PL ex. cor, 31. BORAGINEiE. 109. Borrago. 351 
Road-sides; annual; 
Root fusiform; stem upright, hispid, branchy; branches 
upright, spreading; leaves hispid ; flowers drooping; pedi - 
cells long, 1 -sided. — Racemes terminal, short, bracteated; 
corolla skyblue ; stamens and arches black. 
0. alba. Flower white. 
Borrago flore albo, Ger. cm. 797, 2. 
V. 110. ASPERUGO. Pliny. Madwort . 
Calyx round, deeply 5- cut, with teeth between the cuts, 
becoming long and compressed; lamellae flat, parallel, 
sinuated, toothed ; corolla rather funnelshape, mouth 
arched; arches convex, connivent ; filaments short; anthers 
rounded; stigma capitate; cariopsides 4, 1 -celled, smooth, 
compressed, not perforated at bottom ; gy nobasis columnar. 
Asperugo procurnbens. Procumbent madwort. 
Asperugo vulgaris, Raii Syn. 228. 
Aparine major Plinii, Ger. em. 1122,2. 
Borrago minor sylvestris, Park. 765. 
Asperugo procurnbens, Lin. S. P. 198. 
Great goose-grass. German madwort. 
Rich waste land ; annual ; April and May. 
Root slender; stem procumbent, flagelliform, branchy, 
with small hooked spines; leaves in threes or fours, oblong, 
obtuse; rough above; rather baldish beneath; edges hairy, 
hooked ; flowers from the side of the leaf, solitary, purplish. 
/3. alba. Flowers white. 
VI. 111. BUGLOSSA. Dioscorides. Bugloss. 
Calyx 5-parted; corolla funnelshape; mouth closed; arches 
upright, blunt; cariopsides 4, 1 -celled, topshape, concave, 
perforated at bottom ; gynobasis flat, small.— Flowers race- 
mose; fruit upright. 
1 . Buglossa arvensis. Field bugloss. 
Stem upright, branchy ; leaves lanceolate, half-embracing, 
subrepand, toothed, strigose, very rough; racemes leafy; 
calyx as long as the bent tube ; lobes of the corolla unequal, 
lanceolate. 
Buglossa sylvestris minor, Raii Syn. 227, 1 ; Ger.em. 799, 3. 
Buglossum sylvestre minus, Park. 765. 
Lycopsis arvensis, Lin. S. P. 199. 
Anchusa arvensis, Ilojfm. et Link FI. Lusit. 1, 179. 
Small wild bugloss. 
