WHITE GROUP 



tubular, 5-lobed. Flowers, short-pedicelled, in flat-topped clusters 

 whose peduncles are shorter than the petioles. Plants smooth- 

 stemmed, from rootstocks which are thick and indented by the 

 stout leaf-stalks; 1 foot high. Leaves, large, about 4 inches broad, 

 palmately lobed and veined, petioled, heart-shaped at base, ir- 

 regularly toothed, the root-leaves sometimes with 2 or 3 small 

 side-leaflets. Summer. 



New England, westward, and to the mountains of Virginia. 



H. <virginianum is taller, 2 feet high or less, with peduncles longer 

 than the petioles. Leaves pinnately cut into 5 to 7 divisions, 

 sharply toothed, oblong to lance-shaped. Flowers, white, or with 

 a bluish tinge, appearing through the summer. 



H, macrophyttum has white flowers clustered in a head upon a 

 rough, hairy stem. Leaves, oblong, cut into many irregular di- 

 visions, all coarsely toothed, the lower ones 8 to 14 inches long. 

 Virginia, southward and westward. 



Spring or Early Scorpion Grass 



Myosotis virginica. — Family, Borage. Color, white. This is 

 the only white species of forget-me-not. We think of the flower 

 as blue, and in the blue section the genus will be more at length 

 described. This species is very bristly and sticky. Flowers, 

 small, in one-sided racemes at the top of erect stems, 3 to 15 

 inches high. Leaves, obtuse or oblong, near the base of the stem, 

 quite hairy, almost bristly. April to July. 



Dry and rocky woods and hills, Maine to Florida and Texas. 



Common Gromwell 



Lithospermum officinale* (Name means "stony seed," from the 

 hard, bony nutlets.) — Family, Borage. Color, white, with some- 

 times a yellowish tinge. Calyx and corolla tubular, with spread- 

 ing, 5 -cleft border, crested or with 5 scales in the throat. Leaves, 

 rough above, soft beneath, broadly lance-shaped, thin, tapering at 

 apex, distinctly veined. Stem, 2 to 4 feet high, leafy. Flowers, 

 in leafy racemes, generally single. May to August. 



Perennial herbs, with red roots. Roadsides and waste 

 fields from New York northward and westward. 



Corn Gromwell. Pearl Plant 



L. arvense. — Color, nearly white. The leaves of this species are 

 long, lance-shaped, sessile, or short-petioled. Flowers, in spikes. 

 May to August. 



Dry fields and waste places, Maine to Georgia and westward. 



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