684 



BORAG1NACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



4. 



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

 lobes much shorter than its tube ; limb of corolla 5-8 mm. 

 broad, sky-blue, with a yellow eye. ( M. palustris 

 Hill.) In wet ground, Nfd. to w. N. Y., and 

 southw. May-Sept. (Nat. from Eu.) FIG. 803. 



2. M. laxa Lehm. Perennial from filiform 

 subterranean shoots ; stems very slender, decum- 

 bent ; pubescence all appressed ; leaves lance- 



863. M. scorpioides. olate-oblong or somewhat spatulate ; calyx-lobes 

 as long as the tube ; limb of corolla rarely 5 nun. 

 broad, paler blue. In water and wet ground, Nfd. to Ont., and 

 southw. May-Aug. (Eu.) FIG. 864. 864 M } ^ 



* * Calyx closing or the lobes erect in fruit, clothed with spreading hairs, some 

 minutely hooked or gland-tipped; corolla small; annual or biennial. 



- Calyx about equally &-cleft. 

 ++ Pedicels in fruit longer than the calyx. 



3. M. arv6nsis (L.) Hill. Hirsute with spreading hairs, 

 erect or ascending, 1-4.5 dm. high ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acutish ; racemes naked at the base and stalked; corolla blue, 

 rarely white. Fields, etc., Nfd. to Minn, and W. Va. June- 



865. M. arvensis. Aug. (Eu.) FlG. 865. 



w -V+ Pedicels shorter than the calyx, the latter about 4 mm. long. 

 M. VERB/COLOR (Pers.) Sm. Slender, 1-3 dm. high, mostly simple at 

 base, often branched above ; stems and leaves 

 uniformly pubescent with ascending straightish 

 hairs ; upper leaves somewhat pointed ; racemes 

 loose, mostly naked at base ; pedicels appressed- 

 pubescent; corolla pale yellow, changing to 

 blue, then to violet, the tube exceeding the 

 calyx ; style distinctly longer than the nutlets. 

 Fields, "N. Y.," and Del. May-July. (Nat. 

 from Eu.) FIG. 866. 



5. M. MICRANTHA Pallas. Stems 0.5-2 dm. 

 high, branching from the base, with the oblong 

 or lanceolate blunt leaves pubescent with mixed 

 straight and divergent hooked hairs; scattered 

 flowers produced from the lower axils ; pedicels 

 very short, mostly with some divergent hooked 

 hairs; corolla blue, the tube barely equaling 

 the calyx ; style rarely equaling the nutlets. 

 (M. collina Am. auth., not Hoffm.) Road- 

 sides, old fields, etc., Mass, to Ont. and O. 

 May-Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) FIG. 867. 



- H- Calyx somewhat 2-lipped, unequally and deeply b-clcft. 



867. M. micrantha. 6. M. virginica (L.) BSP. Bristly-hirsute, branched from 

 the base, erect, 0.5-4 dm. high ; leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, 

 or the lower spatulate-oblong ; racemes leafy at the base ; 

 corolla very small, white, with a short limb; pedicels in fruit 

 erect and appressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outward 

 near the apex; calyx very hispid, 3-5 mm. long. (M. verna 

 Nutt.) Dry banks and rocky woods, Me. to Ont. and Minn., 

 westw. and southw. AprJuly. FIG. 868. Passing westw. 8(K NI 

 and southw. to the larger formal var. MACROSPRMA (Engelm.) 

 Fernald (M. macrosperma Engelm.), with looser inflorescence and larger calyx 

 and nutlets. 



866. M. versioolor. 



