174 C. BORAGINER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Myositis. 
some of the hairs spreading at base, teeth lanceolate longer than the tube, 
corolla 3-4 in. diam. imb concave. Engl. Bot. t. 2558. M. intermedia, Link. 
Enum. i. 164; DC. Prodr. x. 108; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 239. 
SuRaALPINE KAsuMtR ; Aitchison.—Distris. Cabul and Siberia to N. Africa and 
uro . . . 
Hardly distinguishable from M. sylvatica but by the smaller corolla. Pedicels in 
fruit longer. Calyx-teeth in fruit connivent over the nutlets.—Aitchison's example is 
as near English M. arvensis as may be; there are other Kashmir examples sup 
to be M. arvensis or M. intermedia, but they cannot be distinguished in the her- 
barium from M. sylvatica. 
4. M. stricta, Link. Enum. i. 164; hairs of stem spreading, leaves 
oblong lower subsessile, lower pedicels in fruit shorter than the calyx, calyx 
villous some of the hairs spreading at base, teeth lanceolate longer than the 
tube erect in fruit. DC. Prodr. x. 109; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 239. 
Kasmwrg, Falconer; alt. 5-6000 ft, Thomson; Pangee, Dr. Watt.—DisrRus. 
Cabul, W. Asia, N. Africa, Europe. . 
Stems 3-8 in. erect. Leaves $ by } in., narrowed at both ends. Racemes 3-5 in, 
often reduced nearly to a spike, with closely approximated flowers. 
Srcr. 2. Small, densely tufted herbs. Leaves crowded. Flowers solitary, 
sub-sessile. Nutlets hairy upwards. 
5. M. Hookeri, Clarke; leaves obovate-spathulate villous. 
ALPINE Sikkim, alt. 15-17,000 ft.; Kinehinjow, Lama Kangra, and Phulloong, 
J. D. H. 
Appearing like a small tufted Alpine Cerastium, but with bright blue flowers. 
Stems 1-3 in., repeatedly dichotomous, most densely clothed with leaves in appear- 
ance whorled, lower withering or scale-like. Leaves 4-} in., very obtuse, with much 
soft straight long white hair. Flowers just emergent from the tufts, nearly as ° 
Myosotis arvensis and sylvatica. Nutlets nearly as of M. arvensis, but with some 
erect hairs in the upper half. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
M. nowvsra, Don Prodr. 101; DOC. Prodr. x. 112; roots perennial fusiform; 
stem 1j feet, ascending, simple, hairy; leaves 3 by% in. sessile, elliptic oblong, 
acute, hairy on both surfaces ; racemes paired, short, ebracteate ; calyx-segments ovate 
obtuse, larger than the corolla-tube.—Nepal, Gossainthan, Wallich.—Known only by 
Don's deseription, which does not accord with any of the described species. 
28. LITHOSPERMUM, Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, hispid or rough. Leaves alternate. Flowers white 
blue or yellow, axillary solitary or in terminal bracteate racemes. Sepals 9 
linear. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, throat naked or with 5 small scales; 
lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; anthers 
oblong, obtuse or apiculate. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style filiform or cylindric, 
stigma usually 2-fid. Mutlets 4, erect, ovoid, stony, smooth or rough; scar 
flat, basal; receptacle nearly flat.—Species 40, in the temperate N. hemispheres, 
Africa, and S. America. 
l. L. arvense, Linn.; DC. Prodr. x. 74; strigose, leaves lanceolate 
lower petioled obovate-oblong, corolla white rarely blue tube not longer than 
the calyx, nutlets ovoid-oblong tuberculate. Engl. Bot, t. 123; Boiss. ^7 
tient. iv. 216.  Margarospernum arvense, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot- 
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