aginary resemblance of the blue flowers to the eye of the wolf;
a mere weed.
L. Virginica. L. A small, hispid plant with its lower leaves
spatulate, and its racemes solitary ; found in dry woods.
E chium. L. 5 . 1 .
E . vulgare. L. Viper’s Bugloss. Corolla nearly bell-form
with a short tube, large and blue in lateral spikes ; stem erect,
bristly*; hills ; June.
A very handsome plant; named from the Greek for viper.
Onosmodium. L. 5. 1.
O. hispidum. L. From the Greek, for its resemblance to
Onosma, a genus of this order ; calyx deeply 5-parted, with linear
segments ; hills ; August ; a weed of our country.
Myosotis. L. 5. 1.
From the Greek for mouse and ear, on account of the shape
and velvety surface of the leaves of one species.
J\I. arvensis. Sibth. Forget-me-not. This is like M. scor-
pioides, L ., and called by the same English name ; introduced
from England ; a pubescent, grayish plant, not a foot high,- with
small white flowers, with a salver-shaped corolla, short tube, and
flat border ; sometimes called scorpion grass, from its stem of
flowers bending over in the form of a scorpion’s ta il; sandy
fields; June.
J\f. palustris. Ph. Water Mouse-Ear. Grows along ditches
and banks of streams, with scattered, lanceolate, broad leaves,
sessile and smooth ; racemes of flowers rolled backwards at the
end ; June to October. Seems to be indigenous ; near Boston.
J\f. Virginiana. L. Field Mouse-Ear. This is the Rochelia
of some authors ; a troublesome weed in fields, among wheat, &c.;
with an erect, hairy, branched stem, and large, lanceolate, rough-
ish, hairy leaves ; July.
ORDER 226. HYDROPHYLLEiE. T he W a t e r -leaf
T r ib e .
Calyx inferior, 5 or 10-divided, with a 1-petalled, 5-lobed,
usually regular corolla, and 5 stamens ; ovary superior, 1-celled,
and bifid stigma on the single style ; fruit in a capsule ; leaves
opposite or alternate ; roughish.
H ydrophyllum. L. 5. 1. Water-leaf.
From the Greek for water and leaf, because the cavity of the
leaf often holds a drop of water in the spring ; a North American
genus of only two species ; abounds over the hills and valleys of
Berkshire County, often along dry hedges and borders of woods ;
of no known use; rather showy.
H. Virginicum. L. Stem about a foot high, nearly smooth,
with pinnate and pinnatifid leaves ; clusters of white and blue
flowers ; woods ; June.
H. Canadense. L. Stem about a foot high, hairy, with large,
broad, 5 or 7-lobed leaves, cordate at tbebase; flowers clustered,
and colored like the other ; woods and hedges ; June.
TRIBE II. GYMNOSPERM2E,
(Or having naked seeds.)
All the genera belong to the Trees and Shrubs ; the species
are not herbaceous.