KY0S0T15. PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. !I07 



long as the tube. Lehm. ^sperif. p. 90. Will d. Spec, 

 I. p. 747. Pur sh Fl. I. p. 133. Muhl. Cof. p. 18. Rocm. 

 ir S chult. IV. p. 103. M. scorpioides a. arvensis L. Sp» 

 pi. 188. jM i c h. Fl. [. p. 129. M. verna N utt. Gtn. Supp, 

 Lycopsis virgmica P ur sh FL I. p. 133 ? excl. syn. 



Root annual. Whole plant covered with a gray pubescence. 

 Stem simple or with a few branches, 4 — 8 inches high. Leaver 

 oblong-lanceolate, rather acute. Racemes long. Flowers on 

 short petioles. Calyx covered with spreading hairs; seg- 

 ments acute. Corolla white, very small. Seeds smooth and 

 shining. 



Hab. In sandy woods. New-York and New-Jersey. June. 



137. LYCOPSIS. L. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla infundibuliform ; tube in-* 

 curved; orifice closed with ovale connivent scales. 

 AS^ef/^ perforated at the base. Gen. pi. 250, Nutt. 

 Gen. I. p. 116. Juss. p. 131. Lam. III. t. XCII. 

 Roem. ^ Schult, Gen. 638. Nat. Ord. Bora- 

 gin e jE Juss. Small Bugloss, 



L. arvensis L. : leaves lanceolate, semiamplexicaul, re- 

 pand-denticulate, very hispid •, racemes leafy; caljx erect. 

 Willd.Spec.l.p.lQO. Eng. Bot. t. 93ii. PiirshFl.], 

 p. 132. Muhl. Cat. Id. Roem. ^' Schult, W.^. 12. 

 Anchusa arvensis Lehm. Asptrif. p. 225. 



Root annual. Whole plant hispid, almost bristly. Leaves about 

 2 inches long, the lower ones tapering into a petiole. Calyx: 

 as long as the tube of the corolla; segments lanceolate, erect 

 when ill fruit. Corolla blue ; border a little unequal. Seeds 

 reticulated with elevated veins, with a lateral ring near the 

 base. 



Hab. In sandy fields. Near Cambridge, New-York. Dr. 

 Stevenson. Williamsiown, Massachusetts. Dewey. 

 Scarcely different from Anchusa, except in the tube of the 

 eoroUa being curved. 



138. CYNOGLOSSUM. L. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla short infundibulifofni ; 

 orifice closed \vith connivent scales. Seeds depressed, 

 fixed to a central colum. Gen. ^1.243. Lehm, 

 Asperif. p. 70. Nutt. Gen. I. p. 114. Juss. p. 

 131. Lam. ///. t. XII. f. 1. Roem. iis)' Schult, 

 Gen. 639. Nat. Ord. Bo b a c i n e^ /;^ ^ s. HowkPs 



tongue* 



