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3. M. virginica (L.) B.S.P. Stem branched from the base, 0.5-3 dm. high, 

 hirsute; basal leaves spatulate, 1-3 cm. long; stem-leaves linear-oblong; corolla 

 white, very small. Dry banks and rocky woods: Me. Ga. Tex. Ore. B.C. 

 Ap-Je. 



16. LITHOSPERMUM (Tourn.) L. GROMWELL, PUCCOON, 

 INDIAN PAINT. 



Annual or perennial caulescent herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, narrow, 

 hirsute. Flowers perfect, regular, in bracted spikes or racemes. Calyx per- 

 sistent, 5-lobed. Corolla salverform or funnelform, white or yellow; tube often 

 elongate; throat either appendaged or pubescent; lobes 5, entire, erose, or toothed. 

 Stamens included. Stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Nutlets white, shining and 

 smooth, or brown and wrinkled, attached by their very bases to the flat recep- 

 tacle. 



Annuals; nutlets dull, brownish, coarsely wrinkled and pitted. 1. L. arvense. 



Perennials, with thick taproots; nutlets white and shining. 



Corolla-lobes neither fimbriate nor toothed; flowers all well developed. 



Corolla greenish or pale yellow, 1 cm. or less long; crest in the throat obsolete; 



plant very leafy, with the flowers mostly on the short branches. 

 Corolla-limb 3-5 mm. wide; tube not longer than the calyx; stem grayish 



strigose, but scarcely hispid. 2. L. Torreyi. 



Corolla-limb 5-8 mm. wide; tube longer than the calyx. 



Leaves linear or narrowly linear-la aceolate; stem very hispid; plant canes- 

 cent. 3. L. ruderale. 

 Leaves lanceolate, long-attenuate; stem scarcely hispid; plant green. 



4. L. lanceolatum. 



Corolla bright yellow or orange, more than 1 cm. long; crest in the throat prom- 

 inent. 

 Floral leaves of the later flowers small, shorter than the flowers; limb of the 



corolla 6-8 mm. wide. 5. L. multiflorum. 



Floral leaves of the later flowers not reduced; limb of the corolla 8-20 mm. 



wide. 

 Hispid-pubescent; corolla-tube bearded at the base within. 



6. L. Gmelini. 

 Canescent; corolla-tube not bearded at the base within. 



7. L.'canescens. 

 Corolla-lobes of the early flowers fimbriate or dentate; later flowers cleistogamous. 



Corolla of the early flowers 2.5-3 cm. (rarely only 2 cm.) long; lobes distinctly 

 fimbriate. 



Plant hirsute. 8. L. asperum. 



Plant appressed-canescent. 



Leaves narrowly linear. 9. L. linearifolium. 



Leaves spatulate to linear-oblong. 10. L. oblongum. 



Corolla of the early flowers 2 cm. or less long; lobes dentate. 



Corolla 15-20 mm. long; limb 8-10 mm-, wide; stem low, ascending or de- 

 cumbent. 11. L. mandanense. 



Corolla 10 mm. or less long; limb 6-8 mm. wide; stem strict, 2-4 dm. high, 

 mostly simple, or with erect branches. 12. L. breviflorum. 



1. L. arvense L. Stem 2-5 dm. high, strigose, simple or blanched at the 

 base ; leaves lanceolate, linear, or oblong, sessile or the lower short-petioled, canes- 

 cent-strigose; corolla white, about 6 mm. long; calyx equalling or exceeding the 

 corolla-tube; nutlets 2 mm. long. Waste places and fields: Que. Ga. Kans. 

 Minn.; Utah; Mont.; nat. from Eu. Plain Son. My-Au. 



2. L. Torreyi Nutt. Stem erect, 2-4 dm. high; leaves linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, strigose; corolla 6-8 mm. long; nutlets 5 mm. long, 

 ovoid. Hills and canons: Mont. Colo. Utah Ida. Plain Submont. Je- 

 Au. 



3. L. ruderale Lehm. Stem 3-5 dm. high; leaves 3-8 cm. long, canescent, 

 pilose, or strigose; corolla 10-12 mm. long; nutlets slightly wrinkled, 5 mm. long. 

 L. pilosum Nutt. Hills: Alta. Colo. Nev. B.C. Plain Submont. Ap-Jl. 



4. L. lanceolatum Rydb. Stem 3-6 dm. high, strigose; lower leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, the upper lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long, finely strigose; corolla yellowish, 

 8-10 mm. long; nutlets 5-6 mm. long. Hills, canons, and plains: Mont. Utah 

 Calif. Wash. Plain Submont. My-Jl. 



5. L. multiflorum Torr. Stem strigose or somewhat hirsute, 3-6 dm. high, 

 virgately branched above; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, appressed-strigose 



