2. O. Caroliniànum, DC. Shaggy all over with long and spreading bristly hairs; stem stout, upright (2–4° high); leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute; lobes of the rather broad corolla ovate-triangular or triangular-lanceolate, thickly hirsute outside.—Alluvial grounds, W. New York to Minn., south to Ga. and Tex.
Var. mólle, Gray. Pubescence shorter and less spreading or appressed, 1–2° high; leaves mostly smaller (2´ long), when young softly strigose-canescent beneath. (O. molle, Michx.)—Ill. to Minn., Tex., and westward.
9. SÝMPHYTUM, Tourn. Comfrey.
Corolla oblong-tubular, inflated above, 5-toothed, the short teeth spreading; the throat closed with 5 converging linear-awl-shaped scales. Stamens included; anthers elongated. Style thread-form. Nutlets smooth, ovate, erect, fixed by the large hollowed base, which is finely toothed on its margin.—Coarse perennial herbs, with thickened bitterish mucilaginous roots; the nodding raceme-like clusters either single or in pairs. (Ancient Greek name from συμφεῖν, to grow together, probably for its reputed healing virtues.)
S. officinàle, L. (Common Comfrey.) Hairy, branched, winged above by the decurrent leaves; the lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a petiole, the upper narrower; corolla yellowish-white, rarely purplish.—Moist places; escaped from gardens. June. (Adv. from Eu.)
10. LYCÓPSIS, 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 included. Nutlets rough-wrinkled, erect, fixed by a hollowed-out base.—Annuals. (Name from λύκος, a wolf, and ὄψις, face.)
L. arvénsis, L. (Small Bugloss.) Very rough-bristly (1° high); leaves lanceolate; flowers in leafy raceme-like clusters; calyx as long as the tube of the small blue corolla.—Dry or sandy fields, New Eng. to Va.; scarce. (Adv. from Eu.)
11. ÉCHIUM, Tourn. Viper's Bugloss.
Corolla with a cylindraceous or funnel-form tube, and a more or less unequal spreading 5-lobed border; lobes rounded, the expanded throat naked. Stamens mostly exserted, unequal. Style thread-form. Nutlets roughened or wrinkled, fixed by a flat base. (A name of Dioscorides, from ἔχις, a viper.)