Lithospermum

(lith-6-spér’ mum), n. (NL. (Tournefort, 1700) (so called in allusion to the nuts or seeds, which are very hard and have a polished surface), Lithospermum tribe Borage, type of the subtribe Lithos per mee, characterized by a corolla with a eylindrical tube, a usually naked throat, and a spreading limb. The stamens are included, and the nutlets smooth, with a small flat surface at the base. There are about 40 species, growing throughout the warm and temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, in eastern Africa, and the western part of South America. They are rough hairy herbs, rarely undershrubs, bearing purple, blue, white, or yellow flowers, either solitary in the axils or (the upper) in dente bracted spikes or racemes, See gromwell, Keanet, 3, and puccoon. 001