66 PENTAND. MONOG. 



7.3. Statice. Cal. of 1 piece, infundibulifonn, plaited, scariose. 



Petals 5. Fruit invested witii the cal. Seed 1. 

 {Cerastium semidec. ', Spergula arv., subul., panlundra ; De- 



CANDR.) 



6. HEXAGYNIA.' 



76. DiiosERA. Cal. 5-cleft. Pet. 5. Caps. I -celled, 3 — 5-valved, 

 many- seeded. 



7. POLYGYNIA. 



77. Myosurus. Cal. of 5 leaves prolonged at the base. Pe. 

 tals 5, their claws tubular (nectariferous). Capsules (seeds of 

 most authors) collected upon a very long receptacle. (Allied 

 to Rantmculus.) 



{Ranunculus liederaceus, Polyandr.) 



1. MONOGYNIA. 



1. MYOSOTIS. 



{Seeds naked.) 



1. M. sylvalica {IVbod Scorpion-grass), leaves oblongo-lanceo- 

 late with soft hairs, racemes very long lax, pedicels (in fruit) 

 divergenti-patent longer than the 5-fid connivent cal., limb of 

 the cor. expanded longer than the tube. Lefim. Asperif. p. 85. 

 M. scnrpioides y. Sm. Fl. Brit. p. 212^. 



Hab. W^oods, common. F/. summer, l/. . 



Stems 1 foot high, with soft, spreading hairs. Radical leaves, as in all 

 the species, spathulate. Pedicels short in flower, then elongated 

 and patent, at length erecto-patent, twice as long as the cal. Lower 

 hairs upon the cal. rigid, patent, hooked ; upper ones longer, erect. 

 Flou-eis large, bright pale blue, next in size to those of palustris 

 and alpestris, 



2. M. alpestris {Rock Scorpion- grass), leaves oblongo-lanceo- 

 late hairy, racemes short, pedicels (in fruit) patent rather 

 longer than the connivent 5-fid cal,, limb of the cor. expand- 

 ed longer than the tube. ScliuU. Fl. Aust, n. /BS. Lehm. 

 Asp. p. 86. M. rupicola, E.B.t. 2559. 



Hab. Highland mountains, not uncommon, especially on the more 

 elevated ones,G. Don and Mr. J. T. Mackay. Ben Lawers, Maugh. 

 near the summit in great perfection and abundance. Schechallion, 

 Mealgreadha and others of the Breadalbane range, Borrer and 

 Hook. Fl. July, Aug. 1/ . 



Four to six inches high, with patent hairs. Lower leaves on very long 



^ Lightfoot's M. scorpioldes cannot be quoted under any of the individual 

 species here enumerated, because it was intended to include nearly all of 

 them. That specific name should, perhaps, as Wahlenberg has done, have 

 been i'eserved to the M. palustris. 



