PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. 251 



Root long and creeping. Herb of a dull green, copiously clothed 

 with lax spreading liairs, sometimes minutely callous at their 

 origin. Stems several, very hairy, leafy, more or less branched, 

 from 4 to 10 inches high ; procumbent at the lower part. Leaves 

 oblong ) the lowermost often obovate, and tapering at the base. 

 Clusters in pairs or solitary, on terminal, leafless, upright stalks. 

 Hairs on the general and partial stalks erect, but not close- 

 pressed. Partial stalks when in fruit longer than the calyx, 

 spreading not quite horizontally. Calyx bell-shaped in the lower 

 half, and plentifully clothed with spreading, pcirtly brownish, 

 hooked bristles ; in the upper half deeply 5 -cleft, the lanceolate 

 converging segments covered with straight, erect, silvery hairs. 

 Cor. bright blue, almost equal in size and beauty to that of 

 M. palustris. ' Seeds oval, brown, highly polished. 



4. M. sijlvatica. Upright Wood Scorpion-grass. 



Seeds smooth. Leaves hairy. Clusters with a leaf at the 

 base. Tube of the calyx clothed with hooked bristles ; 

 segments with straight upright hairs. Root fibrous. 

 Stems erect. 



M. sylvatica. Leiim. Asper'if. So. Hook. Scot. 66. 



M. scorpioides sylvatica. Elirh. Herb. 31. 



M. scorpioides y. Fl. Br. 212. 



M. scorpioides latifolia hirsuta. Merr. Pin. 82. Dill, in Rail Syn. 

 229. t. 9./. 2. 



Scorpiurus n. 591 /3. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 262. 



In woods and dry shady places, frequent. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root fibrous, branching at the summit. Stems one or more^ erect, 

 12 or 18 inches high, branched at the upper part, leafy, angular, 

 clothed ivithsoft spreading hairs. Leaves oblong, obtuse, clothed 

 ' and fringed with similar hairs, slightly callous at their base ; the 

 lowermost obovate, each tapering into a footstalk. Clusters 

 terminal, mostly solitary, very long and straight when in fruit, 

 each with a sessile, ovate, acute leaf, at the base of its stalk. 

 Partial stalks moderately spreading, somewhat longer than the 

 calyx, and clothed, like the common stalks, with short, upright 

 or incurved, hairs. Tube of the calyx bell- shaped, densely 

 clothed with fine, spreading, hooked bristles ; limb longer than 

 the tube, in 5 deep, unequal, lanceolate segments, rough with 

 erect, straight, brownish-tipped hairs. Corolla bright blue ; 

 limb horizontal, in .) obovate, flat segments, longer than the 

 pale tube. The flowers vary a little in size, and yield in beauty 

 to those of M. palustris. Tab. 583 of the Flora ])unlca is, as 

 Dr.Lehmann observes, not a good figure of this species, being un- 

 questionably, I think, drawn from the preceding, which escaped 

 his notice. ' DiUtnius's figure, in Ray's ^ynoiisis, is a good re- 



