. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. BORAGINACEAE (bOKAGB FAMILY) 683 6. SYMPHYTUM [Tourn.] L. Compbet Corolla 5-toothed, the short teeth spreading. Stamens included ; anthers elongated. Style thread-form. Nutlets erect, fixed by the large hollowed base, which is finely toothed on its margin. — Coarse perennial herbs, with thickened bitterish mucilagi- nous roots ; the nodding raoeme-lilce clusters either single or in pairs. (Ancient Greek name from (Tvii(j>, to cause to gr
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. BORAGINACEAE (bOKAGB FAMILY) 683 6. SYMPHYTUM [Tourn.] L. Compbet Corolla 5-toothed, the short teeth spreading. Stamens included ; anthers elongated. Style thread-form. Nutlets erect, fixed by the large hollowed base, which is finely toothed on its margin. — Coarse perennial herbs, with thickened bitterish mucilagi- nous roots ; the nodding raoeme-lilce clusters either single or in pairs. (Ancient Greek name from (Tvii(j>, to cause to grow together, probably for its reputed healing virtues.) 1. S. OFFICINALE L. (Common C.) Hairy, branched; upper leaves decurrent upon the stem in broad cuneate wings, the lower large, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; calyx-segments lance-linear; corolla yellowish- or pinkish-white to bluish- or roseate-purple; nutlets nearly smooth, somewhat shining. —TAoist places, escaped from gardens. June, July. (Introd. from Eu.) Fig. 861. 2. S. TDBERdsrjM L. Erect and rather slender from a knotted tuberous base, pubescent; leaves mostly elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate, petiolate, the petioles decurrent as very narrow wings upon the stem ; calyx-segments lanceolate, finely appressed- pubescentand somewhat hirsute ; corolla yellowish- white ; nutlets granulate-tuberculate, dull.—Low sandy meadows, Southington, Ct. {Andrews), and from Eu.) Harsh with short recurved priclde-like hairs ;. S. officinale. (Adv. Donn. very likely elsewhere. 3. S. ASPEREIMnM leaves not decurrent ; calyx very small, in anthesis 2-4 mm. long, prickly-hispid all over; corolla chiefly purple. — Low groui^, not rare. (Introd. from Eu.) 7. LYC6pSIS L. Bugloss Corolla funnel-shaped, with curved tube and slightly unequal limb; the throat closed with 5 convex obtuse bristly scales opposite the lobes. Stamens and style in- cluded. Nutlets rough-wrinkled, erect, fixed by a hollowed- o'ut base. —Annuals. (Name from Xii/cos,
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