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opposite the five stamens, which are concealed in the tube. 

 The stigma is small, divided in two. The seed is white, 

 nut-like, shining, and very hard. Plant a foot or foot-and- 

 a-half high, leafy, the flowering stems ending in a loose 

 cluster of a few flowers. The branches that do not flower 

 root easily at the end. Leaves lanceolate, veined, and 

 hairy. Commons, hedges and woods of the lower grounds. 



71. Myosotis.— Forget-me-not. 



(PLATE XL.) 



The Forget-me-not is too well known to need description, 

 but both in our own country and in Switzerland a great 

 many needless divisions seem to have been made ; for no 

 doubt the same plant varies considerably according to 

 situation. The general characters of the family are — a one- 

 petalled corolla, with five divisions to the limb, the mouth 

 having five small valves, and a yellow edge round the tube,, 

 within which are the five stamens. The flowers are gene- 

 rally blue, they usually grow up the stem in a long, some- 

 times forked, cluster, and in many cases the end of the 

 stalk, with the unopened buds, is curled round. They have 

 more or less hair about them. M. sylvatica will probably 

 be the Forget-me-not most frequently met with ; it has 



