S64 BORRAGiNACE^. (bORAGE FAMILY.; 



* Corolla trumpet-shaped, with spreading nearhj entire Jnnh and naked throat; 

 filaments slender, exserted ; hypogynous disk 2-lobed. 



1. M. Virginica, DC. (Virginian Cowslip. Lungwort. Biae Bells.) 



Verv smootli, pale, erect (1-2° high) ; leaves obovate, veiny, those at the root 

 (4-6' long) petioled ; corolla trumpet-shaped, 1' long, many times exceeding 

 the calyx, rich purple-blue, rarely white; nutlets dull and roughish. — Allu- 

 vial banks, N. Y. to Minn., S. C , and Ark. May. Cultivated for ornament. 



* * Corolla with conspicuously b-lohed limb, and crested throat. 



-)- Filaments broad and short ; nutlets dull, wrinkled or roughish when dry. 



2 M. panicul^ta, Don. Roughish and more or less hairy, erect (1 -2° 

 high), looselv branched , leaves ovate and orate-hinceolate, taper-pointed, ribbed, 

 thin; corolla (6" long) somewhat funnel-form, 3-4 times the length of the 

 lance-linear acute divisions of the calyx , filaments broader and shorter than the 

 anthers. — Shore of L. Superior and north and westward. July and Aug 



3. M. lanceolata, DC. Glabrous or hirsute, pale, 1° high or less, sim- 

 ple or branched , leaves spatulate-oblong to lanceolate-linear, smaller (1 -2' long), 

 nearly veinless, obtuse or acute ; corolla-tube somewhat longer than the lan- 

 ceolate calyx-lobes; filaments generally longer than the anthers. — The Dakotas 

 to N. Mex. and westward. 



H- -(- Filaments longer and narroiver than the anthers; nutlets shining, utricular. 



4. M. maritima, Don. (Sea Lungwort.) Spreading or decumbent, 

 smooth, glaucous ; leaves fleshy, ovate or obovate or s])atulate, the upper sur- 

 face becoming papillose; corolla white, bell-funnel-form (3" long), twice the 

 length of the calyx. — Sea-coast, on rocks and sand, Cape Cod to Maine and 

 northward; scarce. June -Aug. 



6. MYOSOTIS, Dill. Scorpion-grass. Forget-me-not. 



Corolla salver-form, the tube about the length of the 5-toothed or .5-cleft 

 calyx, the throat with 5 small and blunt arching appendages opposite the 

 rounded lobes ; the latter convolute in the bud ! Stamens included, on very 

 short filaments. Nutlets smooth, compressed, fixed at the base ; the scar mi- 

 nute. — Low and mostly soft-hairy herbs, with entire leaves, those of the stem 

 sessile, and with small flowers in naked racemes, which are entirely bractless, 

 or occasionally with one or two small leaves next the base, prolonged and 

 straightened in fruit. Flowering through the season. (Name composed of 

 (ivs, mouse, and ots, wtJs, ear, in allusion to the aspect of the short and soft 

 leaves in some species; one popular name is Mouse-ear.) 



* Calyx open in fruit, its hairs appressed, none of them hooked or glandular. 



M. palustris. Withering. (True Forget-me-not.) Perennial ; stems 

 ascending from an oldique creeping base (9-20' high), loosely branched, 

 smoothish ; leaves rough-pubescent, oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong; calyx- 

 lolies much shorter than its tube ; limb of corolla 3 or 4 lines broad, sky-blue 

 with a yellow eye. — In wet ground, probably only escaped from cultivation. 

 (Nat. from Eu.) 



1. M. laxa, Lehm. Perennial from filiform subterranean shoots; stems 

 very slender, decumbent ; pubescence all appressed ; leaves lanceolate-oblong 



