210 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



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639. Wild Comfrey. Cynoglossmn virginiannm. A native 

 relative of No. 637, with larger stem leaves, and broader 

 basal ones. Flowers blue, in long-stalked rather open, slightly 

 i-sided, racemes. In woods. N. J. to Florida, and westward. 

 Fig. 639. 



640. Stick-tight. Lappula virginiana. A much branched 

 biennial 2-4 ft. high. Basal leaves oval or nearly round, 3-8 

 in. long, 1 34 -3 ii^- wide, with a distinct marginal vein, the 

 upper leaves smaller. Flowers small, white, scarcely ^ in. 

 long, in a loose interrupted and few-flowered cluster, which 

 is only slightly i -sided. Fruit a sticky bur enclosing the 

 nutlets. In dry woods and thickets. New Brunswick to 

 Georgia, and westward. June-September. 



641. BuRSEED. Lappula Lappula. (Lappula echinata.) A pale 

 European weed, 1-2 ft. high with narrowly linear leaves, less 

 than y^ in. wide. Flowers as in No. 640, but blue. In waste 

 places. Nova Scotia to New Jersey, and westward. May- 

 September. Fig. 641. 



642. Forget-me-not. Myosotis scorpioidcs. A semi-erect 

 hairy European perennial, usually rooting at the lower joints. 

 Leaves of an oval-oblong type, 1-3 in. long, a little less than 

 ^ in. wide. Flowers about V^ in. wide, the tube very short, 

 blue with a yellow center, in terminal obviously i -sided ra- 

 cemes. In wet places. Newfoundland to Tenn., as an escape 



