An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . ecurrent, thelower often 8 long; flower-clusters rather loose;calyx about half as long as the corolla-tube, itssegments hispid; corolla bluish-purple. Waste grounds, Massachusetts to Maryland. Ad-ventive or naturalized from Europe. June-Aug. 15. BORAGO [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 137. 1753-Hirsute or hispid annual or biennial branching herbs, with alternate entire leaves, andshowy blu
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . ecurrent, thelower often 8 long; flower-clusters rather loose;calyx about half as long as the corolla-tube, itssegments hispid; corolla bluish-purple. Waste grounds, Massachusetts to Maryland. Ad-ventive or naturalized from Europe. June-Aug. 15. BORAGO [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 137. 1753-Hirsute or hispid annual or biennial branching herbs, with alternate entire leaves, andshowy blue flowers, in terminal loose leafy racemes. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or rotate, the tube very short, the throat closed by scales, the limb 5-lobed, the lobesimbricated, acute. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube; filaments dilated below, narrowedabove into a slender appendage; anthers linear, erect, and connivent into a cone. Ovary4-divided; style filiform. Nutlets 4. ovoid, erect, attached by their bases to the flat receptacle,the scar of attachment large, concave. [Middle Latin, burra, rough hair, alludmg to thefoliage.] Three species, natives of the Mediterranean region, the following
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