. 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. 2. CYNObLOSSUM [Toum.] L. Hound's ToNonB Corolla funnel-form, the tube about equaling the 5-parted calyx; lobes rounded. Stamens included. Nutlets depressed or convex, oblique, fixed near the apex to the base of the style, roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. — Coarse herbs, with petioled lower leaves ; the mostly panicled (so- called) racemes naked above, usually bracted at base. (Name from Kiwv, a dog, and y\u)<Tca, tong
. 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. 2. CYNObLOSSUM [Toum.] L. Hound's ToNonB Corolla funnel-form, the tube about equaling the 5-parted calyx; lobes rounded. Stamens included. Nutlets depressed or convex, oblique, fixed near the apex to the base of the style, roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. — Coarse herbs, with petioled lower leaves ; the mostly panicled (so- called) racemes naked above, usually bracted at base. (Name from Kiwv, a dog, and y\u)<Tca, tongue ; from the shape and texture of the leaves.) 1. C. opFiciNiLE L. (Common H.) Biennial, clothed with short soft hairs, leafy, panicled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile by a rounded or slightly heart-shaped base; racemes nearly bractless; corolla reddish-purple (rarely white); nutlets flat on the broad upper face, somewhat margined. — Waste ground and pastures, locally abundant, the large nutlets adhering to the fleece of sheep, etc. (Nat. from Eu.) — Strong-scented. Fig. 852. 2. C. virginianum L. (Wild Comfeey.) Perennial, roughish with spreading bristly hairs; stem simple, few- leaved, 3-8 dm. high; stem-leaves lanceolate-oblong, clasp- ing by a deep heart-shaped base; racemes few and corymhed, raised on long naked peduncles, bractless ; calyx in anthesis mm. long; corolla pale blue, cm. broad, with suborbicular lobes and closed sinuses; nutlets strongly eohinate, compressed-orbioular-obovoid, cuneate at base, 7-9 mm. long. — Open deciduous woods, N. J. to Mo., southw. and southwestw. May. 3. C. boreHle Fernald. Similar, but more slender ; stems 852. c. officinale. viUous-hispid at base, appressed-pubescent above; only the upper stem-leaves clasping; calyx in anthesis mm. long; corolla 6-S mm. broad, the lobes oblong-ovate, the sinuses open; nutlets compressed-pyriform-obovoid, 4-5 mm. long. (0. virginicum Man. ed. 6, in part.) —O
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