434 XCIV. BORRAGINACE.E. MYOSOTIS. 



^ St. and leaves usually glabrous and pellucid-punctate, the radical ones 

 many-veined, cauline sessile. Rac. terminal. 



1. M. VIRGINICA. DC. (Pulmonaria. Linn. Lithospermum pulchrum. 

 Lehm.} Virginian Lungwort. Plant erect, smooth; cal. much shorter 



than the tube of the corolla, limb longer than the tube ; radical Ivs. (large) 

 obovate-elliptical, obtuse ; cauline ones long-lanceolate. A smooth, erect, and 

 elegant plant, about 20' high, native in N. Y. to Ga. and W. States, sometimes 

 cultivated. The leaves of the stem are sessile, much narrower than those of 

 the root, whose width is of their length. Flowers in terminal clusters. 

 Corolla blue, funnel-form, sitting upon a short, 5-toothed calyx. Stamens and 

 style included. May. 



2. M. MARITIMA. G. Don. (Pulmonaria. Linn. Lithospermum. Lehm.} 

 Glabrous ; sts. and branches procumbent or ascending ; Ivs. ovate, obtuse, 



fleshy, glaucous, the radical petiolate, cauline sessile ; rac. leafy ; cal. deeply 

 cleft, scarcely half as long as the glabrous corolla. Sea shore, Northern States, 

 Pursh, N. to Greenland. Stem diffusely branched. Flowers purplish-blue, 

 limb longer than the tube. Jl. 



3. M. DENTICULATA. G. Don. (Pulmonaria. Roem. Lilhospermum. 

 Lehm.}- St. erect ; Ivs. glaucous, rather fleshy, acute-mucronate, ciliate- 



denticulate, radical ovate, petiolate, cauline oblong, sessile, 3-veined at base ; 

 cal. segments acute; pedicels as long as the flower; sty. finally exserted. N. Y. 

 MuM. Torrey. Stems 6 12' high, clustered. Peduncles many-flowered. 

 Corolla pale purple. 



10. PULMONARIA. 



Probably named from its having been used in lung complaints. 



Calyx prismatic, 5-angled, 5-toothed ; cor. infundibuliform, with a 

 cylindric tube, orifice hairy in 5 lines alternating with the stamens ; 

 ach. imperforate. ^ European herbs. 



P. OFFICINALIS. Common Lungwort. Plant rough ; cal. the length of the 

 tube of the corolla ; radical Ivs. ovate, cordate, scabrous, cauline ones ovate, ses- 

 sile. Native of England, but naturalized and cultivated in our gardens. 

 Flowers blue, in terminal clusters. Stem a foot high. This as well as other 

 foreign species of this genus, is a rough-leaved plant, while the several Ameri- 

 can species are uniformly smooth. "May. 



11. MYOSOTIS. Dill. 

 Gr. jjivog, a rat, and (<m) oroy, an ear; from the form of the leaves. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; corolla hypocrateriform, the 5 lobes slightly emar- 

 ginate, orifice closed with short, concave scales ; achenia ovate, 

 smooth, with a small cavity at base. Herbs, slightly villous. Rac. 

 at length elongated. 



1. M. CJESPITOSA. Schultz. a. laxa. DC. (M. palustris. Roth. M. scor- 

 poides. Willd.} Marsh Scorpion Grass. Nearly smooth, somewhat branched, 



erect; Ivs. linear-oblong, obtuse, with short, scattered hairs; rac. without bracts ; 

 pedicels divaricate in fruit, twice as long as the short, spreading, smooth seg- 

 ments of the calyx. 1\. Grows about ditches and marshes, Can. and U. S., often 

 called water-mouse-ear from the leaves, which are roughish with appressed hairs. 

 Stem about a foot high, with scattered hairs, ascending from long, creeping 

 roots. Leaves scattered, sessile, 1 3' long, as wide. Racemes terminal, or 

 often one of them supra-axillary, one-sided. Flowers small, blue, on pedicels 

 i' long. May Aug. 



2. M. STRICT^ . Link. (M. arvensis. Rich, and 1st edit. M. inflexa. Engelm.) 

 Forget-me-not. St. branching ; Ivs. oval-lanceolate, hairy ; rac. long ; pedi- 

 cels in fruit suberect, about as long as the calyx; cal. segments oval, acuminate, 

 hairy, closed, about the length of the corolla. () Found in sandy woods, N. 

 Eng. ! to 111. ! Whole plant of a grayish hue from its dense pubescence. Stem 

 410' high, at length much branched. Leaves i 1' in length, sessile, acutish, 



