10S COMMON CANADIAN WILD I'T.AXTS. 



* Corolla greenish-white or c'-cam colour. Nuti< 



'I if ichite. 



4. L. officinale, L. (CoMMox GROMWF.LT.. ) Much branched 

 above. Loaves broadly lanceolate, acute. Corolla < 



cafyx. Roadsides and Did fields. 



5. L. latifo'lium, Michx. Loosely branched above. Leaves 

 ovate and ovate-lanceolate, mostly taper- pointed. Corolla shorter 

 tltnn the calyx. Borders of woods. 



7. MYOSO'TIS, L. FORGET-ME-NOT. 



1. M. palustris, Withering, var. laxa, Gray. (Myosotl 

 Lehm. , in Macoun's Catalogue. ) (FoKGET-ME-NOT. ) Stem . 

 ing from a creeping base, about a foot high, smooth /'*//, 

 branched. Calyx open in fruit. Corolla pale blue, with a yellow 

 eye. Pedicels spreading. Wet places. 



2. M. arvensis, Hoffm. Stem erect or ascending, /, 

 Calyx closing in fruit. Corolla blue, rarely white. Pedicels 

 spreading in fruit and longer than the o-cleft equal calyx. 

 Racemes naked at the base. Fields. 



3. M. Vema, Nutt., differs from the last in having a very 

 fmall white corolla, pedicels erect in fruit, and the racemes leafy 

 at the base. The calyx, also, is unequally 5-toothed and hispid. 

 Dry hills. 



ORDER LXII. HYDROPHYLLA'CEJE. (WATERLEAF F.) 



Herbs, with alternate cut-toothed or lobed leaves, and regular 

 pentamerous and pentandrous flowers very much like those of 

 the last Order, but leaving a 1 -celled orary with Ilie .SYVY/X on tJi" 

 walls (parietal}. Style 2-cleft. Flowers mostly in 1 -sided cymes 

 which uncoil from the apex. The only common Genus is 



HYDROPHYI/L.UM, L. WATKRLKAJ . 



1. H. Virginlcum, L. Corolla bell-shaped, the 5 lobes con- 

 volute in the bud ; the tube with o folds down the inside, one 

 opposite each lobe. Stamens and .s-^/.V, 

 Jifdrdrd bdow. Stem xmootltixk. L":> 

 divisions, the latter ovate-lanceolate, pointed, mt-tc 



very narrow, ln'i*t?i,'-(\'iaf<.. Flowers white or pule 



