. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. BORAGINACEAE. Vol. III. 3. Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill. Field Scor- pion-grass or Mouse-ear. Fig. 3531. Myosotis scorpioides var. arvensis L. Sp. PI. 131. 1753- Myosotis arvensis Hill, Veg. Syst. 7: 55. 1764. Annual or biennial, hirsute-pubescent; stem erect, branched, 6'-i8' high. Basal and lower leaves ob- lanceolate, obtuse, petioled or sessile; stem leaves
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. BORAGINACEAE. Vol. III. 3. Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill. Field Scor- pion-grass or Mouse-ear. Fig. 3531. Myosotis scorpioides var. arvensis L. Sp. PI. 131. 1753- Myosotis arvensis Hill, Veg. Syst. 7: 55. 1764. Annual or biennial, hirsute-pubescent; stem erect, branched, 6'-i8' high. Basal and lower leaves ob- lanceolate, obtuse, petioled or sessile; stem leaves mostly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish at the apex, narrowed to the sessile base, 4'-ii' long, 2"-4" wide; racemes loosely flowered; fruiting pedi- cels longer than the calyx; hairs of the calyx, or some of them, with minutely hooked tips, the lobes equal, erect, or connivent in fruit, triangular-lanceo- late, acute, about as long as the tube; corolla blue or white, the limb concave, i"-ii" broad; nutlets convex on the outer side, somewhat keeled on the inner. In fields, Newfoundland to western Ontario and Minnesota, south to West Virginia. Perhaps not indigenous. Also in Europe. June-Aug. 4. Myosotis versicolor (Pers.) J. E. Smith. Fig. 3532. M. arvensis var. (?) versicolor Pers. Syn. 1: 156. â 1805. Myosotis versicolor J. E. Smith, Engl, Bot. pi. 480. 1813. Annual, hirsute-pubescent, with mostly straight hairs, often much branched above; stems slender, erect or ascending, 4'-i2' high. Leaves oblong, obtuse or obtusish, sessile, or nearly so, or the lower spatulate and narrowed into margined peti- r oles; racemes slender, mostly naked below; pedi- cels shorter than the fruiting calyx, appressed- pubescent, erect; calyx equally 5-cleft, the lobes linear-lanceolate, erect or connivent in fruit, Jj longer than or equalling the tube, the hairs, or some of them, with minutely hooked tips; corolla pale yellow changing to violet and blue, its limb
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