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The Appendaged Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendic- 

 ulatum Michaux) is rough-hairy all over; the flowers violet to purple 

 and one-half to two-thirds of an inch long with short, reflexed appendages 

 between the calyx lobes. The Broad-leaved Waterleaf (Hydro- 

 phyllum canadense Linnaeus) has leaf blades nearly orbicular, 

 palmately five to nine-lobed and the entire plant smooth or nearly so. 



Borage Family 



Boraginaceae 



Virginia Cowslip; Bluebells 



Mertensia virginica (Linnaeus) De Candolle 



Plate 181 



Stems erect or nearly erect, simple or somewhat branched, i to 2 

 feet tall from a perennial root; smooth and rather stout. Leaves oblong, 

 the upper ones sessile, blunt at the apex, 2 to 5 inches long, the lower leaves 

 tapering into margined petioles, obovate in shape. Flowers blue-purple, 

 or blue turning purple with age, showy, about 1 inch long, in short racemes 

 forming a terminal corymbose inflorescence; calyx lobes five, oblong- 

 lanceolate, blunt; corolla trumpet -shaped with a slender tube and a five- 

 lobed, plaited limb, pubescent at the base within but not crested in the 

 throat; stamens five, attached to the inside of the corolla tube. 



In low meadows and along streams, central New York and southern 

 Ontario to New Jersey, South Carolina, Minnesota and Kansas. Flowering 

 in April and A I ay. 



Forget-me-not; Mouse-ear; Scorpion Grass 



Myosotis scorpioides Linnaeus 



Plate 182a 



A small, slender plant with perennial rootstocks or stolons freely 

 rooting at the nodes; stems pubescent, decumbent below, the ends ascending 

 or erect, 6 to 18 inches long. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, blunt, 

 narrowed at the base, 1 to 3 inches long, only the lower ones petioled. 

 Flowers in several or many-flowered loose racemes, curving over at the 



