PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. 



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POLYGYNIA. 



MYOSU'RUS. Cal. 5-leaved : Nectaries 5 ; tongue 



shaped : Seeds numerous. 



[Ranunculus hederaceus.] 



MONOGYNIA. 



MYOSO'TIS. Blossom salver-shaped, 5-cleft, 



lobes notched : mouth closed with projecting 

 scales : nuts 4, imperforated. 



M, Seeds smooth: calyxes inversely egg-shaped, blunt, palus'tris, 



smooth, as long as the tube or the blossom : leaves 

 spear-shaped. 



Curt. \63-Kmph. 11. M. palustris-E. hot. 480, the nn- 

 coloured jigure-Ger. em. 337- 3-Park. 691. 8-#. ox. xi. 

 31. row 2. 4. 



From 6 to 12 inches high. Flowers in a long spike-like 

 bunch, twisted spirally at the top. Bloss. fine blue, valves 

 forming a bright yellow eye, convex above and covering the 

 anthers which are in the hollow underneath. 



Mouse-ear Scorpion-grass* Myosotis 



^inn. Wet ditches* sprines, rivulets, c 



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M. Seeds smooth: calyxes egg-shaped, tapering to a arven'sis. 



point, very hairy, longer than the tube of the blos- 

 som: leaves egg-spear-shaped. 



E> hot. ±m-Kniph. 11. M. ar<vensts-Fl. dan. 583-Raj Syn* 

 ' 9- 2. at p. 128. Dod.72.~LoL obs. 245. 4-Ger. em. 33J. 



4-ParL 691* 7~M* ox. xi. 31* row 2. l-J. B. iii. 589. 



Z-Walc. 5. 



A smaller plant than the preceding, and the blossoms much 



smaller 



figured 



In dry 



situations the blue border of the blossom is very small, and some- 

 times is scarcely expanded at all, so that the bloss. appears yellow. 



»Oth the sneries are liable \c\ this kind of variation, but it han- 



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