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footstalks. Floii-ers so compact as to be almost capitate, then 

 lengthened into racemes. Pedicels after flowering erect, in fruit 

 •patent, a little longer than the cal. Hairs of the cal. more or less 

 hooked at their extremity. Flowers large, very bright blue. 



3. M. palustris {Marsh 'Scorpion-grnss, Forget me not), leaves 

 oblongo-lanceolate rough with sliort mostly apprcssed hairs, 

 racemes rather short, peduncles (in fruit) divergent twice as 

 long as the 5-toothed patent cal., limb of the cor. expanded 

 longer than the tube. E. B. i. 1973. 



/3. Racemes below leafy. M. repcns, G. Don. MSS. hied. 



Hab. Ditches and sides of rivers, most abundant. /3. Moist hills about 

 Glasg. B.Don; and Ochil hills, G. and I). J)o/?. Fl. summer 

 months. 1/ . 



A very beautiful though common plant, and considered to be the em- 

 blem of friendship" in almost every country in civilized Europe. 

 About 1 foot high. Root creeping'in the mud and often throwing 

 up runners, as in the M. repens of D. Don, which has moreover 

 bracteas on the racemes, or rather small leaves between the lower 

 pedicels (not inserted at their very base), and sometimes white or 

 yellow flowers. Hairs of the cal. erect, straight ; those of the leaves 

 as well as the stem (though on this latter they are mostly aj)pressed) 

 vary in length and direction, especially in cultivation, as is ob- 

 served by Mr. Hopkirk. Flowers very large, pale blue. — ^The cat., 

 with its short but expanded teeth when in fruit, and its generally 

 few but erect and appressed hairs, distinguishes this species. 



4. M. arvensh {Field Scorpion-grass), leaves oblongo-lanceo- 

 late hairy, racemes very long, pedicels (in fruit) patent twice 

 the length of the 5 -cleft and closed cal., limb of the cor. 

 erecto-patent about as long as the tube. E. B. I. 2.558. 



Hab. Fields and waste places. Fl. June, Jidy. ©. 



Six to eight inches higli, hairy with patent rather rigid hairs. Pedicels 

 twice as long as the fruit-bearing cal. Lower hairs of the cal.patent, 

 hooked. — The annual root and small flowers with long pedicels, 

 when in fruit, are the characteristics of this species. 



5. M. versicolor {Tjelloiu and Hue Scorpion-grass), leaves ob- 

 longo-lanceolate hairy, racemes very long, pedicels (in fruit) 

 erecto-patent shorter than the 5 -cleft acute closed cal., limb 

 of the cor. patent shorter than the tube. E. B. t. 480. 



Hab. Dry sterde waste places. FZ. June, July. 0. 



From 2 to 8 inches high. Hairs, long, divergent. Lower hairs of the 

 cal. hooked and patent. — Well marked by the annual root, small 

 yellow and blue flowers (which, according to Lehman, always re- 

 tain their respective colours, and do not change from yellow to 

 blue), and above all by the short pedicels and long cal. 



Scarcely any two authors are agreed with regard to the species of 

 Myosoiis. I have followed Lehman, who has so admirably' illus- 

 trated the difficult family of AsperifolicE in a work lately published 

 in Germany. 



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