324 BORRAGINACEJE. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



gmaller-flowered forms, among which high authorities rank M. csespitosa and 

 .'with yet more reason) the intermediate 



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

 1 w smaller; pedicels longer. Wet places ; common, especially northward. 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



* * Calyx closing, or the lobes erect in fruit, clothed with spreading hairs, a part of 

 them minutely hooked or glandular at the apex. 



2. HI, m'Vi'iisis, L. Hoffm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or as- 

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

 iWse and stalked; corolla small, blue (rarely white); pedicels sheading in fruit 

 i*nd larger than the 5-cleJl equal calyx. () (g) (M. intermedia, Link. M. scor- 

 pioides, var. arvensis, L.) Fields, &c. ; not very common. (Indigenous?) 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



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

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

 leafy at the base ; corolla very small and white, with a short limb ; pedicels in 

 fruit erect and appressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outward? near the 

 apex, rather shorter than the deeply 5-cleft unequal (somewhat 2-lipped) very hispid 

 calyx. () (2) (M. inflexa, Engelm. M. stricta, erf. 1. M. arvensis, Torr. fl. 

 N. Y.) Dry hills, &c., Massachusetts to Wisconsin and southward. May- 

 July. 



8. ECHINOSPERMUM, Swartz. STICKSEED. 



Corolla salver-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, triangular or compressed, 

 the back armed with 1-3 marginal rows of prickles which are barbed at the 

 apex, otherwise naked. Kough-hairy and grayish herbs, with small blue flow- 

 ers in bracted racemes. (Name compounded of e'^Ivos, a hedgehog, and aireppa, 

 seed, from the prickly nutlets.) 



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

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

 row of prickles at the margins, and tubercled on the back. (J) (g) Waste 

 places ; common. July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



9. CYNOGL-OSSUUI, Tourn. HOUND'S-TONGTJE. 



Corolla funnel-form ; the tube about the length of the 5-parted calyx ; the 

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

 Nutlets depressed or convex, obliqtie, fixed near the apex to the base of the 

 style, roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. Coarse herbs, 

 with a strong unpleasant scent, and mostly panicled racemes which are naked 

 above but usually bracted at the base. Lower leaves petioled. (Name from 

 KUCOI/J a dog, and yXcoomi, tongue; from the shape and texture of the leaves.) 



1. C. OFFICINA.LE, L. (COMMON HOUND'S-TONGUE.) Clothed icith short 

 soft hairs, leafy, panicled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile by a 

 rounded or slightly heart-shaped base ; racemes nearly bractless ; c trolla reddish- 



