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from cultivation. June. Fig. 642. A related native species, M. 

 laxa, with a similar range and growing also in wet places 

 differs mostly in having still smaller flowers. 



643. Spring Scorpion-grass. Myosotis virginica. An erect, 

 hairy, branched plant of dry places, 5-12 in. high. Leaves 

 and flowers very like No. 642, but the flowers white, and 

 scarcely yi in. wide. Ontario and Maine to Florida, and 

 westward. May. 



644. Corn Gromwell. Lithospermum arvense. A European, 

 mostly branched weed, 8-18 in. high, and hairy. Leaves linear 

 or linear oblong, stalkless, rather pointed at the tip. Flowers 

 white, about 34 ii^- long, obviously tubular, almost stalkless 

 in leafy few-flowered clusters. In fields and waste places. 

 Quebec and Ontario to Georgia and westward. May-August. 

 Fig. 644. A related plant, L. officinale, the European Grom- 

 well, is twice as tall, has broader leaves and very similar 

 flowers. It grows in waste places and fields from Quebec to 

 New Jersey, and westward. 



645. Hoary Puccoon. Lithospermum canescens. A stiff- 

 hairy, somewhat ashy-colored perennial, 8-15 in. high. Leaves 

 very like No. 644, but the flowers about twice as large, 

 orange yellow, with a short tube, and in leafy clusters. In 

 dry places. Ontario to western New Jersey, south to Ala- 

 bama and westward. May. 



646. False Gromwell. Onosmodium virginianum. A densely 

 hairy, usually branched herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves oval-ob- 

 long, rounded at the tip, 1-3 in. long, about half as wide, 

 narrowed into short stalks. Flowers yellowish-white, with an 

 obvious tube, hairy on the outside, and arranged in terminal, 

 very i -sided, more or less leafy racemes or spikes. In dry 

 places. Mass. to Florida, westward along the Gulf to Louisi- 

 ana. June. Fig. 646. 



647. Flower cluster not distinctly i -sided. (See No. 662 for 

 an exception.) 



Plants prostrate, more or less woody ; leaves evergreen . . no. 667 



