684 



BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



S63. M. scorpioide 



rough-pubescent, oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong; calyX' 

 lobes much shorter than its tube; limb of corolla 5-8 mm. 

 broad, sky-blue, with a yellow eye. (il/. palustris 

 Hill.) — In wet ground, Nfd. to w. N. Y., and 

 southw. INIay-Sept. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 863. 

 2. M. laxa Lehm. Perennial from filiform 

 subterranean shoots ; stems very slender, decum- 

 bent ; pubescence all appressed ; leaves lance- 

 olate-oblong or somewhat spatulate ; calyx-lobes 

 as long as the tube ; limb of corolla rarely 5 mm. 

 broad, paler blue. — In water and wet ground, Nfd. to Ont., and 



southw. May- Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 864. „,^ ,, , 



*' o V / 864. M. laxa. 



* * Calyx closing or the lobes erect in fruity clothed loith spreading hairs, some 

 minutely hooked or gland-tipped ; corolla small; annual or biennial. 



t- Calyx about equally b-cleft. 



♦* Pedicels in fruit longer than the calyx. 



3. Bt arvdnsis (L.) Hill. Hirsute with spreading hairs, 

 erect or ascending, 1-4.5 dm. high ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acutish ; racemes naked at the base and stalked ; corolla blue, 

 rarely white. — Fields, etc., Nfd. to Minn, and W. Va. June- 

 Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 865. 



Pedicels shorter than the calyx, the latter about 4 mm. long. 



RsfcoLOR (Pers.) Sm. Slender, 1-3 dm. high, mostly simple at 

 base, often branched above; stems and leaves 

 uniformly pubescent with ascending straightish 

 hairs; upper leaves somewhat pointed ; racemes 

 loose, mostly naked at base ; pedicels appressed- 

 ■ pubescent; corolla pale yellow, changing to 

 blue, then to violet, the tube exceeding the 

 calyx ; style distinctly longer than the nutlets. — 

 Fields, "N.Y.," and Del. May-July. (Nat. 

 from Eu.) Fig. 866. 



5. M. MiCRAXTHA Pallas. Stems 0.5-2 dm. 

 high, branching from the base, with the oblong 

 or lanceolate blunt leaves pubescent with mixed 

 straight and divergent hooked hairs; scattered 

 flowers produced from the lower axils ; pedicels 

 very short, mostly tvith some divergent hooked 

 hairs; corolla blue, the tube barely equaling 

 the calyx ; style rarely equaling the nutlets. 

 (Jf. collina Am. auth., n^t Hoffm.) — Road- 

 sides, old fields, etc.. Mass, to Ont. and 0. 

 May-Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 867. 



M. arvenste. 



4. M. VE 



866. M. versicolor. 



+- -t- Calyx somewhat 2-lipped, unequally and deeply 5-cleft. 



867. M. micrantha. 6. M. virginlca (L.) ESP. Bristly-hirsute, branched from 

 the base, erect, 0.5-4 dm. high; leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, 

 or the lower spatulate-oblong ; racemes leafy at the base ; 

 corolla very small, white, with a short limb ; pedicels in fruit 

 erect and appressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outward 

 near the apex; calyx very hispid, 3-5 mm. long. (M. verna 

 Nutt.) — Dry banks and rocky w^oods. Me. to Ont. and Minn., 

 westw. and southw. Apr.-July. Fig. 868. Passing westw. ggg j^j virginica 

 and southw. to the larger formal var. macrosperma (Engelm.) 

 Fernald (M. macrosperma Engelm.), with looser inflorescence and larger calyx 

 and nutlets. 



