ASPERIFOLIATE, or ASPERIFOLIUS, among botanists, such plants as are rough-leaved, having their leaves placed alternately on their stalks, and a monopetalous flower divided into five parts.—They constitute an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi naturalis of LINNAEUS, in which are these genera, viz. tournefortia, cerinthe, symphytum, pulmonaria, anchusa, lithospermum, myolous, heliotropium, cynoglossum asperum, lycopis, echium, borrago: magis minusve clearcea, mucilaginoae, & glutinoae sunt. LIN. In the present system, these are among the pentandria monogynia.