. Flowers of the field. Botany. BORAGE 343 â pedicels in long, slender, leafless clusters, with a solitar)' flower some distance below them in the axil of the uppermost leaf; calyx with hooked bristles.âDry banks ; common. On its first appearance, in April, the flowers are buried among the leaves ; but the stems finally lengthen into racemes, and as the season advances the whole plant dries up and disappears.^Fl. Aprilâ July. Annual. S. M. versicolor (Parti- coloured ).â A very distinct species, less than a foot high; stem leafy below, naked above ; leaves sessile, line
. Flowers of the field. Botany. BORAGE 343 â pedicels in long, slender, leafless clusters, with a solitar)' flower some distance below them in the axil of the uppermost leaf; calyx with hooked bristles.âDry banks ; common. On its first appearance, in April, the flowers are buried among the leaves ; but the stems finally lengthen into racemes, and as the season advances the whole plant dries up and disappears.^Fl. Aprilâ July. Annual. S. M. versicolor (Parti- coloured ).â A very distinct species, less than a foot high; stem leafy below, naked above ; leaves sessile, linear-oblong, sub - acute; flowers very minute, in clusters, on long, leafless stalks, tightly coiled up, when in bud, in the scorpioid manner which gives these plants the name of Scorpion-grass, at first pale yellow, afterwards blue.âFields and banks ; pommon.âFl. AprilâJune. Annual. I O. L IT H O S P E R JI U iM (Gromwell).â Herbs, some- times shrubby, with flowers in leafy clusters ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; corolla funnel - shaped, its throat naked, or with 5 minute scales ; stamens included ; nutlets stony. (Name from the Greek Hthos, a stone, spenna seed, from its hard nutlets.) 1. L. purpi'ireo-ccsrideum (Purple Gromwell), wnth prostrate, barren stems, and erect flowering ones, i â 2 feet high, with large, bright, blue-purple floiccrs, occurs rarely in woods on chalky or lim'estone soil, chiefly in the south.âFl. AlayâJuly. Perennial 2. L. offldndle (Common Gromwell, or Grey Millet). â Dis- tinguished' by its erect stems, iâj feet high, much branched towards the summit, and generally growing 5 or 6 from the same root; oblong, acute, sessile leaves, bristly above, hairy beneath; small yellowish white flowers; and, above all, by its highly polished. ^RMUM ,\l£ iConijiiou Grp}j:l^'cii, or G>cy Milht).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appe
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