Echinospermum. BORRAGINACEiE. 189 



# Racemes panicled, leafy-bracteate only at base, minutely bracteate or bractless above : slender 

 pedicels recurved or deflexed in fruit: calyx-lobes lanceolate or oblong, sborter than the fruit, 

 and at length reflexed under it: scar of the nutlets ovate or triangular, medial or infra-medial: 

 gynobase short-pyramidal : biennials or annuals, some perhaps perennials, pubescent or hirsute, 

 not hispid. 



+- Corolla short-funnelforra (blue) ; the tube surpassing the calyx, about the length of the lobes. 



E. diffdsiim., Lehm. A foot or so high : leaves oblong-lanceolate ; or the lowest spatu- 

 late, narrowed at base into long wing-margined petioles ; the upper sessile, from oblong- 

 lanceolate to ovate or cordate, passing into small bracts : racemes commonly loose and 

 spreading : fruiting pedicels 3 to 5 lines long : limb of the bright blue corolla from half 

 inch in diameter to much smaller : style slender : fruit a globose bur ; the nutlets 3 lines 

 long, densely muriculate-scabrous, rather sparsely armed throughout with long and flat- 

 tened prickles ; the scar large and broadly ovate : gynobase broadly pyramidal. — Pug. 

 ii. 23, & in Hook. Fl. ii. 83. E. nervosum, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 146, fig. 42. E. 

 dpjlexum, y&r. floribundum, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 641, in part. — Open woods, &c., Oregon, and 

 California, along the Sierra Nevada, where it is common. 

 .^^ 4_ Corolla rotate (from blue to nearly white); its tube shorter than the calyx and the lobes. 



B. floriblindum, Lehm., 1. c. Rather strict, 2 feet or more high, or sometimes smaller : 

 leaves from oblong- to linear-lanceolate ; the lowest tapering into margined petioles : 

 racemes numerous, commonly geminate and in fruit rather strict : nutlets with elongated 

 triangular back naked (2 lines long), merely scabrous ; and the margin armed with a close 

 row of flat subulate prickles, their bases often confluent ; scar smaller and narrowly ovate. 

 — Hook. Fl. ii. 84, 1. 164. E. deflexum, var. floribundum, Watson, Bot. King, 246 ; Gray, 

 1. c, mainly. E. subdecumbens, Parry in Proc. Davenport Acad. i. 148, a small form, said to 

 be perennial. — Lake Winnipeg to British Columbia, and south to New Mexico and Cali- 

 fornia. Limb of corolla varying from 2 to 5 lines in diameter. 



E. deflexum, Lehm. Diffusely branched, a foot or so high : leaves from oblong to 

 lanceolate : racemes lax, loosely paniculate : flowers soon sparse, smaller than in the pre- 

 ceding : nutlets smaller, and the mostly naked back (a line long) broader. — Asper. 120, & 

 in Hook. I.e. Myosotis deflexa, Wahl. Act. Holm. 1810, 113, t. 4; Fl. Dan. 1. 1568. — Sas- 

 katchewan, and Winnipeg Valley, Druvimond, Bourgeau. Brit. Columbia, Lyall. Habit 

 intermediate between the preceding and following ; the American specimens having occa- 

 sionally some few prickles developed from the rough-granulate dorsal face of the nutlets. 

 Fruit as well as flowers about half the size of that of E. floribundum. (Siberia to Eu.) 



E. Virginicum, Lehmi., 1. c. Stem 2 to 4 feet high, erect, with long and widely spread- 

 ing branches : radical leaves round-ovate or cordate, slender-petioled ; cauline (3 to 8 inches 

 long) ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends ; uppermost passing into 

 lanceolate bracts : loosely paniculate racemes divaricate, filiform : pedicel and flower each 

 about a line long : corolla slightly surpassing the calyx, pale blue or white : fruit globular, 

 2 lines in diameter, armed all over with short prickles. — Myosotis ^^rginiana, L. Spec. 189. 

 M. Virginica, L. Spec. ed. 2, 189 (Moris. Hist. iii. 449, sect. 11, t. 30, fig. 9). Cynoglossum 

 Morisoni, DC. Prodr. x. 155. — Borders of woods and thickets, Canada to Alabama and 

 Louisiana. 



* * Spikes leafy-bracteate : pedicels erect or merely spreading, stout, shorter than the calyx : 

 lobes of the latter little shorter than the small corolla, becoming foliaceous and often unequal, 

 mostlv exceeding the fruit: scar of the nutlets long and narrow, occupj'ing most of the ventral 

 angle>orrespondmg with the subulate gynobase: annuals, with rough or hispid pubescence: 

 leaves linear, lanceolate, or the lower somewhat spatulate. 



E. Lappula, Lehm., I.e. Erect, a foot or two high, branched above; nutlets rough-granu- 

 late or tuberculate on the back, the margins with a double row of slender and distinct 

 prickles, or these irregular over most of the back. — Fl. Dan. t. 692. — Waste and culti- 

 vated grounds, from the Middle Atlantic States to Canada. (Nat. from Eu.) 



E. Redowskii, Lehm., i.e. Erect, a span to 2 feet high, paniculately branched : nut- 

 lets irregularly and minutely muricately tuberculate ; the margins armed with a single 

 row of stout flattened prickles, which are not rarely confluent at base. — Gray, Proc. Acad. 

 Philad. 1862, 165 ; Watson, Bot. King, 246, t. 23, fig. 9-12. Myosotis Redowskii, Hornem. 

 Hort. Hafn. i. 174. E. intermedium, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. & Ic. ii. t. 180. (N. Asia.) 



Var. OCCidentale, Watson, 1. c, the American plant, is less strict, at length 

 diffuse and the tubercles or scabrosities of the nutlet are sharp instead of blunt or round- 



