BORAGE FAMILY 



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the uppermost, longer than the calyx, some of the hairs on the tube minutely hooked at apex, 



those on the lobes bristly and straight, lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, about equaling or 



longer than the tube; corolla blue or white, limb 2-3 mm. wide, concave; nutlets dark brown 



and glossy, convex on the dorsal, ventral side angled by the prominent keel, lateral angles 



narrowly margined. 



In fields and waste places; frequent in western Washington and western Oregon. Adventive from Europe, 

 but more widely naturalized in eastern United States. April-July. 



6. Myosotis micrantha Pall. Blue Scorpion Grass. Fig. 4187. 



Myosotis micrantha Pall, in Lehm. Neue Schr. Naturf. Ges. Halle 3°: 24. 1817. 



Annual or biennial, stems slender, 1-2 dm. high, simple or branched, usually from near the 

 base, erect or ascending, rather thinly hirsute-pubescent toward the base, appressed-pubescent 

 above. Leaves with thinly hirsute-pubescent spreading hairs, the basal oblanceolate, narrowed 

 to a narrowly winged petiole, often with uncinate hairs, stem-leaves narrowly linear-oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, sessile, obtuse or acutish ; racemes slender, rather distinctly flowered ; fruiting 

 pedicels very slender, much shorter than the calyx, appressed-puberulent ; calyx-lobes about 

 equal, triangular-lanceolate, about equaling the tube in fruit, hairs on the tube spreading and 

 minutely hooked at apex, those on the lobes straight and appressed ; style shorter than the nut- 

 lets, these 1 mm. long, black. 



Fields and roadsides; adventive in western Oregon, and coastal northwestern California; naturalized in 

 eastern United States; native of Europe. May-July. 



7. Myosotis stricta Link. Strict Scorpion Grass. Fig. 4188. 



Myosotis stricta Link in Roera. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 4: 104. 1819. 



Annual, stems usually branched from near the base, slender, erect or ascending, &-15 cm. 



4184 



4186 



4183. Myosotis laxa 



4184. Myosotis virginica 



4187 



4185. Myosotis sylvatica 



4186. Myosotis arvensis 



4188 



4187. Myosotis micrantha 



4188. Myosotis stricta 



