PENTAKDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. 249 



Herbaceous ; hairy or bristly. Leaves scattered, undivided, 

 entire, single-ribbed. Clusters terminal, many-flowered; 

 revolute in the bud. Cor. bright blue, or yellowisji ; red 

 before expansion, Seeds various ; highly polished ni all 

 our species. 



* Roots 2^erenni(d^ or jierhaps biennial. 



1. M, pahistris. Great Water Scorpion-grass. 

 Seeds smooth. Leaves and calyx roughish with close bristles. 

 Clusters leafless. Calyx funnel-shaped, with short broad 

 spreading teeth. Limb of the corolla horizontal, longer 

 than the tube. Root creeping. 

 M. palustris. Roth Germ. v. 1. 87. v. 2. p. 1. 221 Comp 33, 

 Engl.Bot.v.2S.t.\973. inth.'Z2b. HullA6. Relh. ed. \. /6. 

 Sibth.QS. Jbhot ^iO. Hook. Scot. 67. Lehm. Jsperif. S8. 

 M. scorpioides palustvis. Ger. Em. 337./ Linn. Sp. PL 188. H. 

 Br. 212 $. Huch.. 78. Curt. LoncJ.fasc. 3. t. 13. Han Syn. 229. 

 Ehrh. ilerb.2\. ,. , r -i 



M. scorpioides. mild. Sp. PL r. 1. 746. PJahlenb. Lapp. o4. 

 Scorpiurus n. 59 1 a. HalL Hist. l\ 1 . 261 . 

 S. palustris perennis, viridioribus foliis. Mons. v. 3. 451. sect. 11. 



^31.f. 4. 

 Echium 'scorpioides palustre. Bauh. Pin. 254. 

 Ana2:airLS aquatica. Pass. Ic. p. ult.f. 49. 

 Cynoglossa minor. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 176./. 

 In clear rivulets and ditches, common, 

 Perennial. June— August. 



Roots very long, creeping, blackish, with numerous tufts ot strong 

 fibres. Herb bright green, rather succulent, from 6 to 12 or 18 

 inches high. Stems ascending obliquely, round, branching, leafy, 

 either nearly smooth, or clothed with, more or less spreading, 

 bristlv hairs. Leaves sessile, nearly uniform, elliptic-oblong, 

 bluntish, U or 2 inches long, clothed on both sides with small 

 close-pressed bristles, which scarcely render them rough to the 

 sight or the touch. Clusters many-flowered, 2 or 3 together, on 

 a terminal leafless stalk, or elongation of each branch 3 each 

 general and partial stalk, as well as both sides of the calyx,hemg 

 clothed with erect, or close-pressed, short, straight, simple, rigid, 

 pale uniform, bristly hairs. Partial stalks at first crowded into 

 a dense revolute spike, which unrolls gradually, and, after flower- 

 ing is greatly elongated, the stalks spreading almost horizontally 

 as the seeds ripen, forming a very lax straight cluster Calyx 

 about half the length of each partial stalk, after the flower is 

 past • bell-shaped at the base ; the limb divided half way down 

 into 5 broad, triangular, rather expanding, segments. Tube of 

 the corolla about as long as the calyx, whitish 3 limb longer. 



