434 XCIV. BORRAGINACEiE. Myosotis. 



% St. a7id leaves usually glabrous and pellucid-punctate^ tJie radical ones 

 many-veined^ cauline sessile. Rac. terminal. 



1. M. ViRGiNicA. DC. (Pulmonaria. Linn. Lithosperraum pulchrum. 

 Lchm.) Virginian Lungicort. — Plant erect, smooth; cat. much shorter 



than the tube of the corolla, limb longer than the tube; radical lis. (large) 

 obovate-elliptical, obtuse ; cauline ones long-lanceolate^ — A smooth, erect, and 

 elegant plant, about 20' high, native in N. Y. to Ga. and W. States, sometimes 

 cultivated. The leaves of the stem are sessile, much narrower than those of 

 the root, whose width is | of their length. Flowers in terminal clusters.^ 

 Corolla blue, funnel-form, sitting upon a short, 5-toothed cal3^x. Stamens and 

 st}de included. Ma)^ 



2. M. MARiTiMA. G. Don. (Pulmonaria. Li7in. Lithospermum. Lehm.) 

 Glabrous; sts. and branches procumbent or ascending; Ivs. ovate, obtuse, 



fleshy, glaucous, the radical petiolate, cauline sessile ; rac. leafy ; cal. deeply 

 cleft," scarcely half as long as the glabrous corolla. — Sea shore, Northern States, 

 Pursh, N. to Greenland. Stem diffusely branched. Flowers purplish-blue, 

 limb longer than the tube. Jl. 



3. M. DKNTiccLATA. G. Don. (Pulmonaria. JRoem. Lithospermum. 

 Lchrn.y St. erect ; lis. glaucous, rather fleshy, acute-mucronate, ciliate- 



denticulate, radical ovate, petiolate, cauline oblong, sessile, 3- veined at bas»; 

 cal. segments acute; pedicels as long as the flower; sty. finally exserted. — N. Y. 

 Muhl. Torrey. Stems 6 — 12' high, clustered. Peduncles many-flowered. 

 Corolla pale purple. 



10. PULMONARIA. 



Piobabb' named from its ha\-ing been used in lung complaints. 



Calyx prismatic. 5-angled, 5-tootlied ; cor. infundibuliform, with a 

 cylindric tube, orifice hairy in 5 lines alternating with the stamens ; 

 ach. imperforate. — % European herbs. 



P. OFFICINALIS. Common Lungwort. — Plant rough ; cal. the length of the 

 tube of the corolla ; radical lis. ovate, cordate, scabrous, canline ones ovate, ses- 

 sile. — Native of England, but naturalized and cultivated in our gardens. 

 Flowers blue, in terminal cliTsters. Stem a foot high. This as well as other 

 foreign species of this genus, is a rough-leaved plant, while the several Ameri- 

 can species are uniformly smooth. May. % 



11. MYOSOTIS. Dill. 



Gr. jjtvos, a rat, and (ot)s) otos, an ear; from the form of the leaves. 



Calyx .5-cleft ; corolla hypocrateriform, the 5 lobes slightly emar- 

 ginate, orifice closed with short, concave scales ; achenia ovate, 

 smooth, with a small cavity at base. — Herbs, slightly villous. liac. 

 at length elongated. 



1. M. c^spiTu.sA. Schultz. a. laxa. DC. (M. palustris. Roth. M. scor- 

 poides. Wdld.) Marsh Scorpion Grass. — Nearly smooth, somewhat branched, 



erect; lis. linear-oblong, obtuse, with shoft, scattered hairs ; rac. without bracts; 

 pedicels divaricate in fruit, twice as long as the short, .spreading, smooth seg- 

 ments of the calyx. 1\ Grows about ditches and marshes. Can. and U. S., often 

 called vMter-mousc-£ar from the leaves, which are roughish with appressed hairs. 

 Stem about a foot high, with .scattered hairs, a.«cending from long, creeping 

 roots. Leaves scattered, sessile, 1 — 3' long, \ as wide. Racemes terminal, or 

 often one of them supra-axillary, one-sided. Flowers small, blue, on pedicels 

 \' long. May— Aug. 



2. M. sTRicT.A. Link. (M. arvensis. Rick, and Istedit. M. inflcxa. Engclm.) 

 Forget-me-not.— St. branching; Zrs. oval-lanceolate, hairy ; roc. long; pedi- 

 cels in fruit suberect, about as long as the calyx; cat. segments oval, acuminate, 

 hairv, clo.sed. about the length of the corolla. — ® Found in sandy woods, N. 

 Eng. ! to 111. ! Whole pl;int of a gravish hue from its dense ])ubescence. Stem 

 4^^10' high, at length much branched. Leaves h — 1' in length, sessile, acutish, 



