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BOUAGK FAMILY. 



O. Virginianum. Clothed with harsh l.ut a]. pressed short bristles, 1 - 2 C 

 hL'h, with obloni: leaves, ami lance-awl-shaped lobes of narrow corolla spar- 

 Inj I v bristly outside. 



O. Carolinianum. From \ew York \V. \ S. : shaggy with rouirh and 

 spreading bristles, stout, :j-4 high, with lance-ovate or oblong-acnte leaves, 

 and lobes of rather broad cm-olla triangular and thicklv hairv. 



O. molle. Only W. : hoary with softer and whi'ti.-h appressed hairs, the 

 oblong-ovate b!unti.-h leaves strongly ribbed, and lobes of the triangular-pointed 

 lobes of the narrow corolla thickly hairv outside. 



5. LITHOSPERMUM, GKOM\YELL, PUCCOON. (Name from 

 Greek, means st<,,,,/ ,//.) Flowers in late spring and summer, at length 

 scattered or as if spiked, leafy -bracted. 



1. Corolla white or nnhi // /////>// //, the wholly nak<-d throat, scarcely longer titan 

 the calyx : tuttifta rough-wrinkled uml />/'t/,J, ,/''<"/ and dull. (T) @ 



L. arvense, COIJN GHOMWKLL. Nat. from Eu. in waste drv soil, 6'- 12' 

 high, roughish-hoary, with lanceolate or linear leaves and inconspicuous flowers. 



-2. Corolla dull w/iili.i/i, rather short, with little downy scales or rather fMs in 

 the thront .- null, is smooth or with a few fiores, often ivory-white. T/ 



L. angUStifdlium. River-banks from 111. S. & W. : minutely roughish- 

 hoary, bra-iehed, (',' - 15' high, with linear rigid leaves, short peduncles recurved 

 in fruit, and corolla not longer than calyx. 



L. officinale, COMMON- (J. of Europe, a weed by some roadsides : l-2 

 high, branched above, with broadish-lanceolate acute leaves rough above but 

 soft-downy beneath, and corolla longer than calyx 



L. Iatif61ium. From W. New York \V."& S. : larger and rougher than 

 the last, ovate and lance-ovate pointed leaves 2' - 4' long and prominently 

 ribbed, those from the root larger and roundish ; corolla shorter than calvx. 



3. Corolla />/////// >/v;v -yi-llmr, xliniri/, longer than calyx, almost salvrr-shaped, 

 with little. aj>]H'>i(la</i's in the throat crid.t-nt : nutlets smooth, usually irory-icftitr. 



L. hirtum, ll\n:v PITCCOON. Dry ground, chiefly S. & \V. : l-2 

 hi^h, roughish-bristly, with lanceolate or linear leaves, or those next the (lowers 

 ovate-Oblong and hriMly-eiliate, the crowded flowers pednncled, tube of the 

 corolla scarcely longer 'than the breadth of the border (f'-l'j and woolly- 

 b'Mi-dcd at b:i.>e inside. 



L. canescens, HOARY P. Mostly N. & W. : softer-hairy and somewhat 

 hoarv, 6'- 15' high, smaller-flowered than the preceding, and tube of corolla 

 smooth at ba-ie inside. 



L. Iongifl6rum, only on prairies N. W., has linear leaves, and tube of 

 corolla 1' 01 more long, many times longer than the eroded-toothed lobes. 



6. MYOSOTIS, FORGET-ME-NOT or SCORPION-GRASS. (Xamo 

 in (iivck means >timise-<w, from the short soft leaves of some species.) Fl. 

 spring and summer. 



M. palustris, TIM-I: F., in gardens and somc^ waste jilaees, with loosely 

 branched stems ascending from a creeping base, rough-pubescent lance-oblong 



leave-;, moderately 5-clcft calyx shorter than the spreading pedicels, its hairs 

 not hooked nor glandular, and its lobes open in fruit; corolla li^ht blue with a 

 yellow eye.- - Yar. I.AXV, wild in wet places X., has .-mailer flowers Oil still 

 longer pedicels ^/ 



M. arvensis. Not rare in fields, &<. : birsute, with Iauce-ob!<>ng acutish 

 leaves, ra.-emes naked at base and .-talked, small blue corolla, pedicels spreading 

 in fruit and longer than the 5-eleft c.pial calyx, the lobes of which are closed in 

 fruit, and th-- tub beset with some hooked o'r glandular-tipped hairs. i i 



M. v6rna. Dry hills : bristly-hirsute, erect (4'- 10 hitjh), branched from 

 base, with oblong and blunt leaves, racemes IcafV at base, very small mostly 



white corolla, pedicels in fruit erect and appressed at base, but abruptly bent 



outwards near the apex, and rather shorter than the unequal very bristly calyx, 

 some of its bristles hooked or glandular at their tip. 



