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CLASS V. PENTANDEJA. 

 ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 



91. MYOSOTIS. L. Gen. pi. 240. ( Borragineae-J 



Calix 5 -cleft. Corolla salver-formed, tube 

 short, border flat, 5-lobed, lobes subemargi- 

 nate ; orifice closed with live convex, con- 

 nivent, squamulas (or small scales). Stigma 

 1. Seed smooth or scabrous. — JVutt* 



scorpioides. 1. M. seeds smooth, leaves elliptic-lanceolate; ra- 

 cemes without bracteas, many-flowered* — Smith. 

 M. palustris, Pursh. 

 Icon. Fl. ban. 583. 



Mouse- ear Scorpion-grass, 



A beautiful little plant, with small sky-blue flowers. The 

 buds, just before opening, are of a pink hue, which, immedi- 

 ately after the flowers are opened, changes to blue. In all 

 cold rivulets and field drains, common ; sometimes in ditches. 

 Perennial. May to September. 



arrensis. 2. M. seeds smooth ; calices oval-acuminate, very 

 hairy, longer than the tube of the corolla ; stem 

 very much branched ; racemes in pairs ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate. — Willd. 



Field Scorpion-grass. 



Rarely exceeding ten inches in height, and all over very 

 hairy. Flowers, small, white ; I have never seen them blue, 

 as Pursh describes them. In shady woods near Camden, 

 Jersey ; in the fields below the navy yard, not far from the 

 Delaware ; and in fields of the Neck, frequent. On the high 

 rocks a mile or two south of the Falls of Schuylkill, east side 

 of the river, occasionally met with. Annual. May. 



