Class V. Order I. 73 



Subgenus ROCHELIA. Seeds echinate. 

 MYOSOTIS VIRGINIANA. L. Virginia Monte ear. 



Hairy, seeds bristled with hooks, leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, racemes divaricate. 



Syn. ROCHELIA VIRGINIANA. R. $ S. 



Stem erect, furrowed, hairy, with numerous branches. Leaves 

 large, the lower ones petioled, lanceolate, entire, roughish, 

 hairy. Flowers small, in numerous short racemes. Calyx seg- 

 ments oblong, subacute. Corolla white, roundish, entire, as long as 

 the calyx, crowned at the mouth. Seeds covered with short ad- 

 hering hooks or bearded points. 



A weed in cultivated ground and rubbish July. Annual. 



75. HYDROPHYLLUM. 



HYDROPHYLLUM VIRGINICUM. L. Virginian Hydrophyllum. 

 Smooth ; leaves pinnatifid and pinnate, the seg- 

 ments oval-lanceolate, cut-serrate ; fascicles conglom- 

 erate. 



Root fleshy, fibrous, very sweet to the taste. Leaves pinnate ; 

 leafets ovate, cut and toothed acuminate, nearly smooth, the up- 

 per ones running together. Petioles clasping the stem. Stem a 

 foot high, somewhat semi-cylindrical. Flowers in a crowded 

 tuft at the top. Segments of the calyx linenr, pectinate with 

 hairs. Corolla bluish white, bell shaped, divided into five ob- 

 tuse segments, having each a triangular bivalved nectariferous 

 cavity running down its inside. Stamens twice as long as the 

 corolla. Germ covered with close, erect hairs. Style as long 

 as the stamens, bifid at top. On the sides of the Ascutne}' moun- 

 tain, Windsor, Vermont. June. Perennial. 



HYDROPHYLLUM CANADENSE. L. Canadian Hydrophyllum. 

 Leaves simple, lobed, angular, flowers in crowded 

 fascicles. 



Leaves large and broad, somewhat palmate, about seven 



lobed, cut and toothed. Flowers much as in the preceding. 

 Collected in the western part of the state. 

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