BORAGINEyE. 
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Stam. included ; filaments very short. Style simple. Nuts 
smooth, convex externally, keeled within, attached by a 
minute lateral spot near their base. — Distinguished from all 
the other genera of the Order by the contorted aestivation of 
its corolla. 
Tribe I. Cynoglossece. 
1. Asperugo Linn. 
1. A. procumbens (L.). The only species. — E. B. 661. — St. 
procumbent, angular, rough with short decurved bristles. L. ob- 
long, rough, hispid, lower ones stalked, upper sessile. Fl. small, 
axillary, solitary, blue, upon short peduncles. Cal. of the fr. 
much enlarged. — Waste places, rare. A. VI. VII. E. S. 
2. ECHINOSFERMUM Sw. 
[1. E. Lappula (Lehm.) ; st. branched above, 1. lanceolate 
adpressed-hairy, cor. longer than the calyx, fruit-stalks erect, nuts 
with a double series of barbed spines on the margins the disk 
and sides tubercled. — St. 43. 16. — St. and 1. covered with ad- 
pressed hairs giving them a silky appearance. Closely resem- 
bling a Myosotis but belonging to a different tribe. — In one spot, 
upon shingle, near Southwold, Suff., in very small quantity ; 
possibly introduced but by what means I cannot conjecture, cer- 
tainly neither with seed nor amongst ballast. — A. VI.] E. 
3. Cynoglossum Linn. 
1. C. officinale (L.) ; 1. downy acute, lower 1. elliptical con- 
tracting into a petiole, upper I. lanceolate narrowed below sub- 
cordate half clasping — E. B. 921. — Cor. dull crimson, without 
veins. " Nuts plane in front surrounded by a thickened promi- 
nent margin." — Waste ground. B. VI. VII. Hound's-tongue. 
2. C. montanum (Lam.) ; I. slightly hairy acute nearly glabrous 
and shining above scabrous beneath, inferior oblong narrowed 
into a long petiole, upper I. lanceolate slightly narrowed below 
clasping. — C. sylvaticum Sm. E. B. 1642. — Cor. reddish, chan- 
ging to blue. L. sometimes very scabrous. — " Road-sides and 
hedges in shady situations." B. VI. VII. 
Tribe II. Anchusece. 
4. Borago Linn. 
fl. B. officinalis (L.) ; lower 1. obovate obtuse attenuated be- 
low, segments of the cor. ovate acute flat spreading. — E. B. 36. 
— Fl. blue. Stem-1. much narrowed below so as to appear 
stalked, eared at the base. Whole plant hispid with tubercled 
