74 CLASS V. ORDER I. 



A very smooth, spreading plant of the salt marshes. Pedun- 

 cles lateral. Flowers blue. Corolla subcampanulate. — Shores 

 of riymouth.— July.— Mr. Russell. 



It is considered by some a Cynoglossum. 



78. ONOSMODIUM. 

 Onosmodium iiispidum. 3Ix, Hairy Onosmodium. 



Hispid ; leaves obovate-Ianceolate, papillose ; seg- 

 ments of the corolla subulate. 



Sljn. LiTHOSPERMUM ViKGINIANUM. L. 



The whole plant is hairy, the hairs proceeding from minute, 

 elevated dots or prominences. Leaves two or three inches long. 

 Racemes leafy, nodding in flower, erect in fruit. Corolla yel- 

 lowish-w^hite; style twice as long as the corolla. Nantucket. — 

 Hitchcock's Catal. — August. — Perennial. 



79. LYCOPSIS. 

 Lycopsis Virginica. L. Virginian Lycopsis. 



Small, hispid ; lower leaves spatnlate, upper ones 

 linear-oblong, entire ; racemes solitary ; flowers pe- 

 dunculated. 



A small hairy plant, found with Krigia Virginica in dry woods 

 and on hills. Root leaves spatulate or obovate, those of the 

 stem oblong, closely sessile or half clasping. Stem erect, square, 

 in tne larger ones branched. Flowers in a leafy raceme, each 

 one pedunculated and given off from the side of a leaf. Calyx 

 segments acute, slightly unequal, corolla white or purplish, the 

 segments rounded, the tube contracted at top and bottom, and 

 swelling in the middle. Stamens short, concealed in the tube. 

 — May, June. — Annual. 



Lycopsis arvf.nsis. L. Wild Bugloss. 



Hispid ; leaves lanceolate, repand-toothed; racemes 

 double ; flowers sessile. 



A very bristly plant with small blue flowers, probably intro- 

 duced from Europe. — Dry hills. — June, July. 



