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HORA'GO * 
Linnean Class and Order. Penta'ndria f, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Boragi'xete, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 128. — Lindl- 
Syn. p. 163; Introd. to Nat. Syst. p. 241. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p- 
440. Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 102 . — Asperifoliae, Linn. Sm- 
Eng. FI. v. i. p. 247. 
Ge.v. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, of one sepal, deeply di- 
vided into 5 moderately spreading segments, permanent. Corolla 
(fig. 2.) of 1 petal, wheel-shaped ; tube of various lengths ; limb in 
5 deep, flat, or twisted segments, widely spreading; mouth bor- 
dered with 5 short, blunt, notched valves, or with awl-shaped ones, 
or with both, in whicli case the latter bear the stamens at the inner 
side (fig. 3). Filaments 5, awl-shaped, various in length, converg- 
ing. Anthers arrow-shaped, or oblong and notched. Germens 
(figs. 4 and 5.) 4. Style (fig. 4.) cylindrical. Stigma capitate. 
Seeds 4, (figs. 5 and 6.), egg-shaped, converging, rugged, or tuber- 
culated, keeled outwardly towards the point, globular at the base, 
attached to the bottom of the closed calyx. 
The wheel-shaped corolla, with its mouth closed with awl-shaped 
or notched valves, and the 4 (apparently) naked seeds, will distin- 
guish this from other genera, with a monopetalous, inferior corolla, 
in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
BORA'GO OFFICINA'LTS. Common Borage. 
Spec. Ciiar. Lower Leaves inversely egg-shaped, narrowed at 
the base. Segments of the corolla egg-shaped, pointed, spreading. 
Eng. Bot. t. 36. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 197. — Muds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 82. — 
Sm. FI. Blit. v. i. p.219. Engl. FI. v. i. p. 264. — With. (7th ed.) v. li. p.284. 
— Lindl. Syn. p. 164. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 82. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 71. — Abbot’s 
FI. Bedf. p. 43. — Thornton’s Family Herbal, p. 167. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 
III. — llellian’s FI. Cantab. (3rd ed.) p. 82. — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 70. — Giev. FI. 
Edin. p. 46. — FI. Devon, pp. 35. and 151. — Johnston’s FI. of Berwick, v. i. p. 
53. — Perry’s PI. Varv. Select, p 16. — Kev. G. E. Smith’s PI. of S. Kent, p. 
13. — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 50. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of Ireland, p.21.— Baxt. 
Lib. of Agiicul. and Hort. Know). (2nd ed ) p. 54. — Borayo hortensis, John- 
son’s Gerarde, p.797. — Borago officinalis, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. it. p.350. — 
Borrago hortensis, Bay’s Syn p. 228. 
Localities. — In waste or cultivated ground, byroad-sides, and amongst rub- 
bish. A doubtful native. — Oxfordshire ; Near the Parks: Dr. SiEruonv. 
Side of the Banbury road, between Oxford and Summer Town, August, 1831. 
IV. B . — Berks ; On walls and among rubbish : Dr. M a vou’s Agticul. Surv. of 
Berks. — Bedfordshire; Duck Mill, Bedford; Amplhill Warren: Rev. C. 
Abbot, in El. Bedf . — Cambridgeshire ; Parker’s Piece; Emmanuel College; 
Jesus Grove; Cow-fen: Rev. It. Rf.lhan. — Cornwall ; Kedgworth ; near St. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. —Fig. 2. Corolla, with the Valves and Stamens. — Fig. 3. One of 
the Stamens, attached to one of the awl-shaped Valves. — Fig. 4. Germen, Style, 
and Stigma. — Fig. 5. Lobes of the Calyx removed, showing the four unripe 
seeds attached to its base. — Fig. 6. A ripe Seed, or N ut. 
*■ From Cor, heart, and ago, tobring ; thence corrupted into Borago, or as 
the French spell it, Borrago. Dr. Hook i n. 
t See Anchusa sempervirens, p. 48. note *. 
