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tfiroat ; filamonta equalling or longer than the oblong or somewhat arrow-shaped 

 anthers. Style long and thread-form. Nutlets ovoid, fleshy when fresh, smooth 

 or wrinkled, obliquely attached next the base by a prominent internal angle ; the 

 scar small. — Smooth I or sof^hairy perennial herbs, with pale and entire leaves, 

 and handsome purplish-blue (rarely white) flowers, in loose and short paniolcd 

 or corymbed racemes, only the lower ones leafy-bracted : pedicels slender. 

 (Named for Prof. Mertens, an early German botanist.) 



I) 1 . Corolla perfectly naked in the throat ; the broad trumpet-mouthed limb lightly 5- 

 lobed : JUaments slender, much longer than the anthers. 



1. M. Tii'gfinica, DC. (Virginian Cowslip or Lungwoet.) Very 

 smooth, pale, creel (l°-2° high) ; leaves thin, obovate, vemy, those of the root 

 (4' -6' long) petioled; corolla trumpet-shaped, 1' long, many times exceeding 

 tlio calyx, rich purple-blue, rarely white. (Fulmonaria Vu'ginica, L.) — Allu- 

 vial banks, W. New York to Wisconsin, Virginia, Kentucky, and southward. 

 May. — Cultivated for ornament. 



§ 2. Corolla with 5 glandular folds or appendages at the throai ; the limb mare deeply 

 lobed : filaments shorter and flat. 



2. M. inaritinia, Don. (Sea Lungwort.) Spreading or decmnlent, 

 smooth, glaucous ; leaves fleshy, ovate or obovate, the upper surface becoming .pa- 

 pillose ; corolla bell-fnnnel-form, twice the length of the calyx (3" long) ; nutlets 

 smooth, flattened. — Sea-coast, Plymouth, Massachusetts [Russell), Maine 1 and 

 northward. (En.) 



3. Td. panicniata, Don. Boughish and more or less hairy, erect (l°-2° 

 high), loosely branched; leaves ovate and ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, thin; co- 

 rolla somewhat funnel-form, 3-4 times the length of the hairy calyx (^' long) ; 

 nutlets rovgh-wrinkted when dry. (Probably also M. pilosa, Z)C.) — Shore of 

 Lake Superior, and northward. 



<S, MYOSOTIS, L. Scoepion-Grasb. Fokset-me-not. 



Corolla salver-form, the tube about the length of the 5-toothed or 5-cleft calyx, 

 the throat with 5. small and blunt arching appendages opposite the rounded 

 lobes ; the latter convolute in the bud ! Stamens included, on very short fila- 

 ments. Nutlets smooth, compressed, fixed at the base; the scar minute. — Low 

 and mostly soft-hairy herbs, with entire leaves, those of the stem sessile, and 

 with small flowers in naked racemes, which are entirely bractless, or occasion- 

 ally with one or two small leaves next the base, prolonged and straightened 

 in fruit. (Name composed of jxis, mouse, and evs, aros, ear, in allusion to the 

 aspect of the short and soft leaves in some species : one popular name is 

 Mouse-ear.) 



* Cal-iix open in fruit, its hairs oppressed, noire of them hooked nor glandular . 



1. WI. palaistris, With. (True Porget-me-kot.) Stems ascending 

 from an obliquely creeping base (9'-^20' Iiigh), loosely branched, smoothish; 

 leaves rough -pubescent, oblong-lanccolato or linear-oblong; calyx moderately 

 6-cleft, shorter than the spreading pedicels ; corolla (rather large in the genuine 

 plant) pale blue with a yellow eye. 1). — t!ultivated occasionally. — Varies Into 



