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smootliish ; leaves rough-pubescent, oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong ; calyx 

 moderately 5-cieft, shorter than the spreading pedicels ; corolla (rather large in 

 the genuine plant) pale blue with a yellow eye. — Nat. from Eu. near Boston, 

 escaping from gardens. — Varies into smaller-flowered forms, among which high 

 authorities rank M. csespitosa, and (with yet more reason) the intermediate 



Vai\ laxa. (M. laxa, Lehm.) Creeping base of the stem short; flowers a 

 third or half smaller ; pedicels longer. — Wet places, northward. (Eu.) 

 * * Calyx closing or the lobes erect in fruit, clothed with spreading hairs, a part of 



them minutely hooked or glandular at the apex: corolla small: root annual or 



biennial. 



2. M. arvensis, Hoffm. Hirsute with spreading hairs, erect or ascend- 

 ing (6'- 15' high); leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutish; racemes naked at the base 

 and stalked; corolla blue, rarely white; pedicels spreading in fruit and longer than 

 the 5-clefi equal calyx. (M. intermedia, Link. M. scorpioides, var. arvensis, L.) 

 — Fields, &c. : not very common, perhaps not indigenous. (Eu.) 



3. M. verna, Nutt. Bristly-hirsute, branched from the base, erect (4' - 

 12' high) ; leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or the lower spatulate-oblong ; racemes 

 leafy at tlie base ; corolla very small, white, with a short limb ; pedicels in fruit 

 erect and oppressed at the base, usually abruptly bent outwards near the apex, 

 rather shorter than tlie deeply 5-cleft unequal (somewhat 2-lipped) very hispid calyx. 

 (M. inflexa, Engelm.) — Dry hills : rather common. May -July. 



4. M. versicolor, Pers. More slender than the last, simple at the base 

 racemes loose, mostly naked at the base ; flowers almost sessile ; corolla pale yel- 

 hw changing to blue or violet ; calyx deeply and equally 5-cleft. — Fields, Delaware, 

 W. M. Canby. (Nat. from Eu.) 



8. ECHINOSPERMITM, Swartz. Stickseed. 



Corolla salver-form, short, nearly as in Myosotis, but imbricated in the bud, 

 the throat closed with 5 short scales. Stamens included. Nutlets erect, fixed 

 laterally to the base of the style or central column, triangular or compressed, 

 the back armed with 1-3 marginal rows of prickles which are barbed at the 

 apex, otherwise naked. — Rough-hairy and grayish herbs, with small blue flow- 

 ers in bracted (so called) racemes ; ours annuals or biennials, flowering all 

 summer. (Name compounded of ex'ivos, a hedgehog, and aneppa, seed.) 



1. E. Lapp ex a, Lehm. Stem upright, branched above (1°- 2° high) ; the 

 short pedicels erect ; leaves lanceolate, rough-hairy ; nutlets each with a double- 

 row of prickles at the margins, and rough-tubercled on the back. — Waste places ; 

 common. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. E. Redowskii, Lehm. Nutlets with a single marginal row of stout 

 prickles, and granulate-roughened on the back : otherwise much like the last. 

 (E. patulum, Hook. ) — St. Paul's, Minnesota, and on the plains westward. 



9. CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. Hound 's-Tongue. 



Corolla funnel-form ; the tube about the length of the 5-parted calyx ; the 

 throat closed with 5 obtuse scales ; the lobes rounded. Stamens included. Nut- 



