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1. M. laxa, Lehm. Smooth, or slightly roughened with appressed scat- 
tered hairs; stem weak, slender, creeping at the base, branching; leaves lance- 
olate, obtuse, the lowest spatulate ; racemes elongated in fruit; flowers distant, 
on widely spreading pedicels ; calyx hispid with straight hairs, the teeth equal 
and obtuse; corolla pale blue. — Low grounds, Florida to Mississippi, and 
northward. May. (1)— Stem 1° high. Leaves 1/- 1]! long. 
2. M. verna, Nutt. Hirsute with rigid spreading hairs; stem erect (4' - 8 
high), branching above; leaves lanceolate, sessile; the lower ones spatulate, ob- 
tuse; calyx longer than the appressed pedicel, hispid, with the hairs near the 
base hooked; the teeth unequal, acute. — Var. MACROSPERMA is every way 
larger (19-139 high); calyx with all the hairs hooked, the lower teeth twice as 
long as the upper ones, — Dry places in the upper districts, and northward; 
the variety, Florida, and westward. March and April (3) — Corolla white or 
. pale blue, 
ll. CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. Hovxp's-Toxcvur. 
Calyx’ 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form, with the throat closed with 5 obtuse 
Seales. Stamens included. Nutlets 4, fixed near the apex to the base of the 
style, covered all over with barbed or hooked bristles. — Racemes with the lower 
flowers commonly bracted, the upper ones bractless. 
1. C. officinale, L. Villous; stem leafy, branched above; leaves lanceo- 
late or oblong, acute; the upper sessile, the lowest tapering into a long petiole ; 
racemes hoary, nearly bractless; nutlets flattened anteriorly and slightly mar- 
gined ; corolla reddish-violet.— Waste grounds, North Carolina, and northward. 
` Introduced. — Stem 1}°- 2° high. 
2. C. Virginicum, L. Hispid; stem simple, stout, naked above; leaves 
oval or oblong ; the lowest petioled, the upper auriculate and clasping ; racemes 
single or corymbose, bractless ; pedicels slender, recurved in fruit; nutlets 
rounded anteriorly; corolla pale blue. — Dry soil, Florida to Mississippi, and 
northward. May and June.— Stem 2°-3° high. Lowest leaves 6/- 9! long. 
Nutlets 1 — 4. : 
3. C. Morisoni, DC. Hairy; stem erect, rather slender, widely branched ; 
leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute; the lowest tapering into a petiole; racemes 
humerous, slender, villous, bracted ; pedicels short, recurved in fruit; corolla 
Small, about as long as the calyx, white or pale blue. (Myosotis Virginiana, 
Pursh.) — Dry woods in the upper districts of South Carolina and northward. 
June and July. — Stem 29 - 3° high. 
Order 96. HYDROPHYLLACEJE. (WATERLEAF 
Famivy.) ue 
_ Herbs, with alternate or (the lowest) opposite palmately or p m 
l leaves, and regular flowers, either solitary in the axils, 
| Lido recurved spikes or racemes. — Calyx 5-parted, persi 
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