BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginacess. 



the trumpet-like flowers with five lobes are rarely white. 

 1-2 feet high. On river meadows and along river-banks 

 from N. Y. and N. J., south to S. Car., west to Minn., 

 Neb., and Kan. 



Forget-me-not The true for g et - me - n k>v f gardens, es- 

 Myosotis caped from cultivation, and found in wet 



scorpioides ground or marshes. A perennial with 

 Light blue slender, sprawling, fine-hairy stems, and 

 gray-green oblong lance-shaped leaves, 

 stemless or nearly so. The small light blue flowers with 

 a golden eye, in small clusters somewhat curved. 6-15 

 inches high. Beside brooks and in wet places from Me. , 

 south to Pa. , and west. A native of Europe and Asia. 

 A species similar in many respects to 



Smaller ^e foregoing, with the fine-hairiness 



Forget=me=not . .. .. . _ ., , 



Myosotis laxa bending close to stem and leaf, the leaves 



blunt and oblong, and the very small and 

 pale light blue flowers on long stems, loosely clustered. 

 The calyx lobes as long as the flower- tube. 6-1$ inches 

 high. Wet places. Me. , south to Tenn. , 'west to Wis. 



An annual or biennial, with very bristly- 

 get-me-not" na i r y stems and leaves, the latter oblong 

 Myosotis and obtuse. Small white flowers ; the 



virginica calyx unequally five-cleft, bristly, with 



some of the bristles hooked at the tips. 



3-15 inches high. On dry ttariks from Me. , 

 south, and west to Minn. The var. Tiiocrosperma^ a 

 western form, is larger and has a looser flower-cluster. 



A rough-hairy annual or biennial, with 

 Corn uromwell 



Lithospermum erect > branching stems and foliage resetn- 

 arvense bling that of Myosotis, but a brighter 



White green. The small white flowers scattered 



May-August on ^ e spikes and stemless or nearly soT 

 6-18 inches high. Sandy roadsides and fields from Me. , 

 south to Ga., and west to Mich, and Kan. 



A similar taller species with a much- 

 lAthospermum branched stem gra y-green, few-veined, 

 ofiicinale T i ^ t. 



Cream white r ough, and stemless leaves ratfrer broad 



lance-shaped. The cream white flowers 

 with corollas funnel- formed and a little longer than the 1 

 five-pointed hairy calyx. 1-3 feet high. New Eng.,, 



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