I2i PEXTAKDRIA MONOGYXIA 



9ft. MYOSOTIS. /,. Mitt. Gen. 169. 

 [Gr. Mt/Sy wyosy a Mouse, Ow«, otos, an Ear ; from tho resemblance of the leavca.i 



Calyx 5-clcft. Corolla salverforra ; limb with 5-subemarginate lobe* 

 throat closed with 5 short comment scales ; tube short. JWts smooth, 

 ovate, with a small ring and cavity at base. 



1. M. palustrik, Roth. Leaves lance-oblong, rather obtuse, some- 

 what scabrous with appressed hairs ; peduncles of the fruit diverging, 

 about twice as long as the spreading calyx ; limb of the corolla Hat, long- 

 er than the tube. Beck, Hot. p. 253. 



M. scorpioides. fl'illd. Sp. 1. p. 740. Mx. Am. 1. /;. 129. Per*. 

 Sun. 1. p. 156. Ail. Kew. 1. p % 285. Muhl. Catal. p. 19. Nutt. 

 Gen. 1. p. 112. Lindl. Ency. p. 118. 



Mabsh Mvosotis. Vulgo — Marsh Scorpion-grass. Forget-me-not. 

 Ga//.-Oreille de souris, Ger.~ Yergiss mein nicht. Jlisp.-Orcyx de raton. 

 /fool perennial, creeping. Stem 1 to 2 feet long, slender, erector oblique, branch- 

 ed abovo, smoothish, sprinkled with some what appressed hairs. Leaves 1 to 3 jr. 

 ches long, and one third to 3 fourths of an inch wide, lance-oblong or linear-ellin 

 tic, mostly obtuse, narrowed at base, the upper ones sessile, lower ones often petio- 

 late, scabrous when old. Racemes terminating the branches, sometimes in pairs 

 elongating, sccund, without bracts, at first recurved ; pedicels filiform, near hall 

 an inch long, and divergent when in fruit. Calyx somewhat pilose with appressed 

 hairs; segments lanceolate, acute, spreading. Corolla small, bright blue; the 

 throat closed with yellow connivent scales; limb nearly flat. Nuts somewhat 

 compressed, ovate, with a keel like margin, brown, smooth and shining. 



Hab. Swampy rivulets, and spring-heads: common. Fl. May— Sept. /V. July— Oct. 



Ob*. The oblong radical leaves continue vigorously green through the winten 

 especially in swampy fountains, or spring heads. 



2. M. ARVENSis, Sibth. Leaves oval-lanceolate, hairy ; peduncles of 



the fruit somewhat erect, about as long as the closed calyx ; limb of ths 



corolla rather erect, as long as the tube. Beck, Bot. p. 253. 



M. scorpioides, var. a. Mx. Am. 1. p. 129. 



Also, M. verna. Nutt. Gen. 2. Suppl. 



Also, Lycopsis virginica. Pursh, Am. 1. p. 133. Eat? Man. p. 316. 



Not 1 of mild. Pers. nor JYutt. 



FlBLD MYOSOTIS. 



Whole plant grey ish pubescent. Root annual. Stem erect, at first nearly sub 

 pie, at length branching, 3 to 6 and, finally, sometimes 12 inches high, clothed witli 

 spreading hairs. Leaves half an inch to an inch long, and a quarter to half an 

 inch wide, lance-oval, or lance-oblong, rather acute, sessile, scabrous ; the lower 

 ones often lance-obovate, obtuse, and petiolate. Racemes terminal, at first short 

 and crowded, at length elongated, bifarious (not secund), without bracts ; pedicels, 

 ene fourth of an inch long, rather erect. Calyx hispid with spreading and somt- 

 what uncinate hairs; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, orect. Corolla very 

 small, white ; throat closed ; limb somewhat erect. A T w/s smooth, shining, viols; 

 Wrown, in form very like the preceding. 



Mmb. Dry hills : Serpentine ridge : not very common. Fl. May— June. Fr. July- 

 Obs. This species was first observed, here, in 1829. It is generally very dinnniT 

 rive when the flowers begin to appear ; but the racemes finally stretch up, soma* 

 Vines to the height of 12 or 15 inches. There are one or two other species (as (hi 

 gaaua » at present constitute J,) enumerated in the U. State*. 



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