GENUs II, BORAGE FAMILY. 
6. Myosotis virginica (L.) B.S.P. Spring 
or Early Scorpion-grass. Fig. 3534. 
Lycopsis virginica L. Sp. Pl. 139. 1753. 
Myosotis verna Nutt. Gen, 2: Add. 1818. 
Myosotis virginica B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 37. 1888. 
Annual or biennial, hirsute-pubescent or hispid, 
erect, branched, 3-15’ high, the branches erect. Leaves 
oblong or linear-oblong, sessile, 3-12” long, obtuse, 
or the lower spatulate and narrowed into short peti- 
oles; racemes usually bracted at the base, strict; 
pedicels ascending or erect, or slightly spreading at 
the apex, shorter than the fruiting calyx; calyx some- 
what 2-lipped, unequally 5-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, 
acute, longer than the tube, connivent in fruit, very 
hispid, the hairs, or most of them, with minutely 
hooked tips; corolla white, the limb 13” broad or 
less; nutlets convex on the back, slightly keeled and 
margined on the inner side. 
On dry hills and banks, Maine and Ontario to Minne- 
sota, Florida and Texas. Forget-me-not. April-June. 
Myosotis macrospérma Engelm., of the Southern 
States, with larger flowers and fruit, the ripe calyx 
nodding or spreading, ranging north to Virginia and 
Kentucky, appears to be a race of this species. 
12. LITHOSPERMUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 132. 1753. ; 
Annual or perennial, erect branching or rarely simple, pubescent hirsute or hispid herbs, 
with alternate entire leaves, and small or large, white yellow or blue flowers in leafy-bracted 
spikes or racemes. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the segments or lobes narrow. Corolla funnel- 
form or salverform, 5-lobed, naked, pubescent or crested in the throat, the lobes entire or 
erose-denticulate, the tube sometimes pubescent at the base within. Stamens 5, included, 
inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments short. Ovary 4-divided; style slender, or 
filiform; stigma capitate, or 2-lobed. Nutlets 4, or fewer, erect, white, smooth and shining, 
or brown and wrinkled, attached by their bases to the nearly flat receptacle, the scar of 
attachment not concave. [Greek, stone-seed, from the hard nutlets.] 
About 40 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, a few in South America and Africa. 
Besides the following, some 7 others occur in the southern and southwestern parts of the United 
States. Type species: Lithospermum officinale L. 
Corolla white or yellowish, its tube shorter than or equalling the calyx; flowers distant. 
Nutlets brown, wrinkled and pitted; annual or biennial. 1. L. arvense. 
Nutlets white, smooth and shining; perennials. 
Leaves ianceolate, acute; nutlets ovoid. 2. L. officinale. 
Leaves ovate, acuminate; nutlets globose-ovoid. 3. L. latifolium. 
Corolla dull yellow, its tube longer than the calyx; leaves lanceolate; flowers dense. 4. L. pilosum. 
Corolla bright yellow, its tube much longer than the calyx; flowers dense; red-rooted perennials. 
Corolla-lobes entire; flowers all complete. 
Hispid-pubescent; corolla-tube bearded at the base within. ' 8, L. carolinense. 
Hirsute, somewhat canescent; corolla-tube not bearded at the base. 6. L. canescens. 
Corolla-lobes erose-denticulate; later flowers cleistogamous. 7. L. linearifolium. 
1. Lithospermum arvénse L. Bastard 
Alkanet. Corn Gromwell. Fig. 3535. 
Lithospermum arvense L, Sp. Pl. 132. 1753. 
Annual or biennial, appressed-pubescent; stem 
erect, usually branched, 620’ high. Leaves bright 
green, lanceolate, linear or linear-oblong, sessile 
or the lowest short-petioled, mostly appressed, 
obtuse or acutish at the apex, narrowed at the 
base, indistinctly veined, 4’-13’ long, 3”-3” wide, 
the uppermost smaller; flowers sessile or very 
nearly so in the spikes, becoming distant, white, 
about 3” long; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, 
longer than or equalling the corolla-tube; corolla 
funnelform, puberulent in the throat but not 
crested; nutlets brown, wrinkled and pitted, gla- 
brous, about 1” high, convex on the back, keeled 
on the inner side, one-third to one-half the length 
of the calyx-segments. 
In waste places and fields, Quebec to Ontario and 
Michigan, south to Georgia and Kansas. Natural- 
ized from Europe. Native also of Asia. Pearl-plant. 
Salfern-stoneseed. May—Aug. 
