362 BORRAGINACE.E. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



entire leaves, and showy purplish blue flowers in corymbed or pauicled racemes, 

 the upper ones hractless. 



1. M. Virginica, DC. Smooth ; stem erect, simple ; leaves membraua- 

 ceuus, elliptical or obovate-obloug, the lower ones narrowed into a petiole ; 

 racemes corymbose ; corolla large, naked and expanding at the throat, 

 slightly lobed ; filaments longer than the anthers. River banks and along 

 streams in the upper districts. May. Stem l-2higli. Leaves 2' -3', 

 or the lowest 4' -6' long. Corolla V long. 



9. MYOSOTIS, L. FORGET-ME-NOT. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla salver-form, 5-lobed, convolute in the bud ; the tube 

 as long as the calyx, with 5 obtuse appendages in the throat. Stamens very 

 short, included. Nutlets 4, elliptical, compressed, smooth, with a minute scar 

 at the base. Low hairy herbs, with entire alternate leaves, and small white 

 or blue flowers in terminal bractless racemes. 



1. M. palustris, With. Smooth, or slightly roughened with appressed 

 scattered hairs ; stem weak, slender, creeping at the base, branching ; leaves 

 lanceolate, obtuse, the lowest spatulate ; racemes elongated in fruit ; flowers 

 distant, on widely spreading pedicels ; calyx hispid, the teeth equal and ob- 

 tuse ; corolla pale blue. Low grounds. Introduced. May. M Stem 1 

 high. Leaves 1' - H' long. 



2. M. verna, "N"utt. Hirsute ; stem erect (4'- 8' high), branching above ; 

 leaves lanceolate, sessile ; the lower ones spatulate, obtuse ; calyx longer than 

 the appressed pedicel, hispid, with the hairs near the base hooked ; the teeth 

 unequal, acute. Var. MACROSPERMA is every way larger (1-H high) ; 

 calyx with all the hairs hooked, the lower teeth twice as long as the upper 

 ones. Dry places in the upper districts ; the variety, Florida, and westward. 

 March -April. (J) Corolla white or pale blue. 



10. CYNOGLOSSTJM, Tourn. HOTTND'S-TONGUE. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form, with the throat closed with 5 obtuse 

 scales. Stamens included. Nutlets 4, spreading, fixed near the apex to the 

 base of the central column, covered all over with barbed or hooked bristles. 

 Racemes with the lower flowers commonly bracted, the upper 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 peti- 

 ole ; racemes hoary, nearly bractless ; nutlets flattened anteriorly and slightly 

 margined; corolla reddish violet. "Waste grounds. Introduced. Stem 



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, chiefly in the upper 

 districts. May -June. Stem 2 -3 high. Lowest leaves 6' -9' long. Nut- 

 lets 1 - 4. 



