256 BORAGE FAiriLT. 



O. Virginiinum. Clothed with harsh but oppressed short bristles, 1 ° - 2° 

 high, with oblonsr leaves, and lance-awl-shaped lobes of naiTow corolla spar- 

 ingly bristly outside. 



O. Caroliniiinum. From New York W. & S. : shaggy with rough and 

 spreading bristles, stout, 3° -4° high, with lance-ovate or oblong-acuto loaves, 

 and lobes of rather broad corolla triangular and thickly hairy. 



O. mdlle. Only W. ; hoary with softer and whitish oppressed hairs, the 

 oblong-ovate bluntish leaves strongly ribbed, and lobes of the triangulai--pointed 

 lobes of the narrow corolla thickly hairy outside. 



5. LITHOSPEEMUM, GROMWELL, PITCCOON. (Name from 

 .Greek, means stont/ seed.) Flowers in late spring and summer, at. length 



scattered or as if spiked, leafy-bracted. 



§ 1. Corolla white or only yellowish in the wholly naked throat, scarcely longer than 

 the calyx : nutlets rough-wrinkled and pitied, gray and dull. Q) © 



Ii. arv6nse. Corn Gromwell. Nat. from Eu. in waste dry soil, 6'- 12f 

 high, roughish-hoary, with lanceolate or linear leaves and inconspicuous flowers. 



§ 2. Corolla dull whitish, rather short, with little downy scales or rather Jblds in 

 the throat : nutlets smooth or with a Jew pores, often ivory-white, y. 



L. augustif61ium. River-banks from 111. S. & W. : minutely roughish- 

 hoary, branched, 6' - I. 5' high, with linear rigid leaves, short peduncles recurved 

 in fruit, and corolla not longer than calyx. 



L. officinale, Commos G. of Europe, a weed by some roadsides : l°-2° 

 high, branched above, with broadish-lanceolate acute leaves rough above but 

 soft-down^ beneath, and corolla longer than calyx 



L. latlfdlium. From W. New York W. & S. : larger and rougher than 

 the last, ovate and lance-ovate pointed leaves 2' -4' long and prominently 

 ribbed, those from the root larger and roundish ; corolla shorter than calyx. 



§ 3. Corolla briglit orange-yellow, showy, longer than calyx, almost salver-shaped, 

 with little appendages in the throat evident : nutlets smooth, usually ivory-white. 



L. hirtum. Hairy Puccoou. Dry ground, chiefly S. & W. : l°-2° 

 high, roughish-bristly, with lanceolate or linear leaves, or those next the flowers 

 ovate-oblong and bristly-ciliate, the crowded flowers peduncled, tube of the 

 corolla scarcely longer than the breadth of the border (i'-l'j and woolly- 

 bearded at base inside. ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' 



Ii. candscens. Hoary P. Mostly N.' & W. : softer-hairy and somewhat 

 hoary, 6' - 15' high, smaller-flowered than the preceding, and tube of corolla 

 smooth at base inside. 



L. longiflbrum, only on prairies N. W., has linear leaves, and tube of 

 corolla 1' or more long, many times longer than the eroded-toothed lobes. 



6. MYOSOTIS, FORGET-ME-NOT or SCORPION-GRASS. (Name 

 in Greek means mouse-ear, from the short soft leaves of some species.) Fl. 

 spring and summer. 



M. palilistris, True F., in gardens and some waste places, with loosely 

 branched stems ascending from a creeping base, rough-pubescent lance-oblong 

 leaves, moderately 5-cleft calyx shorter than the spreading pedicels, its hairs 

 not hooked nor glandular, and its lobes open in fruit; corolla light blue with a 

 yellow eye. — Var. lAxa, wild in wet places N., has smaller flowers on still 

 longer pedicels, y. 



M. drvensia. Not rare in fields, &c. : hirsute, with lance-oblong acutish 

 leaves, racemes naked at base and stalked, small bine corolla, pedicels spreading 

 in fruit and longer than the 5-cleft equal calyx, the lobes of which are closed in 

 fruit, and the tube beset with some hooked or glandular-tipijed haire. ® ® 



M. v6rna. Dry hills : bristly-hirsute, erect (4' - 10 high), branched fwrn 

 base, with oblong and blunt leaves, racemes leafy at base, very small mostly 

 white corolla, pedicels in fruit erect and oppressed at base, but abruptly bent 

 outwards neai- the apex, and rather shorter than the unequal very bristly calyx, 

 some of its bristles hooked or glandular at their tip. ® ® 



