492 BORAGINACE 4 '  -‘MYOSOTIS 
LITHOSPERMUM 
bud. Stamens included, inserted on the tube of the corolla, with 
filiform filaments and obtuse anthers. Style filiform, included. 
Nutlets smooth, somewhat compressed, thin-crustaceous in tex- 
ture, attached to the flat gynobase at the very base, the scar minute. 
M. patustris Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 283. Appressed-pubescent: stems slen - 
der, soon decumbent, rooting at the lower nodes, 6-18 inches long:- leaves 
oblong to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 
1-3 inches long, the lower ones petioled, the others sessile : racemes loosely 
many-flowered: pedicels longer than the calyx: calyx-lobes triangular, 
shorter than the tube, spreading in fruit, beset with fine and short appres- 
sed hairs, none of them hooked or gland-tipped: corolla blue with yellow 
throat, 3-4 lines in diameter: nutlets somewhat angled or carinate on the 
ventral face. In wet places, western Oregon. Escaped from gardens. 
M. alpestris Schmidt Fl. Bohem. Cent iii, Nr. 225. Stems tufted, 
erect, 3-9 inches high, from a perennial root: leaves oblong, linear, or lan- 
ceolate: flowers in rather dense racemes: pedicels short, and thick, ascend- 
ing, seldom longer than the calyx: calyx almost 5-parted, hirsute with 
erect hairs, mixed near the base with some more spreading and hooked 
ones, erect in fruit: corolla blue, the flat limb 3-4 lines in diameter: nutlets 
more or less margined and carinate ventrally at the apex. In the moun- 
tains of Oregon to Kotzebue Sound and the northern Rocky Muuntains. 
M. macrosperma Engelm. Am. Jour. Sci. xlvi, 98. Roughish-hirsute 
or hispid: stem erect, 3-12 inches high from an annual or biennial root, 
simple or branched: leaves from spatulate-oblong to oblanceolate or oblong, 
obtuse, 3-12 lines long, the largest ones in the middle: racemes strictly 
erect: pedicels erect or appressed to the rachis below but spreading above, 
less than a line long: calyx unequally 5-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, acute, 
longer than the tube, sometimes the lower ones twice as long as the upper: 
corolla white, the limb 2-3 lines broad nutlets convex on the back, carinate 
and margined on the ventral face. In prairies, Brit Columbia to Oregon, 
Idaho, Texas and Florida. 
17 LITHOSPERMUM Tourn. L. Gen. n, 181. 
Annual or perennial pubescent or hairy herbs with sessile alter- 
nate leaves and small or rather large white, yellow or blue flowers 
axillary or subaxillary in leafy-bracted spikes. Calyx 5-parted 
or 5-cleft the lobes or sepals narrow. Corolla salverform or fun- 
nelform; its lobes rounded, imbricated in the bud; the throat 
pubescent or crested. Filaments short, inserted on the tube of the 
corolla. Style slender: stigma capitate, 2-lobed or sometimes 
truncate. Ovary of 4 distinct lobes. Nutlets 4 or by abortion 
fewer, ovate, usually white and smooth, erect, attached by the base 
to the flat gynobase ; the scar flat and rather small. 
L. Californicum Gray Proc. Am. Acad. x, 51. Canescently pubes- 
cent and papillose-hispid throughout: stems ascending, 4-14 inches long, 
several from the crown of a thick perennial root, very leafy, simple, or 
sparingly branched above: leaves bract-like below, gradually enlarged up- 
ward, the largest ones in the middle, linear to broadly lanceolate, or the 
upper ones not rarely ovate, sessile or nearly so 1-3 inches long: peduncles 
1-2 lines long: sepals linear, 4-8 lines long: corolla bright yellow, hardly 
an inch long, narrow-funnelform, its proper tube about equalling the calyx, 
its ample throat much longer than the very short lobes, pubescent outside, 
almost destitute of crests, the glandular ring at the base of the tube naked: 
