BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginaceae. 



only the lowest with margined stems . The showy tio wers 

 trumpet-shaped with five lobes ; rarely they are white. 

 1-2 feet high. On river meadow^s and along river-banks 

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

 Neb., and Kan. 



Forget=me=not ^^^^ ^^^^ forget-me-not of gardens, 

 M>/(>.sofis escaped from cultivation, and found in 



palHstris wet ground or marshes. A perennial with 



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

 ay- u y 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 ^Yiq foregoing, with the fine-hairiness 



Muosotis laxa lending 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. 6-19 inches 

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



^ , ^ An annual or biennial species, with very 



Spring For= , . , , . i , , , 



get=me=not bristly-hany stems and leaves, the latter 



Mi/osotis v^rna oblong and obtuse. The white flowers 



White small ; the calyx unequally five-cleft, 



April-June bristly, with some of the bristles hooked 



at the tips. 3-15 inches high. On dry banks from Me., 



south, and west to Minn, and Tex. 



^ ^ ..A rough-hairv annual or biennial, with 



Corn Qrom well , , . " t /. ,• 



Lithospermum ^rect, branchmg stems and foliage resem- 



arvense bling that of MyosoHs, but a brighter 



White green. The small white flowers scattered 



May-August ^^^ ^^le spikes and stemless or nearly so. 

 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- 

 Lithospermum branched stem, gray-green, few-veined. 

 Cream white I'ough, and stemless leaves rather broad 

 lance-shaped. The cream white flowers 

 with corollas funnel-formed and a little longer than the 

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

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