364 BORRAGINACEiE. (bORAGE FAMILY.) 



* Corolla trumpet-shaped', with spreading nearlij entire limb and naked throat; 

 Jilaments slender, exserted ; hi/pogynous disk 2-lohed. 



1. M. Virginica, DC. (Virginian Cowslip. Lungwort. Blue Bells.) 



Very smooth, pale, erect (1-2° high) ; leaves obovate, veiny, those at the root 

 (4-6' long) petioled; corolla trumpet-shaped, T long, many times exceeding 

 the calyx, rich purple-blue, rarely white ; nutlets dull and roughish. — Allu- 

 vial banks, N. Y. to Minn., S. C , and Ark. May. Cultivated for ornament. 

 * * Corolla with conspicuously 5-lobed limb, and crested throat. 



-t- Filaments broad and short ; nutlets dull, wrinkled or roughish when dry. 



2 M. panicul^ta, Don. Roughish and more or less hairy, erect (1-2° 

 high), loosely branched , leaves ocate and orate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, ribbed, 

 thin; corolla (6" long) somewhat funnel-form, 3-4 times the length of the 

 lance-linear acute divisions of the calyx , filaments broader and shorter than the 

 anthers. — Shore of L. Superior and north and westward. July and Aug 



3. M. lanceolata, DC. Glabrous or hirsute, pale, 1° high or less, sim- 

 ple or branched , leaves spatulate-oblong to lanceolate-linear, smaller (1 -2' long), 

 nearly veinless, obtuse or acute ; corolla-tube somewhat longer than the lan- 

 ceolate calyx-lobes; Jilaments generally longer than the anthers. — Dak. to N. 

 Mex. and westward. 



H- 4- Filaments lonrjer and narrower than the anthers ; nutlets shining, utricular. 



4. M. maritima, Don. (Sea Lungwort.) Spreading or decumbent, 

 smooth, glaucous ; leaves fleshy, ovate or obovate or spatulate, the upper sur- 

 face becoming papillose; corolla white, bell-funnel-form (3" long), twice the 

 length of the calyx. — Sea-coast, on rocks and sand, Cape Cod to Maine and 

 northward; scarce. June -Aug. 



6. MYOSOTIS, Dill. Scorpion-grass. Forget-me-not. 



Corolla salver-form, the tube about the length of the 5-toothed or .5-cleft 

 calyx, the throat with 5 small and blunt arching appendages opposite the 

 founded lobes ; the latter convolute in the bud ! Stamens included, on very 

 short filaments. Nutlets smooth, compressed, fixed at the base ; the scar mi- 

 nute. — Low and mostly soft-hairy herbs, with entire leaves, those of the stem 

 sessile, and with small flowers in naked racemes, which are entirely bractless, 

 or occasionally Avith one or two small leaves next the base, prolonged and 

 straightened in fruit. Flowering through the season. (Xame composed of 

 fivs, mouse, and ovs, wtos, ear, in allusion to the aspect of the short and soft 

 leaves in some species; one popular name is Mouse-ear.) 



* Calyx open in fruit, its hairs appressed, none of them hoolced or glandular. 



M. PALUSTRis, Withering. (True Forget-me-not.) Perennial; stems 

 ascending from an oblique creeping base (9-20' high), loosely branched, 

 smoothish ; leaves rough-pubescent, oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong; calyx- 

 lobes much shorter than its tube ; limb of corolla 3 or 4 lines broad, sky-blue 

 with a vellow eve. — In wet ground, probably only escaped from cultivation. 

 (Nat. from Eu.) 



1. M. laxa, Lehm. Perennial from filiform subterranean shoots; stems 

 very slender, decumbent ; pubescence all appressed ; leaves lanceolate-oblong 



