3*24 BORRAGINACE.fi. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



,<mialler-flo\vered forms, among ririch high authorities rank M. caespitosn, am] 

 (>vith yet more reason) the intermediate 



Var. l;'ix:i. (M. laxa, Lehm.) Creeping base of the stem short; flowers 

 $ or smaller; pedicels longer. Wet places ; common, especially northward. 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



* * Calyx closing, or the lobes erect in fruit, clothed with spreading hairs, a part of 

 them minutely hooked or glandular at the apex. 



2. Iff. arvensis, L. Hoffm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or as- 

 cending (G'-IS' high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish ; racemes naked at tht 

 base and stalked; corolla small, blue (rarely white); pedicels spreading in fruit 

 and larger than the 5-cleJl equal calyx. (1) (g; (M. intermedia, Link. M scor- 

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

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



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

 12' high); leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulate-oblong ; mcemes 

 leafy at the base ; corolla very small and white, with a short limb ; pedia Is in 

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

 apex, rather shorter than the deejrfy 5-cleft unequal (somewhat 2-lippcd) very hispid 

 calyx. () (2) (M. inflexa, Engelm. M. stricta, ed. 1. M. arvensis, Torr. fl. 

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

 July. 



8. ECIII1VOSPERUIUUI, Swartz. STICKSEED. 



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

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

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

 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 braeted racemes. (Name compounded of c'^ii/o?, a hedgehog, and o-?rep/ia, 

 seed, from the prickly nutlets.) 



1. E. LAPPULA, Lehm. Stem upright, branched above (1- 2 high) ; the 

 shoit pedicels erect; leaves lanceolate, rough-hairy; nutlets eaeh with a double 

 row of prickles at the margins, and tuhcrcled on the back, (ij Wa^tc 

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



9. CYNOGLOSSURI, Tourn. Houxi/s-ToNGfE. 



Corolla funnel-form ; the tube about the length of the f>-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 base of tluj- 

 style, roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. Course he ;!>:-, 

 with a strong unpleasant scent, and mostly paniclcd racemes which arc naked 

 above but usually braeted at the base. Lower leaves pctioled. (Name from 

 KVV>VI a dtj, and -yXcooraa, tont/ue ; from the shape and texture of the leaves.) 



1. C. OFFICIN.XLE, L. (COMMON HOUND'S-TOXOUE.) Clothed trill, short 

 so/I hairs, ltfi/, jtanicled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile by a 

 xmuded or slightly heart-shaped base; mcemes ncarty bractless ; corolla i eddish- 



