BORAGE FAMILY. Boraginacese. 



only the lowest with margined stems. The showy flowers 

 trumpet-shaped with five lobes ; rarely they are white. 

 1-2 feet high. On river meadows and along river-banks 

 from N. Y. and N. J., south to S. Car., west to Minn., 

 Neb. , and Kan. 



For et-me not ^"^ * rue f r g e t-me-not of gardens, 

 Myosotis escaped from cultivation, and found in 



palustris wet ground or marshes. A perennial with 



Light blue slender, sprawling, fine-hairy steins, and 

 May-July gray-green oblong lance-shaped leaves, 

 stemless or nearly so. The small light blue flowers with 

 a golden eye, in small clusters somewhat curved. 6-15 

 inches high. Beside brooks and in wet places from Me. , 

 south to Pa., and west. A native of Europe and Asia. 



A species similar in many respects to 

 Smaller ^ ne f ore g Om g with the fine-hairiness 



Forget-me-not . ,. , 



Myosotis laxa bend mg close to stem and leaf, the leaves 

 blunt and oblong, and the very small and 

 pale light blue flowers on long stems, loosely clustered. 

 The calyx lobes as long as the flower-tube. 6-19 inches 

 high. Wet places. Me., south to Tenn., west to Wis. 



An annual or biennial species, with very 

 get- nfL- not bristly-hairy stems and leaves, the latter 

 Myosotis vema oblong and obtuse. The white flowers 

 White small; the calyx unequally five-cleft, 



April-June bristly, with some of the bristles hooked 

 at the tips. 3-15 inches high. On dry banks from Me., 

 south, and west to Minn, and Tex. 



A rough-hairy annual or biennial, with 

 uthospemum erect branching stems and foliage resem- 

 arvense bling that of Myosotis, but a brighter 



White green. The small white flowers scattered 



May-August on ^ e S pj]j eg an( j stemless or nearly so. 

 6-18 inches high. Sandy roadsides and fields from Me. , 

 south to Ga., and west to Mich, and Kan. 



A similar taller species with a much- 



Lithospermum branched stem, gray-green, few-veined, 



Cream white rough, and stemless leaves rather broad 



lance-shaped. The cream white flowers 



with corollas funnel-formed and a little longer than the 



five-pointed hairy calyx. 1-3 feet high. New Eng., 



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