8 PENTANDR1A MONOG1NIA. 



f I AB. Dry hills. Aug. 1\. ; stem 12 feet high, leaves subtriply 

 nerved flowers in leafy racemes, white. 



90. ECHIUM. Viper's bugloss. 



E. vulgare: stem tuberculate-hispid ; leaves linear-lanceolate, his- 

 pid ; spikes lateral ; stamens longer than the corolla. 



HAB. Hill sides. May July, <?; stem 23 feet high leaves 

 very hispid spikes secund, recurved flowers blue. 



91. MYOSOTIS. Scorpion-grass. 



M. arvensis : leaves oblong-lanceolate, hairy; racemes long; pedicels 

 short, spreading when in the fruit ; calyx 5-cleft, closed ; limb of the 

 corolla erect-spreading, about as long as the tube. 



HAB. Sandy woods. June, <v) ; plant gray, simple or branched, 

 4 8 in. high flower small, white. 



92. LYCOPSIS. Small bugloss. 



L. arvensis . leaves lanceolate, semi-amplexicaul, repand-denticulate, 



very hispid ; racemes leafy ; calyx erect. 

 HAB. Sandy fields. July, <v) ; very hispid flowers blue seeds 



reticulate. 



93. CYNOGLOSSUM. Hound's tongue. 



C. qfficinale: leaves broad-lanceolate, attenuate at the base, sessile, 



downy ; stamens included. 

 HAB. Road sides. June July, cf; dull green, 1J 2 feet high 



flower panic., purple-red seeds rough . 



94. ROCHELIA. 



K. lappula : stem branched above ; leaves lanceolate, with incumbent 



hairs ; corolla longer than the calyx ; border erect-spreading ; seeds 



with 2 rows of hooked prickles on the margin. 

 HAB. Road sides, &c. July Aug. ; stem panic, above, 1 foot 



high flowers minute, blue. 

 R. virginiana : leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous above ; 



racemes divaricate ; flowers nodding when in fruit; fruit densely 



covered with hooked prickles. 

 HAB. Rocky hills. July, $ ; stem 2 feet high, hairy leaves large 



flower very small, white. 



95. ANAGALLIS. Pimpernel. 



A. arvensis : stem procumbent ; leaves ovate, sessile, dotted beneath ; 



segments of the rorolla dilated, crenate-glandular. 

 HAB. Sandy fields, &c. June July, ; stem yuadrang. leavt* 



oppositeflower solitary, axillary, scarlet. 



