ASPEEUGO. — CYNOGLOSSUM. 
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f laments rather long. Style simple. Nutlets smooth, in- 
flated, rather drupaceous, attached laterally near their base 
by aflat surface ; seeds free. 
10. LiTHOSPERJtfUM. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. funnel- 
shaped ; throat naked or with 5 minute scales. Stam. 
included in tube ; filaments very short. Style simple. 
Nutlets smooth or tubercular, stony, attached by a truncate 
flat base. 
11. Myosotis. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. convolute lit the hud, 
salvershaped ; throat closed with scales ; limb 5-fid, blunt. 
Stam. included ; filaments very short. Style simple. Nut- 
lets smooth, convex externally, keeled within, attached 
by a minute lateral spot near their base. — Distinguished 
from all the other genera by the convolute corolla. 
Tribe I. Cynoglossece. 
1. Aspeeu'go Linn. Madwort. 
tl. A. procum'bens (L.). — E. B. 661. — St. procumbent, angu- 
lar, rough, with short deflexed bristjes. L. oblong, rough, 
hispid, lower ones stalked, upper sessile. Fl. small, axillary, 
solitary, blue, upon short peduncles. Col. of the fr. much en- 
larged. — Rich waste ground, rare. A. VI. VII. E. S. 
2. Cynoglos'sum Linn. Hound's -tongue. 
1. C. officinale (L.) ; 1. downy acute, lower 1. elliptic contract- 
ing into a petiole, upper I. lanceolate narrowed below subcordate 
half -clasping, nutlets with thickened prominent margin. — E. B. 
921. — About 2 feet high. Covered with soft adpressed hairs. 
Cor. dull crimson, veiny ; veins disappearing in drying. Xut- 
lets flat in front. Fetid, rarely [var. suhgiabrum Herat] sub- 
glabrous and nearly scentless. — Waste ground. B. VI. VII. 
E. S. I. 
2. C. montdnum (L.) ; I. slightly hairy acute nearly glabrous 
and shining above rough beneath, inferior oblong narrowed 
into a long petiole, upper I. lanceolate slightly narroived below 
clasping, nutlets without thickened edge. — C. sylvaticum Sm. 
E. B. 1642. — Clothed with straight spreading hairs. Cor. 
reddish, changing to blue. L. sometimes very rough. — Shady 
situations. B. VI. VII. E. I. 
