Mountains, which are moreover all hirsute. Dr. Gray further 
remarks, that those specimens with the stamens inserted low 
down have all short styles, which is contrary to the dimor- 
phism of the Boraginee. It will be observed that in our 
figure the stamens are inserted on the throat of the corolla, 
and the style is long. 
M. alpina was imported by Messrs. Backhouse of York, 
who flowered it in May last. 
Dxscr. Perennial, glabrous, or clothed more or less with 
soft hirsute pubescence. Sfems simple, erect, sparingly 
leafy, slender. Leaves sessile, chiefly cauline, one to one 
and a half inches long, linear-oblong or spathulate, radical 
often broader, acute or obtuse, upper surface smooth or 
muricate, margin ciliate. Cymes lax-flowered. Flowers 
drooping, one-third to two-thirds of an inch long; bracts 
leafy ; pedicels short, slender. Calyx shorter than the corolla- 
tube, 5-cleft to the middle or lower, segments oblong and 
obtuse, or lanceolate and acute. Corolla light or dark blue, 
tube cylindric; limb campanulate, very shortly 5-lobed, lobes _ 
rounded ; throat naked or pilose. Stamens inserted at the 
base of the throat or lower down ; filaments as broad as the 
oblong anthers. Style short or long. —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, pistil and disk :—all magnified. 
