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`. I Borage Family ·(B0raginace`ae){ ‘ _
‘ I — Mouse-ear (Myosotis cm·vevzsi.s·).——A boatgshaped, glossy, black, Q »
`I I seed, with a bluish white central region of indefinite outline on one ‘ ·
‘     side. Elongate, margined, rounded at one end, pointed at the "
i` .   I   other. Keeled along one face (that on which whitish area occurs),
i.. l the opposite face convex. Length, 0.05; greatest width, 0.03; °
  I   i thickness, 0.02 inch. Frequently seen among red` clover seeds. Fig. if
  F 19,12. I
    I The plant is rather slight, annual or biennial, generally with a
_   I few branches, bearing small blue flowers, expanding about 0.12
_,   ° inch. Leaves without petioles, lanceolate, orithe lower spatulate,
_   5 I pubescent. It has been observed at Lexington}.;
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    l I Stickseed (Lappula lapgmlrl).—A small·ash—gray seed, acutely ‘ .
  I pointed at one end, widely rounded and `blunt at the other, the ‘ i
  I whole surface roughened with small blunt tubercles `of irregular
    I size, thoseiat the margin larger. A line or ridge runs along one
    I face, widening and terminating in the expanded extremity. Length .
_.,'     from 0.08 to 0.10 inch; greater diamaeter from` 0.05 to 0.06 inch.
  I Obtained from samples of red clover seed. Fig. 19,·F. r
  I An annual, a foot or a little more high, with linear, sessile
  _’.‘   leaves above, below with petioled spatulate leaves. Flowers very
    I small, blue. Introduced from Europe. _ _
      Verbena *Family (V€T`b€|"|BC€B€)·
    Nettle—leavedI Vervian (Ve2_·bc·22a 1w·ticlfolia).—An elongate -
  I uniform reddish brown seed with three faces and three angles, two
    of the faces being smaller and flat, the third, larger and strongly
    convex; the latter bears a couple of fine longitudinal raised lines,
    and part of the surface is obscurely reticulate with raised lines.
    The SORT Shows as a white dot at one extremity. Length, 0,07, dia-
    meter, 0.03 inch. Quite often four of the seeds remain applied
  I closely by the fiat faces to each other. Seeds are found with those _ . _
  of red clover. Fig. 20, A, B. .
  A common plant in grass land and about dwellings, reaching a
  height of several feet on good soil, with rather long lanceolate
  toothed leaves with short petioles. lt branches quite extensively,
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