. 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. 6. Myosotis virginica (L.) Spring or Early Scorpion-grass. Fig. 3534. Lycopsis virginica L. Sp. PI. 139. 1753. Myosotis verna Nutt. Gen. 2: Add. 1818. Myosotis virginica Prel. Cat. N. Y. 37. 1888. Annual or biennial, hirsute-pubescent or hispid, erect, branched, 3-15' high, the branches erect. Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, sessile, 3"-i2&qu
. 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. 6. Myosotis virginica (L.) Spring or Early Scorpion-grass. Fig. 3534. Lycopsis virginica L. Sp. PI. 139. 1753. Myosotis verna Nutt. Gen. 2: Add. 1818. Myosotis virginica Prel. Cat. N. Y. 37. 1888. Annual or biennial, hirsute-pubescent or hispid, erect, branched, 3-15' high, the branches erect. Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, sessile, 3"-i2" long, obtuse, or the lower spatulate and narrowed into short peti- oles; racemes usually bracted at the base, strict; pedicels ascending or erect, or slightly spreading at the apex, shorter than the fruiting calyx; calyx some- what 2-lipped, unequally S-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, acute, longer than the tube, connivent in fruit,' very hispid, the hairs, or most of them, with minutely hooked tips; corolla white, the limb \\" broad or less; nutlets convex on the back, slightly keeled and margined on the inner side. On dry hills and banks, Maine and Ontario to Minne- sota, Florida and Texas. Forget-ine-not. April-June. Myosotis macrosperma Engelm., of the Southern States, with larger flowers and fruit, the ripe calyx nodding or spreading, ranging north to Virginia and Kentucky, appears to be a race of this species. 12. LITHOSPERMUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 132. 1753. Annual or perennial, erect branching or rarely simple, pubescent hirsute or hispid herbs, with alternate entire leaves, and small or large, white yellow or blue flowers in leafy-bracted spikes or racemes. Calyx 5-parted or S-cleft, the segments or lobes narrow. Corolla funnel- form or salverform, 5-lobed, naked, pubescent or crested in the throat, the lobes entire or erose-denticulate, the tube sometimes pubescent at the base within. Stamens 5, included, inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments short. Ova
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