a hedgehog, and 6itepi.ia, a seed, referring to the spiny 

 fruit. Common on the borders of dry woods. Me., 

 south to Ala. and La., west to Minn., S. Dak., and Neb. 



An annual species somewhat hairy, with 

 stlcksee" many small light gray-green linear leaves, 



Echinospei-mum the basal ones widest at the tip. The tiny 

 Lappula flowers light violet, thinly scattered on 



Light violet s iender branches. The fruit globose-oval, 

 S^tember burlike, and covered with minute slender 

 barbed prickles. 1-2 feet high. In waste 

 places from Me., south to N. J., and westward. 



A beautiful species frequently cultivated, 

 Cowslip* having rich violet-hued flowers nearly 1 



Mertensia inch long. The stem smooth and erect, 



Virginica sometimes branched. The deep green 



Violet leaves toothless, ovate pointed or obovate, 



March-May s fc ron giy veined, and scarcely stemmed; 



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