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horizontal, of a beautiful enamelled sky blue, with white elevated 

 ribs at the base of each rounded, scarcely notched, segment ; the 

 valves of the mouth yellow. The Jiower-buds are of a fine pink. 

 Style the length of the tube. Stigma capitate, umbilicated. 

 Seeds ovate, compressed, obtuse, blackish, highly polished, 

 somewhat bordered. 

 This most elegant plant, the Forget-me-not, or emblem of affec- 

 tion, among the Germans, is the most distinct, and best known, 

 example of its genus, though too long confounded with other 

 common species. The perennial creeping roots, shining green 

 herbage, and enamelled blossoms, are all strikingly characteristic. 

 Linnaeus records its being hurtful to sheep ; which, like a similar 

 report of Hydrocotyle vulgaris, may have arisen from those ani- 

 mals suffering from frequenting the wet situations of these plants. 



2. M. ccespitosa. Tufted Water Scorpion-grass. 



Seeds smooth. Leaves and calyx besprinkled with erect 

 bristles. Clusters leafy at the base. Calyx funnel-shaped, 

 with broad spreading teeth. Limb of the corolla the 

 length of the tube. Root fibrous. 



M. caespitosa. " Schulz Stargard. suppl. 2. Reichenbach Amain. 

 1. 26." according to Dr. Panzer of Nuremberg. 



In watery places. 



Near Tunbridge ; and at Binfield, Berks. Mr. T. F. Forster. 



Perennial, or biennial. May, June. 



Root fibrous, or slightly creeping. Stems numerous, a foot high, 

 crowded, erect, much branched, leafy and many-flowered. Whole 

 herb of a weaker, paler, more lax habit than the foregoing, having 

 always a leaf or two at the base of each cluster. The Jlowers are 

 smaller, paler, and far less conspicuous. Calyx rather more 

 deeply 5 -cleft, with fewer, more dispersed and lax, bristles. 

 Seeds like the last. The plant remains unchanged by cultiva- 

 tion, and is doubtless a very distinct species. 



3. M. intermedia, Trailing Hairy Scorpion-grass. 



Seeds smooth. Leaves hairy. Clusters leafless. Tube of 

 the calyx clothed with hooked bristles ; segments with 

 straight upright hairs. Root creeping. Stems decumbent. 



M. intermedia. " Link. Reichenbach Amcen. 1. 22." Dr. Panzer. 



M. scorpioides. FL Dan. £.583, largest figure. 



In dry shady places. 



In a small wood at Edgefield, near Holt, Norfolk, in a perfectly 

 dry situation. Rev. R. B.Francis. On hedge banks near Nor- 

 wich, towards Keswick. Mr. J. Backhouse. 



Perennial. April, May, 



