684 



BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



rough-pubescent, 



oblong-lanceolate 



or 



linear-oblong 

 lobes much shorter than its tube; limb of corolla .' 

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

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

 southw. May-Sept. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 868. 

 2. M. laxa Lehm. Perennial from filiform 

 subterranean shoots ; .stems very slejider, decum- 

 bent ; pubescence all appressed ; leaves lance- 

 olate-oblong or somewhat spatulate ; calyx-lobes 

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



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



southw. May-Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 864. 



calyx- 

 -8 mm. 



863. M. scorf)ioides. 



;i\u. 



* * Calyx closing or the lobes erect in fruity clothed ivith spreading hairs, some 

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



■*- Calyx about equally o-cleft. 



++ Pedicels in fruit longer than the calyx. 



3. M. arvensis (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. \'a. June- 



865. M. arvensis. 



Aug. 



(Eu.) Fig. 865. 



4. M. 



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



VERSICOLOR (Pers.) Sm. Slender, 1-8 dm. high, mostly simple at 

 base, often branched above; stems and leaves 

 uniformly pubescent with ascending straightish 

 hairs; upper leaves so7ne what pointed ; racemes 

 loose, mostly naked at base ; pedicels apjyressed- 

 pubescent; corolla pale yellow, changing to 

 blue, then to violet, the tube exceeding the 

 calyx ; style distinctly lonqer than the nutlets. — 

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

 from Eu.) Fig. 866. 



5. M. MicRAXTHA 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 loioer axils ; pedicels 

 very short, mostly I'n'th 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. 



860. M. versicolor. 



M- -t- Calyx somewhat 2-lipped, uneqii ally and deeply 5-cleft. 



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

 the base, erect, 0.5-4 dm. high; loaves 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, 8-5 mm. long. (3/. verna 

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

 westw. and southw. Apr.-.Iuly. Fig. 868. Passing westw. 

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

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

 and nutlets. 



SC^. M. virgin ica. 



