206 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. echium. 



Boot biennial. Stem 2 — 3 feet high, branched towards the top. 

 Leaves sessile, ^biuse, eiitire, hispid and papillose ; radical 

 ones petinlate. S/iikes numerous, secund, recurved. Flowers 

 sessile, with leafy bracts at the base. Corolla brilliant blue, 

 when first expanded reddish-purple. Stamens exserted ; en- 

 thers minute. Style filiform, 2-cleft at the apex. 



Hab. Oi» hill sides. Near New-Brunswick, New-Jersey. 

 Miy — July. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg. Intro- 

 duced ? Blue-tueed. 



136. MYOSOTIS. L. 



Calyx 5-parted, or 5-cleft. Corolla hypocrateriform ; 

 segments very obtuse; orifice closed with connivent 

 scales. Lehm. Asperif. p. 79. Cen.pl 240. Nutt, 

 Gt'Ti. p. 112. Juss. ^. lo\. R. Brown Prod. I. 

 p. 494. Roem.^ Schult. Gen. 644. Nat. Ord. 

 Bo R A G I K E ^ /z< s 5. Scorpion- grass. 



1. M. palustris Roth.: leaves lanceolate, a little sca- 

 brous with appressed hairs ; peduncles divergent when in 

 fruit, twice as long as the 5-toothed spreading calyx ; border 

 of the corolla flat, longer than the tube. Lehra. Asperif, p. 

 88. P ursh FL 1. p. 133. M. scorpioides W il I d. Spec, 

 I. p. 746. M u h l. Cat. p. 1 8. Ro em. ^ S chul t. \Y. 

 p. 101. M. scorpioides ^.palustris L. Sp. pi. 188. 



Hoot perennial, creeping. Stem a foot high, slender, very smoollij 

 a little branched towards the top. Leaves lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed at the base, obtuse, covered with short appressed hairSy 

 which are scarcely seen in the fresh plant. Racemes without 

 bracts, very long, secund, at first recurved ; pedicels filiform, 

 lengthening as the fruit forms. Teeth of the calyx acute. 

 Corolla very small, bright blue, with a yellow spot in the cen- 

 tre. Seed ovate, shining. 



Hab. In riitches and small streams ; very common. May — July. 

 The North- American plant differs from P. palustris of some 

 European authors, in having very minute flowers, but almost 

 exactly resembles specimens from England, sent to me by A. 

 Hanvorth, Esq. L e h m a rin has made it a new species, 

 which he calls M. laxa.\ 



J^. M. arvcnsis S i b f. h. : leaves oblong-lanceolate, hairy : 

 racemes long; pedicels short, spreading when in fruit; calyx 

 S-cleft, closed ; limb of the corolla erect-spreading, about as 



\ M. laxa: caule filiformi l.iso, foliis ohovato-lanceolatis obtusis sub* 

 glabris, racemis ebracteiilis longissimis, pedicellis in fructu divergentibus 

 longissimis calyce patente obtuso muUo-lon^ioribus, corollis parvjs. 

 Lehm. 1- c. p. b3. 



