PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. 253 



representation of M. sylvatica, which, as Merrett remarks, is 

 very common in woods in Kent. 



5. M. alpestris. Rock Scorpion-grass. 



Seeds smooth. Leaves hairy, radical ones but half the 

 length of their footstalks. Clusters forked at the base, 

 leafless. Calyx deeply five-cleft, clothed with upright 

 hairs ; the lowermost incurved. Root fibrous, tufted, 



M. alpestris. Lehm. Asperif. 86. Hook. Scot. 66. 



M. alpina. Don H. Br. 205. 



M. rupicola. Engl. hot. v. 36. t. 2559. Comp. 33. 



Lycopsis montana coerulea. Barrel. Ic. t. 404. 



On the mountains of Scotland. 



Plentiful on the summit of Ben Lawers, and other lofty Highland 

 mountains. Mr. G. Don, Mr. J. Mackay, fyc. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root fibrous, or slightly creeping, blackish. Stems several, from 

 3 to 5 inches high, erect, simple, roundish, leafy, clothed with 

 spreading hairs. Leaves ovate-oblong j the upper ones rather 

 pointed ; radical ones elliptical, on linear smooth footstalks, 

 twice or thrice their own length. Clusters either terminal, in 

 pairs, on a leafless stalk, with a solitary flower at the fork, or 

 axillary and solitary ; all dense and revolute when in flower, 

 subsequently elongated ; their stalks all clothed with erect or 

 close short silky hairs. Calyx in 5 deep, unequal, linear-lanceo- 

 late segments, covered with similar upright hairs, those on the 

 very short tube only being slightly curved. Flowers blue, full as 

 large and ornamental as in M. palustris, pale pink in the bud, 

 their horizontal limb much longer than the very short tube ; 

 valves white. 



I have this from M. Villars as his alpine variety of M. scorpioides. 

 Haller, by his reference to Barrelier, seems to confound it with 

 the palustris, from which none can be more distinct. 



** Moots annual. 



6. M. arvensis. Field Scorpion-grass. 



Seeds smooth. Leaves hairy. Clusters stalked, with one 

 remote axillary flower. Calyx half-five-cleft, clothed with 

 spreading hairs ; those of the tube hooked. Root fibrous. 



M. arvensis. Roth Germ. v. 2. p. 1. 222. mild. Sp. PI v. 1. 747. 



With. 225. Sibth.68. Abbot 40. Hook. Scot. 67. Engl. Bot, 



v. 36. t. 2558. Comp. 33. Lehm. Asperif. 90. 

 M. scorpioides arvensis. Linn. Sp. PI. 188. Fl. Br. 212 a. Huds. 



78. Relh.75. Ehrh.HerbAX. Beitr. v. 5. 176. Bull. Fr. r.355, 



incorrect. 

 M. scorpioides hirsuta. Raii Syn. 229, 



