S4 FENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



78. MYOSOTIS. Nntt. Gen. 169. 



[Gr. M'js, myos, a mouse, and Oiis, otos, an ear; from a fancied resemblance in its leave*.] 



Cal. 5 cleft. Cos. Salver-fonr, tube short; borJei 51obedj emarginate; orifice closed with 5 convex scales," 



M. PALUSTRis. Ph. Seeds smooth; leaves elliptic-lanceolate; racemes without bractes. 

 Sfynon. M. scorpioides. Willd. Muhl. &c. Vuigo — Marsh Scorpion-grass. 



Fl. Last of May till October. Fr- mat. August, and after. 



ilab. Sprin.ss, swamps, rivulets, &c. common. 6 to 24 inches high: flowers sky blue. 



Obs. Perennial; the radical leaves continuing vigorously green through the winter,— especially about 

 swampy springs. Some of the seeds ripen long before it has done flowering. 



5M. viRGirriAN-A.Pft. Hairy; seeds barb-prickled; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; racemes divaricate. 



Ft(/go— Virginian Scorpion-grass. 



n. Middle of July, and after. Fr. mat. Beginning of October. 



jllah. Woodlands, and fence-rows: common. 2 to 4 feet high: flowers bluish white. 



Obs. Tills obnoxious weed is well known to our farmers, in consequence of its racemes of bur like 

 seeds entangling and matiing themaaes of their horses, and fleeces of their sheep. 



1 1 Seeds covered. 



ITO. HYDROPHYLLUM. Nutt. Gen. 178. 

 [Gr. Hydor, hydros, water, and Phyllon, leaf; the cavities of the leaves holding water. De Theis— or, ac- 

 cordmg to Botrhaave, '' Hydor, aqua, et Fkilos, amicus; quia ad aquub ciescere amat." 



Cal. 5 parted. Cor. campanulate, 5 cleft; 5 longitudinal grooves within. Caps. 1 celled, 2 valved. 



H. viiiGuncvM. Ph. Smoothish; leaves pinnatifid, and pinnate; segments oval-lanceolate, incised-serrata 



Vulgo — Virginian V»''ater-leaf. 



Fl. Middle of May. Fr. mat Middle of June. 



Hub. Brandywine: John Taylor's: Wistar's bridge: frequent. About 1 foot high; flowers white, or purplish. 



SO. ANAGALLIS. laitt. Gen. 183. 

 [Gr. Anagelao, to laugh; from its supposed exhilarating virtues.] 



Cal 5 cleft. Cors. rotate, 5 lobed. Filaments hirsute. Caps, g-lobular, circumscLssed, many seeded. 



A. AEVENSis. Sm. Fl. Brit. Stem procumbent, 4 angied; leaves opposite, ovate, entire, dotted beneath. 



VvJgo — Red Ciackweed. Scarlet Pimpernel. 



FL Liitter end of June till September. Fr. mat. Beginntng of August, and after. 



Tiab. Field^, and roadsides; Wilmington roaa, frequent. 4 to 12 inches long: flowers orange-scarlet. 



Obs. This noted little foreigner is becoming naturalized in this vicinity. A few years ago, it was not to 

 be seen nearer than about the Deluware state line, towards Wilmington; but ithas been gradually and stead- 

 ily working its way up country, and is now frequently to be met with around the Borough. The idle sto- 

 ries concerning its etlicacy in curing Ilydrcphobia, though occasionally revived by ignorant or designing 

 Empirics, are now pretty correctly appreciated by the public.^ About twenty years since, the pretended 

 remedy was disclosed to the Ijegiblatirre of thi*; State, by way of special favor, as though it were a great se- 

 cmt, and a nf.f and importr nt discovery: yet Boerhaaoe in his Historia Plaiitarum, publislred as long- ago 

 as 1731, says ■*• morsiu canis rahidi subvenire anonnullis dicitur." 



81. LYSIMACHIA. Nutt. Gen. 1S7. 

 [Said to be so named after Lysimachus, a King of Sicily. Literally Loose-strife. See Be Thcis.^ 



Cal. 5 cleft. Cor. rotate, 5 cleft. Cats- globular, mucronate, 5 or 10 valved, few or many seeded. 

 L. "QTrADRiFOLiA. Fh. Leavcs subsessilc, in 4's and o's; peduncles in 4's; corolla-segments oval, entire. 

 Synon. L. hirsuta. Mx. Ftt/g-o— Loose-strife. 



JF7. Be:,inningof June, and after. Fr. mat. 



Ilab. y/oodlands, and low grounds: common: 1 to 2 feet high: flowers yellow; 



Obs. Some Empirics highly recomniend the infusion of this plant in Hcsniorrhoids, or piles; but its virtvre)S> 

 if ar.y, are unknown to me. 



L. ciLiATA. Ph. Leaves petiolata. opposite; petioles ciliate; corolla-segments acuminate, creliate. 



Fl. Latter end of June. Fr. mat. 



Kiib. Sr>rder5 of wocdlanus and tiuckete; Bath: freqiieat. 2 to Sleet ]:i^h: flowers yellow. 



