324 BOKRAGlNACEiE. (bORAGE FAMILY.) 



smaller-flowered forms, among which high authorities rank M. cic-jiitos.'., .'.mi 

 (with yet more reason) tlio intermediate 



Var. Ii3ixil> (M. laxa, Lehm.) Creeping base of the stem shoit; flowers 

 J or J smaller ; pedicels longer. — Wet places ; common, especially northward. 

 May -Aug. (Eu.) 



* * Calyx closing, or the Iches erect in fruit, clothed with, spreading hairs, a part of 

 them minutely hooked or glandular at the apex. 



2. in. arvensis, L. Hoifm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or as- 

 cending (6'- 15' high); leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish ; racenus nuked at the 

 base and stalked ; corolla small, blue (rarely white) ; pedicels spxading in fruit 

 and larger tlum the 5-cleft equal calyx. (T) @ (M. intermedia, Link. M. scor- 

 pioides, var. arvensis, £.)■ — Fields, &c. ; not very common. (Indigenous?) 

 May-Aug. (Eu.) 



3. M. vcrna, Nutt. Bristly-hirsute, branched from the base, erect (4' - 

 12' high); leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulatc-oblong; racemes 

 leafy at the base; corolla very small and white, with a short limb; jmlials in 

 fruit erect and oppressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outwards near tlie 

 apex, rather shorter than the deeply 5-cleft unequal (somewhat 2-lipped) very his])id 

 calyx. (%) @ (M. inflexa, Engelm. M. stricta, erf. I. M. arvensis, Torr. f. 

 N. Y.) — Dry hills, &c., Massachusetts to Wisconsin and southward. May- 

 July. 



8. ECHIIVOSPERMUM, Swartz. Stickseed. 



Corolla salver-foiTir, short, nearly as in Myosotis, but imbricated in the bud ; 

 the throat closed with 5 short scales. Stamens included. Nutlets erect, fixed 

 laterally to the base of the style or central column, triangular or compressed, 

 the back ai-mcd with 1-3 marginal rows of prickles which are barbed at the 

 apex, othenvisc naked. — Rough-hairy and grayish herbs, with small blue flow- 

 ers in bracted racemes. (Name compounded of ixivos, a hedgehog, and (mepfia, 

 seed, from the prickly nutlets.) 



1. E. LipPHLA, Lehm. Stem upright, branched above (l°-2° high) ; the 

 short pedicels erect; leaves lanceolate, rough-hairy; nutlets each with a doulile 

 row of prickles at the margins, and tubercled on the back. ® ^ • — Waste 

 places; common. July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



9. CYNOGliOSStJM, Toum. Hound's-Tongub. 



Corolla funnel-form ; the tube about the length of the 5-partcd calyx ; the 

 throat closed with 5 obtuse scales; the lobes rounded. Stamens included. 

 Nutlets depressed or convex, oblique, fixed near the apex to the base of the 

 style, roughened all over with short barbed or hooked prickles. — Coarse herbs, 

 with a strong unpleasant scent, and mostly panicled racemes which are naked 

 above but usually bracted at the base. Lower leaves petioled. (Name from 

 Kvav, a dog, and yXaaaa, tongue; from the shape and texture of the leaves.) 



1. C. orricijrALE, L. (Common HonND's-ToNGUE.) Clothed with short 

 soft hairs, leafy, panicled above; upper leaves lanceolate, closely sessile by a 

 rounded or slightly heart-shaped base ; racemes nearly bractless ; corolla reddish- 



