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Boraginaceae Brat 
CONANTHUS 
Herbs, low, annual, rough-hairy. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers solitary, in 
the forks of leafy branches. Calyx-sinuses without appendages; segments not enlarged 
in fruit. Corolla tubular-funnelform, without appendages inside. Stamens included, un- 
equal and unequally inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary |-celled or 
nearly 2-celled; style 2-lobed. Capsule rounded-ovate. Seeds 10—-20, smooth. (Gk. 
konos=a cone, anthos—a flower; probably referring to the form of the corolla.) 
A. Corolla 5 mm. or less long. E. (Gilia hispida.) 
C. parviflora Greenm. 
AA. Corolla 6 mm. or more long. E. 
C. aretioides Wats. 
ROMANZOFFIA 
Herbs, perennial, |—2.5 dm. high (ours). Leaves alternate, chiefly basal, round 
or reniform or cordate, crenately lobed; petioles long, leaves in ours 3——7-lobed, 2.510 
cm. long. Flowers showy, loosely racemose or somewhat paniculate, on scape-like stems, 
white (ours). Corolla funnelform (ours) or almost campanulate, 12—-17 mm. long 
(ours). Stamens on base of the corolla-tube, unequal. Ovary 2-celled or nearly so; 
placentae narrowly linear; style 1; stigma entire. Capsule long, retuse. Seeds many. 
(Honor of N. Romanzoff, a Russian nobleman who sent Kotzebue to Alaska.) W. C. 
R. sitchensis Bong. 
NAMA (Hydrolea) 
Herbs (ours) or somewhat shrubby at base, low; ours annual, diffuse or depressed, 
5—10 cm. long, dichotomously branched. Leaves alternate; in ours entire, linear-spat- 
ulate, |2—-30 mm. long. Flowers terminal or lateral or in the stem-forks (ours). Calyx- 
segments in ours linear or setaceous, 8 mm. long. Corolla funnelform or somewhat sal- 
verform, purple (ours), about 12 mm. long (ours). Filaments included, somewhat 
unequally inserted, unequal. Ovary nearly or quite 2-celled. Capsule loculicidal, short- 
oblong (ours). Seeds 10—-16 (ours). (Gk. nama—a stream; probably referring to 
the habitat.) E. N. demissum Gray 
ERIODICTYON 
Shrubs; ours glabrous, glutinous with a balsamic resin, erect, 9—1I5 dm. high. 
Leaves alternate, pinnately veined, finely reticulate; in ours lanceolate, 7.5—-15 cm. long, 
entire or serrate, evergreen, green and glabrous above, whitish and short-hairy beneath. 
Flowers white or violet or purple (ours), in scorpoid cymes. Sepals narrow, subulate 
(ours), not enlarging upward, 4 mm. long (ours). Corolla tubular-funnelform (ours) 
or campanulate, 12 mm. long (ours). Filaments included. Ovary nearly or quite 
2-celled. Capsule small, 4-valved, loculicidal and septicidal. Seeds few. (Gk. erion= 
wool, diktyon—a net; from the hairy and reticulate-veiny under side of the leaves.) E. 
EK. glutinosum Benth. (Yerba Santa) 
BORAGINACEAE Borage Family 
Herbs (ours) or shrubs or trees, annual or perennial. Leaves alternate, rarely 
opposite or whorled, mostly entire, hairy; stipules none. Flowers perfect, usually regular, 
mostly blue, mostly in 1-sided scorpoid spikes or racemes or cymes, rarely scattered. Calyx 
mostly 5-lobed or -cleft or -parted, usually persistent. Corolla sympetalous, mostly regu- 
