BORAGINACE^E. 



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September, and grows about two feet high ; it has the dis- 

 advantage however of being without the sweet scent of the 

 Heliotrope. It is easily increased by cuttings or seeds. 



B OR A GIN A CEJE. 



Exogens, having flowers in one-sided, curled spikes or racemes, 

 sometimes solitary and axillary. Calyx not falling off, with four 

 or five divisions. Corolla monopetalous, generally regular, four 

 or five-cleft, imbricated in bud. Stamens inserted upon the co- 

 rolla, equal to and alternate with the lobes. Ovary four-parted, 

 four-seeded. — Herbaceous plants and shrubs; leaves alternate, 

 often covered with asperities, consisting of hairs proceeding from 

 a hardened base ; natives principally of temperate climates, and 

 having soft, mucilaginous properties. 



ARNEBIA. 



Gen. Char. {Pentandiia Monogynia.) Calyx five-parted ; co- 

 rolla a long tube, throat naked, with the lobes rounded ; anthers 

 inserted within the tube. 



A. echioides is a very pretty plant, and though sufficiently 

 hardy to be planted out in the summer, is ornamental for 

 the greenhouse, flowering in June and July, and being very 

 gay ; the large flowers grow in scorpion-like spikes, and are 



