168 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



* * Corolla with B scales completely closing tlie thvoat. 

 ■ 2. Sym'pliytiiiii. Corolla tubular-funnel-form with short spreading 

 lobes ; scales awl-shaped. Flowers yelloioish-white, in nodding 

 raceme-like clusters, the latter often In pairs. Nutlets smooth. 

 Coarse hairy herbs. 



3. Eclihiosper'innm. Nutlets pHcMy on the margin. Corolla salver- 



shaped, lobes rounded ; scales short and blunt. Flowers blue, 

 small,in leafy-bracted racemes. Plant rough-hairy. 



4. Cyuuglos'snni. Nutlets prickly all over. "Corolla funnel-form; 



scales blunt. Flowers red-pm-ple or pale blue, in racemes which 

 arc nakad above, hut usually leafy-bracted below. Strong-scented 

 coarse herbs. 

 6. Xycoii'slS' Corolla funnel-shaped, the scales in the throat bristly. 

 Flowers blue, in leafy raceme-like clusters. Nutlets rough- 

 bristly, as is the whole plant. 



X K * Corolla open, the scales or folds not sufficient to completely close 

 the throat. 



6. nicrtcii'sla. Corolla bell-funnel-shaped, mostly with 5 small glan- 



dular folds in the open throat. Caly.i deeply 6-oleft. Stylo Ions: 

 and thread-form. Nutlets smooth or ivrinkled. Flowers pnrplish- 

 bhie or white, In loose and short raceme-like clusters, only the 

 lower one leafy-bracted. Pedicels slender. 



7. Oii(>siiif>'iliiiiu. Corolla tubular, theBlobes acute and erect or con- 



verging. Anthers mucronate ; filaments very short. Style thread- 

 form, much exserted. Flowers greenish- or yellowish-white. 

 Eather tall stout plants, shaggy with spreading bristly hairs, or 

 rough with short appressed bristles. Nutlets smooth. 



8. IiiUiosper'innni. Corolla funnel-form or salver-shaped, the 6 lobes 



of the spreading limb rounded. Anthers almost sessile. Root 

 mostly red. Flowers small and almost white, or large and deep 

 y *low, scattered and spiked and leafy-bracted. Nutlets smooth 

 or lorintcled. 

 0. Myoso'tis. Corolla salver-shaped, with a very short tube, the lobes 

 coiivoluteintlie bud ; scales or appendages of the throat blunt and 

 arching. Flowers blue, in (so-called) racemes without bracts. 

 Low plants, mostly soft-hairy. Nutlets smooth. 



1. E'€nilJI»I, Tourn. Vipek's Bugloss. 

 E. vulga're, L. (Blue-weed.) Stem erect, 2 feet high. 

 Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. Flovreys showy, iu lateral 

 clusters, the whole forming a long narrow raceme. — Eoad- 

 sides ; common in eastern Ontario and rapidly spreading 

 westward. 



