4. Myosotis (Ruppe) L. Forget-me-not, 
Annuals or perennials with alternate leaves. Flowers small, cymose or 
racemoseée Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla blue or white, rotate, the throat closed by 
conspicuous protuberances. Nutlets smooth and shining, 
() Perennials corolla 6 mm, broad; nutlets black, I. iM. laxa 
@ Annual; corolla 1-1.5 mm, broad; nutlets silvery or brown, 
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1. M. laxa Lehm,. Perennials with slender creeping rootstocks; 
Stems lax, reclining on other toliage, appressed-pubescent; leaves crowded 
or distant, o-7 cm. long, 4-8 mm, wide, oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, more ’ 
of less narrowed to the base, sessile, appressed-pubescent to subglabrous; 
flowers numerous in lax naked coiled cymes 20-30 cm, long, on slender pedicels 
3-4 mm. long, increasing to 6-8 mm, in fruit; calyx © mm, long in flower, 
appressed-hispid, the lobes ovate, shorter than the tube, increasing to 2,5 
im. in fruit, the lobes then about 1 mm, long; corolla a pale pure blue, : 
6 mm, broad; nutlets black, 1.5 mm, long, the margins acute, both faces very 
smootn. 
Infrequent in boggy or swampy ground under shrubbery. —> 
——> Port Hill, Epling 10486; Pritchard, 3000 ft., Epling and Houck 10189, 
2°, M. virginica (L.) BSP. var. macrosperma (Engelm.) Fern, Annual with erect 
branching thinly hirsute stems 10-40 cm, tall; leaves 1-2 cm, Iong, the lower 
oblanceolate, the upper oblong, obtuse at both ends, hirsute; flowers in 
naked coiled cymes 10-20 cm, long, on pedicels 1-2 mm, long; calyx 2 m, long 
in flower, hispidulous with hooked hairs especially at the base, the lobes 
shorter than the tube, increasing to 3 mm, in fruit, the lobes then subequal 
%o the tube; corolla blue, 1.5 mm, long, 1 mm, broad; nutIets silvery, 1.2 mm, 
Tong, the margins acute. (M. macrosperma Engelm,). 
Moist ground near Santa, Epling, Wyckoff and Offord, 
3. M. stricta Link Annual with erect simple or branching hirsute stems ; 
5-50 om. tall; leaves 5-15 mm, long, the lower spatulate, short petioled, the i 
upper narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, sessile; flowers in nearly naked ra- ; 
cepes; calyx 1.5-2 mm, long in flower, hispid with hooked hairs, the lobes longer, 
than the tube, increasing to 5-4,5 mm, in fruit; corolla blue with a yellow 
tube, 1.5 mm, wides nutlets brown, 1 mm, long, (M. micrantha sensu Johnston). 
Recent introduction from Hurasia, occasional in grasslands and waste 
ground. 
