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CLASS Y. PENTANDRIA. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
91. MYOSOTIS. L. Gen. pi. 240. ( Borraginex.J 
Calix 5- cleft. Corolla salver-formed, tube 
short, border flat, 5-lobed, lobes subemargi- 
nate; orifice closed with five convex, con- 
nivent, squamuiae (or small scales). Stigma 
1. Seed smooth or scabrous. — Nutt» 
seoipioiaes. 1. IM. seeds smootli, leaves elliptic-lanceolate j ra- 
ctjnes without bracteas, many-fiowered. — Smith. 
M. palustris, Pursh. 
Icon. FI. Dan. 583. 
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. 
anensis. 2. M. sccds smooth ; caliccs oval-acuminate, very 
hairy, longer than the tube of the corolla ; stem 
very much branched ; racemes in pairs ; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate. — Wzlld. 
Rarely exceeding 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. 
Mouse' ear Scorpion-grass^ 
Ft Scorpion-grass, 
