BORRAGINACE^. (bOHAGE FAr.IILY.) 3Go 



Emoothish ; leaves rough-pubescent, obloTig-Ianccolate or linear-oblong; culvx 

 moderately 5-clcft, shorter than the spreading pedicels ; corolla (rather large in 

 the genuine phint) pale blue with a yellow eye. —Nat. from Eu. near Boston, 

 escaping from gardens. — Varies into smaller-Howered forms, among which higli 

 authorities rank M. caispitosa, and (with yet more i-eason) the intermediate 



Var. laxa. (M. laxa, Lehm.) Creeping base of the stem short; flowers a 

 third or half smaller ; pedicels longer. — Wet places, northward. (En.) 

 * * Calijr. closiny or the lobes erect in fruit, clothed with sprcadim/ hnirs, a />rni of 



t/icin 1 1, i I add y hooked or glandular at the apex : corolla small: root animal or 



biennial. 



2. M. arvensis, Iloffm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or ascend- 

 ing (6'- 15' high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish ; racemes naked at the base 

 and stalked; corolla blue, rarely white ; pedicels spreading in fruit and longer than 

 the b-clejl equal calyx. (M. intermedia, Link. M. scorpioides, var. arvensis, L.) 

 — Fields, &e. : not very common, perhaps not indigenous. (Eu.) 



3. M. verna, Kutt. Bristly-hirsute, branched from the base, erect (4'- 

 12' high); leaces obtuse, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulate-oblong ; racemes 

 Itafy at the base; corolla very small, white, with a short limb; pedicels in fmit 

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

 rather shorter than the deeply 5-clefl unequal (somewhat 2-lippcd) eery hispid calyx. 

 (M. inflexa, Engelm.) — Dry hills : rather common. May - July. 



4. M. VERSICOLOR, Pers. More slender than the last, simple at the base ; 

 racemes loose, mostly naked at the base ; flowers almost sessile; corolla pale i/el- 

 hw changing to blue or violet; calyx deeply and equallij 5-clefl. — Fields, Delaware, 

 W. M. Canby. (Nat. from Eu.) 



8. ECHINOSPEEMUM, Swartz. Sticksiced. 



Corolla salvcr-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, triiingular or compresseci, 

 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 bractcd (so called) racemes; ours annuals or biennials, flowering all 

 summer. (Name compounded of ex'""^- '' hedgehog, and cnrep^a, se(d.) 



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

 short pedicels erect ; leaves lanceolate, rough-hairy ; nutlets each with a double 

 row of prickles at the margins, and rongh-tuberclcd on the back. — Waste places : 

 common. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. E. Redowskii, Lehm. Nutlets with a single marginal row of stout 

 prickles, and granulate-roughened on the back : otherwise much like the hi.st. 

 (E. patnlum, Hook.) — St. Paul's, Minnesota, and on tht plains westward 



9. CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. IIocxd's-Tongue. 



Corolla funnel-form ; the tube about the length of tl:e .'i-partcd calyx ; the 

 throat closed with 5 obtuse scales ; the lobes rounded. Stamens included. Nut- 



