316 BORAGINACEAE 



1. M. versicolor Sm. English Scorpion-gkass. Annual ; stem erect, 7 to 15 

 inches high ; herbage pilose ; leaf -blades oblong to linear, sessile, V2 to 1^/4 inches 

 long, the basal in a rosette; calyx-tube with uncinate hairs, the lanceolate lobes 

 puberulent, about as long as the tube ; pedicels shorter than fruiting calyx ; corolla 

 at first yellowish, then blue, minute, ^^ to 1 line broad ; fruiting pedicels shorter 

 than the calyces. 



Marshes or moist meadows, 5 to 3500 feet, sparingly naturalized from Europe : 

 Humboldt, Trinity and Sonoma Cos. ; Plumas Co. May-July. 



Loca. — Willow Creek, n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 15,298; Lawrence Creek, n. Humboldt Co., 

 Traci/ 14,809 ; Eureka, Tra^.v 827, in 1900; Fields Landing, Humboldt Bay, Jfpjjom 17,917; Hydes- 

 ville, cent. Humboldt Co., Tracy 6963; Cape Eidge, near Cape Mendocino, Tracy 14,891; Dyer- 

 ville, South Fork Eel Eiver, Constance 803; Fort Seward, e. Humboldt Co., Tracy 13,847; Salyer, 

 Trinity Co., Tracy 8020; Pitkin Marsh, Vine Hill region, Sonoma Co., Robbins 198; betw. Quincy 

 and Lake Almanor, Plumas Co., Keclc 1670. 



Kefs. — Myosotis versicolor Sm., English Bot. 36:2558 (1814). M. arvensis var. versicolor 

 Pars., Synop. PI. 1:156 (1805), type European. 



2. M. sylvatica Hoffm. Wood Forget-me-not. Stems leafy, somewhat 

 branched above, 1 to 1^ feet high, decumbent at base, usually several from a peren- 

 nial rootstock ; herbage hirsute, the stem with spreading hairs ; leaf -blades broadly 

 oblong-spatulate to oblong, entire, 1 to 4 inches long, the basal and lower eauline 

 petioled, the upper sessile; pedicels shorter than (rarely equaling) fruiting calyx; 

 calyx-tube with uncinate hairs, its lobes lanceolate, puberulent, equaling or longer 

 than the tube; corolla light blue, 2i^ to 3 lines broad. 



European garden plant, sparingly naturalized in moist shaded valleys, 10 to 

 500 feet : San Francisco Bay region ; Humboldt Co. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Mt. Davidson, San Francisco, Jepson 10,358; San Anselmo, Marin Co., Chandler 290; 

 Mill Valley, Marin Co., Jepson 7452; Berkeley, Chandler; Dyerville, South Fork Eel Eiver, Jep- 

 son 16,685. 



Eefs. — Myosotis sylvatica Hoffm., Deutscb. Fl. 61 (1791), type European; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 441 (1901), Man. 842 (1925). 



3. M. laxa Lehm. Perennial, the stems very erect, 9 to 12 inches high ; herb- 

 age strigulose ; leaf -blades linear-oblong, % to 1 inch long, sessile or the basal shortly 

 petioled; raceme very loose, the pedicels about equaling fruiting calyces; calyx 

 thinly strigulose, its lobes equaling or slightly shorter than the tube ; corolla blue, 

 1^ to 2 lines broad. 



Wet ground, 10 to 500 feet : Del Norte Co. North to British Columbia, thence 

 east to New York and Newfoundland. July. 



Loc. — Lake Talawa, Tracy 16,365 (first definite record for California). 



Eefs. — Myosotis laxa Lehm., Asperif. 83 (1818), "habitat in America septentrionali" ; 

 Britton, HI. Fl. 3:85 (1913). 



Myosotis scoepioides L., Sp. PI. 131 (1753), type European. M. palustris Lam., Fl. Fr. 

 2:283 (1778), type European; Jepson, Man. 842 (1925). True Forget-me-not. Stem erect from 

 a perennial rootstock, 11 to 15 inches high; herbage thinly strigulose; leaves oblong, mostly ses- 

 sile; calyx strigulose, the hairs not uncinate, its lobes triangular, shorter than the calj-x-tube; 

 corolla blue with a yellow eye, (1% or) 2% to 4 lines broad; fruiting pedicels equaling or longer 

 than the calyces. — Native of Europe, an escape from gardens : Quincy, Plumas Co., Heller 10,861, 

 in 1913; Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, Ottley 1190, in 1920. June-July. 



Myosotis virginica B. S. P., Prelim. Cat. Anthophyta and Pteridophyta New York City, 37 

 (1888). Lycopsis virginica L., Sp. PI. 139 (1753), type from Va. Spring Scorpion Grass. An- 

 nual or biennial; stem erect, 5 to 10 inches high; herbage spreading-hirsute; leaf -blades oblance- 

 olate, % to IVi inches long, sessile or the lower drawn down to a broad petiole; calyx densely 

 hispid, cleft nearly half-way into unequal lobes; calyx-tube hispid-uncinate ; corolla white, % line 

 broad ; fruiting calyx spreading or nodding. — Native of se. United States, in California adventive 

 in valley grain fields, 500 to 600 feet: Trinity Co. (Salyer, Tracy 8025) ; Humboldt Co. (WiUow 

 Creek, Tracy 15,297). 



Symphytum L. Coarse perennial herbs with entire leaves. Flowers in a cy- 

 mose cluster, the two forks of the cyme consisting of scorpioid racemes which are 



