BORAGINACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



2. Lappula texana (Scheele) Britton. Hairy 



Stickseed. Fig. 3512. 

 Cynoglossum pilosum Nutt. Gen. i: 114. 1818. Not 



R. & P. 1794. 



Echinospermum texanum Scheele, Linnaea 25 : 260. 1852. 

 Echinospermum Redowskii var. cupulatum A. Gray in 



Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. i : 530. 1876. 

 Lappula texana Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 273. 1894. 

 L. Redowskii occidentalis Rydb. Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 



170. 1895. 



Annual, similar to the preceding species, 6'-2 

 high, paniculately branched, the branches ascending 

 or erect. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, mostly 

 obtuse, the lower narrowed into petioles ; racemes 

 leafy-bracted ; pedicels short, not deflexed in fruit; 

 flowers about i" broad; nutlets papillose-tuberculate 

 on the back, the margins armed with a single row of 

 flat, usually more or less confluent bristles, or these 

 united into a cup. 



In dry soil, Ontario to Manitoba, British Columbia, 

 south to Nebraska, Texas and Arizona. Found also in 

 ballast at Atlantic seaports. Nutlets with nearly dis- 

 tinct bristles and others with bristles united into a cup 

 sometimes occur on the same fruit. April-Aug. 



3. Lappula virginiana (L.) Greene. Virginia Stickseed. Fig. 3513. 



Myosotis virginiana L. Sp. PI. 131. 1753. 

 Cynoglossum Morisoni DC. Prodr. 10 : 155. 1846. 

 E. virginicum Lehm. Asperif. 120. 1818. 

 Lappula virginiana Greene, Pittonia 2: 182. 1891. 



Biennial, pubescent; stem paniculately branched, 

 2-4 high, the branches slender, spreading. Basal 

 leaves (seldom present at flowering time) ovate or 

 nearly orbicular, cordate, long-petioled, mostly 

 obtuse; stem leaves ovate-oblong or oval, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, narrowed to the base, peti- 

 oled, 3'--8' long, i'-4' wide, the uppermost smaller, 

 sessile; racemes very slender, divergent, bracted at 

 the base, the bracts similar to the upper leaves; 

 pedicels slender, short, recurved in fruit ; corolla 

 nearly white, about i" broad; fruit globose, nearly 

 2" in diameter; nutlets covered on the margins and 

 usually also on the back by the slender distinct flat- 

 tened barbed prickles, the backs commonly also 

 more or less papillose. 



In dry woods and thickets, New Brunswick to On- 

 tario, Minnesota, Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska and 

 Kansas. Called beggar's-ticks or -lice. Virginia mouse- 

 ear. Soldiers. Stick-tight. Dysentery-root or -weed. 

 T 'ine-Sept. 



4. Lappula floribunda (Lehm.) Greene. 

 Large-flowered Stickseed. Fig. 3514. 



Echinospermum floribundum Lehm. in Hook. Fl. 



Bor. Am. 2: 84. pi. 16-}. 1834. 

 Lappula floribunda Greene, Pittonia 2: 182. 1891. 



Biennial or perennial, rough-pubescent ; stem 

 stout, paniculately branched, 2-5 high, the 

 branches nearly erect. Leaves oblong, oblong- 

 lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 2'-^ long, 2"-io" 

 wide, sessile, acute or obtuse at the apex, or the 

 lower narrowed into petioles ; racemes numerous, 

 erect or nearly so, very densely flowered, bracted 

 at the base, many of them in pairs ; pedicels 2 "-4" 

 long, reflexed in fruit ; flowers blue or white, 

 3"~5" broad ; fruit pyramidal, about 3" broad ; 

 nutlets keeled, papillose-tuberculate on the back, 

 the margins armed with a single row of flat 

 prickles, which are sometimes confluent at the 

 base. 



Western Ontario and Minnesota to Saskatchewan, 

 British Columbia, south to New Mexico and Califor- 

 nia. June-Aug. 



