324 BORRAGINACEJE. (iJORAOE FAMILY.) 



r-flowered forms, among >vhieh high authorities rank M. ercspitosr. ud 

 A'ifh yrt more reason) tin- intermediate 



Var. Irfxa. (M. laxa, Ishm.) Creeping l.aso of tin- stem sliort; flowers 

 ' ->! \ smaller; pedicels longer. Wet places; common, especially northward. 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



" * Cali/.r closing, or lite, kibes erect in fruit, clothed trill) spread in<j hairs, a part of 

 than in twitch/ Jiuokfd or tjlandnlur a! tin a/x-r. 



2. ITI. nrvrllSis, L. Hoffm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or as- 

 cending (6'- 15' high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish ; rwuiitx naked at l/te 

 tiise and stalked; corolla small, blue (rarely white); pedicels spnadin;/ in fruit 

 W lanjer titan the 5-cleft equal calyx. CO(y- : (M- intermedia, Link. M. scor- 

 pioides, var. arvensis, L.) Fields, &c. ; not very common. (Indigenous?) 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



3. M. venia, Nutt. Bristly-hirsute, branched from the base, erect (4' - 

 12' high); leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulate-oblong ; r(ir,-ni,s 

 le<ify at the base; corolla very small and white, with a short limb; ;>//Vv/,s in 

 fruit erect and appressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outwards near the 

 apex, rather shorter than the deeply 5-cleft uneijiidf (somewhat 2-lippcd) very his]M'd 

 calyx. (D @ (M. inflcxa, Engelm. M. stricta, cd. 1. M. arvensis, Torr.fi. 

 N.Y.) Dry hills, &c., Massachusetts to Wisconsin and southward. May- 

 July. 



8. ECmNOSPERMUUI, Swartz. STICKSEED. 



Corolla salver-form, short, nearly as in Myosotis, but imbricated in the luid ; 

 the throat closed with 5 short scales. Stamens included. Nutlets erect, fixed 

 laterally to the base of the style or central column, triangular or compressed, 

 the back armed with 1-3 marginal rows of prickles which are barbed at the 

 apex, otherwise naked. Rough-hairy and grayish herbs, with small blue flow- 

 ers in bracted racemes. (Name compounded of e'^tvo?, a //a/<yJa*/;und cnrep^a^ 

 seed, from the prickly nutlets.) 



1. E. LAppui.A, Lehm. Stem uprig] it, branched above (1- 2 high) ; the 

 short pedicels erect; leaves lanceolate, rough -hairy; nutlets each with a double 

 row of prickles at the margins, and tubercled on the back. Qj l^, Waste 

 places; common. July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



9. CYNOGL.OSSIJITI, Tourn. HOUND'S-TONGUE. 



Corolla funnel-form; the tube about the length of the 5-parted calyx; the 

 throat closed with 5 obtuse, scales; the lobes rounded. Stamens included, 

 Nutlets depressed or convex, oblique, fixed near the apex to the btise of tlia 

 style, roughened all OA'er with short barbed or hooked prickles. Coarse herbs, 

 with a strong unpleasant scent, and mostly panieled racemes which are naked 

 above but usually bracted at the base. Lower leaves petioled. (Name from 

 *W, a do</, and yXoxrcru, 1<wjnc ; from tin-, shape and texture of the le;ive.) 



1. C. ornciN \ I.K, L. (COMMON HOUND'S-TONGUE.) Clutlu-d tritli s!mrt 

 soft hairx, lififij, panieled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile by a 

 rounded or slightly heart-shaped base; racemes nearly bractless ; firolln reddish- 



