I go BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



CC. Basal leaves linear to spatulate; calyx cleft to the middle or very little below 

 it. U. P. shastensis 



BB. Stem branching from the base. 



D. Calyx cleft to below the middle, persistent; nutlets somewhat cross-shaped. 



W. E. P. tenellus 



DD. Calyx cleft only to the middle, soon deciduous by separating near its base; 



nutlets ovate. 



E. Plant 1-2.5 cm. high, white-hairy; nutlets 3 mm. long. W. C. P. canescens 

 EE. Plant 2.5-5 cm. high, hairy but not white-hairy; nutlets 2 mm. long. W. C. 



P. nothofulvus 

 AA. Plant hispid. 



F. Nutlets with transverse wrinkles; branches hispid but stem not so. (See D.) 

 FF. Nutlets without transverse wrinkles; branches and stem both hispid. E. 



P. hispidus 



OREOCARYA 



Flowers white or yellow, in headlike or panicled racemes. Corolla with 

 10 scales or glands at base within ; throat with prominent folds within. 

 (Gk. oros = a mountain, karyon = a nut ; probably referring to the habitat.) 



A. Corolla tube exceeding the calyx. E. O. leucophaea 



AA. Corolla tube not exceeding the calyx. 

 B. Plant thinly stiff-hairy; inflorescence not tawny-hairy; leaves obtuse. E. 



O. sericea 



BB. Plant densely stiff-hairy; inflorescence not tawny-hairy. 



C. Leaves obtuse; inflorescence very dense. E. O. celosioides 



CC. Leaves acute, inflorescence not very dense. E. O. spiculifera 



AMSINCKIA (FIDDLE NECK) 



Coarse, hispid. Leaves oblong to linear. Flowers in racemes or spikes. 

 Calyx persistent. Corolla salverform to funnelform; throat naked or with 

 minute hairy tufts opposite the lobes. Nutlets 3-angled. (Honor of 

 W. Amsinck, a German, who materially aided the Hamburg Botanical 

 Garden.) 



A. Nutlets roughened with short hard points, convex or keeled on the back. 

 B. Calyx lobes linear; plant erect. W. E. A. Intermedia 



BB. Calyx lobes lanceolate or ovate; plant spreading. W. E. A. lycopsoides 



AA. Nutlets not roughened with points, the projections rounded and smooth, nearly 

 flat on the back, not keeled. E. . A. tessellata 



MYOSOTIS (FORGET-ME-NOT) 



Flowers in racemes or spikes. Corolla salverform to rotate; throat with 

 small blunt crests at the base of the lobes. Stamens included. Nutlets 

 smooth ; scar minute. (Gk. myos = of a mouse, otos = of an ear ; hence 

 mouse-ear like, referring to the short soft leaves.) 



A. Corolla blue; calyx open in fruit; calyx hairs appressed, none of them hooked nor 



gland-tipped. 

 B. Calyx lobes much shorter than the calyx tube. W. 



M. scorpioides (GARDEN FORGET-ME-NOT) 



BB. Calyx lobes as long as calyx tube. W. E. M. laxa (BLUE FORGET-ME-NOT) 



AA. Corolla white; calyx closing on fruit; calyx hairs spreading, some of them minutely 



hooked or gland-tipped. W. E. M. macrosperma (WHITE FORGET-ME-NOT) 



