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 . 4. Lithospermum pilosum Xutt. WoollyGromwell. Fig-. 3538. Lithospermum pilosum Nutt. Journ. Phil. Acad. 7: 43. Torreyi Nutt. loc. cit. 44. 1834. Perennial from thick roots, hirsute, rather palegreen; stems usually stout and clustered, very leafy,8-i8 high. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate,2-4 long, 2-5 wide, gradually acuminate to theapex, narrowed at t
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 . 4. Lithospermum pilosum Xutt. WoollyGromwell. Fig-. 3538. Lithospermum pilosum Nutt. Journ. Phil. Acad. 7: 43. Torreyi Nutt. loc. cit. 44. 1834. Perennial from thick roots, hirsute, rather palegreen; stems usually stout and clustered, very leafy,8-i8 high. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate,2-4 long, 2-5 wide, gradually acuminate to theapex, narrowed at the base, sessile, indistinctlyveined; flowers dull yellow, very numerous andcrowded in a terminal leafy thyrsus; calyx-seg-ments densely hirsute, shorter than the cylindriccorolla-tube; corolla salverform, the throat puberu-lent below each lobe; style longer than the filaments;nutlets ovoid, acute, white, shining, about 2 long. Western Nebraska (according to Williams) ; Wyo-ming to Montana, Alberta, British Columbia and Cali-fornia. May-July. Genus 12. BORAGE FAMILY. 89. 5. Lithospermum carolinense (Walt.) or Gnielins Puccoon. Fig. 3539. Anonyinos carolinensis Walt. Fl. Car. 91. carolinensis Gmel. Syst. 2: Part i, 315. carolinianum Lam. Tabl. Encycl. i: 397. hirtiim Lehm. Asperif. 305. carolinense MacM. Met. Minn. 438. 1892. Perennial, hispid-pubescent, or scabrous; stemsusually clustered, rather stout, simple, or branchedabove, i°-2i° high, very leafy. Leaves narrowlylanceolate, sessile, obtuse or acute at the apex, nar-rowed at the base, 2-2t long, the lowest commonlyreduced to appressed scales, the uppermost oblong;flowers 6-8 long, in dense short terminal leafyracemes, dimorphous; pedicels i-3 long; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than the tube ofthe orange-yellow salverform corolla; corolla-lobesentire, rounded, the throat crested, the tube beardedat the base within by 10 hirsute tee
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