76 CLASS V. ORDER I. 



Si/n. Myosotis scoRnoiDEs. 1st edit. 



This plant is by many of our botanists considered a variety of 

 M. scorpioides. It is found about the edges of ditches and 

 streams. Stem rooting at base, ascending, mostly smooth. 

 Leaves scattered, broad lanceolate, sessile, nearly smooth. 

 Racemes terminal, rolled back at the end. Flowers pointing 

 one way, small, rose colored. — From June to October. — Pe- 

 rennial. 



§ Subgenus Rochelia. Seeds echinate. 

 Myosostis Virginiana. L. Virginia 3fousc car. 



Hairy, seeds bristled with hooks, leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, racemes divaricate. 



Syn. Rochelia Virginiana. R. Jf S. 



Stem erect, furrowed, hairy, with numerous branches. Leaves 

 large, the lower ones petioled, lanceolate, entire, roughish, hairy. 

 Flowers small, in numerous short racemes. Calyx segments 

 oblong, subacute. Corolla white, roundish, entire, as long as the 

 calyx, crowned at the mouth. Seeds covered with short adher- 

 ing hooks or bearded points. 



A weed in cultivated ground and rubbish. — July. — Annual. 



82. HYDROPHYLLUM. 

 Hydropiiyllum Virginicum L. Virginian Hydrophyllum. 

 Smooth ; leaves pinnatifid and pinnate, the seg- 

 ments oval-lanceolate, cut-serrate; fascicles conglom- 

 erate. 



Root fleshy, fibrous, very sweet to the taste. Leaves pinnate; 

 leafets ovate, cut and toothed acuminate, nearly smooth, the up- 

 per ones running together. Petioles clasping the stem. Stem 

 a foot high, somewhat semi-cylindrical. Flowers in a crowded 

 tuft at the top. Segments of the calyx linear, pectinate with 

 hairs. Corolla bluish white, bell shaped, divided into five obtuse 

 segments, having each a triangular bivalved nectariferous cavity 

 running down its inside. Stamens twice as long as the corolla. 

 Germ covered with close, erect hairs. Style as long as the 

 stamens, bifid at top. — On the sides of the Ascutney mountain, 

 Windsor, Vermont. — June. — Perennial. 



