3 S )4 BORRAGINACE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



smaller-flowered forms, among >vhieh high authorities rank M. cajspitosa, and 

 (vvith yet more reason) the intermediate 



Var. Ifasrs. (M. laxa, Lelim.) Creeping base of the stem short; flowers 

 \ or ^ smaller; pedicels longer. — Wet places ; common, especially northward. 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



* * Calyx closing, or the lobes erect in fruit, clothed icith spreading hairs, a part of 

 them minutely hooked or glandular at the apex. 



2. I?I. arvelJSis, L. Hoffm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or as- 

 cending (6'- 15' high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish ; racemes naked at the 

 base cuid stalked; corolla small, blue (rarely white); pedicels spreading in fruit 

 and larger than the 5-cleft equal calyx. (?) (g (M. intermedia, Link. M scor- 

 pioides, var. arvensis, L.)— Fields, &c. ; not very common. (Indigenous?) 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



3. M. vcrna, Nutt. Bristly-hirsute, branched from the base, erect (4'- 

 12' high); leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulate-oblong ; racemes 

 leafy at the base; corolla very small and white, with a short limb; pedicels in 

 fruit erect and oppressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outwards near the 

 apex, rather shorter than the deeply 5-cleft unequal (somewhat 2-lipped) very hispid 

 calyx. ® © (M. inflexa, Evgelm. M. stricta, ed. 1. M. arvensis, Torr.fi. 

 _2V. Y.) — Dry hills, &c, Massachusetts to Wisconsin and southward. May- 

 July. 



8. ECHINOSPEBMUM, Swartz. Stickseed. 



Corolla salver-form, short, nearly as in Myosotis, but imbricated in the bud ; 

 the throat closed with 5 short scales. Stamens included. Nutlets erect, fixed 

 laterally to the base of the style or central column, triangular or compressed, 

 the back armed with 1-3 marginal rows of prickles which are barbed at the 

 apex, otherwise naked. — Rough-hairy and grayish herbs, with small blue flow- 

 ers in bractcd racemes. (Name compounded of ex' lvos > a hedgehog, and aneppa, 

 seed, from the prickly nutlets.) 



1. E. LAppula, Lehm. Stem upright, branched above (l°-2° high) ; the 

 short pedicels erect ; leaves lanceolate, rough-hairy ; nutlets each with a double 

 row of prickles at the margins, and tubercled on the back. © g —Waste 

 places; common. July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



9. CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. Hound's-Tongub. 



Corolla funnel-form ; the tube about the length of the 5-parted calyx ; the 

 throat closed with 5 obtuse scales; the lobes rounded. Stamens included 

 Nutlets depressed or convex, oblique, fixed near the apex to the base of the 

 style, roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. — Coarse herbs, 

 with a strong unpleasant scent, and mostly panieled racemes which are naked 

 above but usually bracted at the base. Lower leaves petioled. (Name from 

 Kvav, a dog, and -yX<Wa, tongue; from the shape and texture of the leaves.) 



1. C. officinale, L. (Common Hodnd's-Tongue.) Clotlied with short 

 soft hairs, leafy, panieled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile by a 

 rounded or slightly heart-shaped base ; racemes nearly bractless ; corolla reddish- 



