CLASS V.—PENTANDRIA. 
a 
Order 1.—MonoGynta. 
+ Flower monopetalous, inferior; seeds ac nilted. 
ASPERIFULIZ. 
4 HELIOTROPIUM. L. (Turnsol.) 
Calix tubulous, 5 toothed. Corolla salver- 
shaped, 5-cleft, with 5 intermediate teeth or 
piaits; orifice of the tube naked. Stigma emar- 
_ ginate. 
Spikes recurved, flowers inclined to one side. 
Spreizs. 1. H. indicum. Apparently native, in the 
warmer states. 2. curassavicum. 3. europeum? Around 
Harper’s Ferry, (Virginia.) On the banks of the Shenan- 
doah. Flowers white. Leaves hoary. This genus exists 
principally in the warmer parts of South America, (Pera 
_and the West Indies) and india, there are also some spe- 
cies in Africa, and 2 in Europe. A few of the err are 
ornamental and odorous. 
469. MYOSOTIS. L. (Scorpion-grass.) : 
-—- Calix 5-cleft.. Corolla salver-formed, tube 
_ short, border flat, 5-lobed, lobes subemarginate; 
orifice closed with 5 convex, connivent, squa- 
awe or sutall scales.) ace 1. Seed smooth 
. 
Flowers: mae disposed in ee one sided tikes. 
Species. 1. M. scorpisides. 2. arvensis. 3. virginiana. 
Lappula. 5. 
& “glomerata. Seeds rugose; leaves spathu- 
_ late-lmear, on the stem rather acute, Hine ties 8 spikes pe- 
-duncolate, axillary, conglomerate, bifid, sessile above; ca- 
tix siaapes hispid; lobes of the corolla entire. 
