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2. M. laxa, Lehm. SMALL FORGET-ME-NOT. Annual or peren- 

 nial ; whole plant downy ; stem slender, weak, decumbent and root- 

 ing at the base, 1-2 ft. long. Lower leaves spatulate, the upper 

 lanceolate. Racemes loosely flowered, becoming elongated in fruit. 

 Pedicels spreading. Calyx rough-hairy, the lobes as long as the 

 tube. Corolla pale blue, with a yellow eye. Nutlets -convex on all 

 sides. On low ground and in brooks and ponds.* 



VI. LITHOSPERMUM, Tourn. 



Herbs, with stout, usually reddish roots. Flowers appear- 

 ing axillary and solitary or else in leafy-bracted spikes. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped, with or without folds 

 or appendages at the mouth of the tube ; the limb 5-cleft, its 

 divisions rounded. Stamens included in the corolla-tube, the 

 anthers nearly sessile. Nutlets either smooth or wrinkled, 

 generally very hard and bony. 



1. L. arvense, L. CORN GROMWELL. A rough weed, about 1 ft. 

 high. Leaves narrowly lanceolate. Flowers inconspicuous, whitish 

 in the upper leaf axils. Corolla hardly extending beyond the calyx, 

 without appendages in the throat. Nutlets rough or wrinkled and 

 dull. Sandy banks and roadsides ; introduced from Europe. 



2. L. hirtum, Lehm. HAIRY PUCCOON. Rough-hairy, perennial, 

 1-2 ft. high. Corolla deep orange-yellow, with appendages in the 

 throat and clad with wool within at the bottom ; flowers handsome, 

 peduncled, in a crowded cluster. Dry, open pine woods, in sandy soil. 



3. L. canescens, Lehm. PUCCOON, INDIAN PAINT. Perennial. 

 Clothed with soft hairs, 8-12 in. high. Flowers axillary and sessile. 

 Corolla appendaged, not woolly within, showy, orange-yellow. Banks 

 and open woods. 



VII. ECHIUM, Tourn. 



Herbs or sometimes shrubs, usually stout, coarse, and hairy. 

 Leaves entire. Flowers white, reddish-purple or blue, in 

 spiked or panicled racemes. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla-tube 

 cylindrical . or funnel-shaped; the throat dilated; the limb 

 with 5 unequal lobes. Filaments unequal, adnate to the 

 corolla below, projecting from the corolla. Style thread-like, 

 stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets 4, ovoid or top-shaped, wrinkled. 



1. E. vulgare, L. BLUE THISTLE, BLUE WEED, BLUE DEVILS, 



Stems 1-3 ft. high, more or less erect, leafy, covered with stinging 



