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impedes the passage of the latter for the same 

 reason. 



The flowers are rendered the more conspicuous 

 by the expansion of the limb and by being somewhat 

 crowded. Cross-pollination is favoured. 



The nutlets fall, when ripe, near the plant. 



The only name given by Britten and Holland to 

 this plant is Pheasant's Eye, applied also to Adonis 

 mitumnalis. 



Anchusa sempervirens. — In Fig. 29 it is possible 

 to make out the stiff hairs on the stem. The stem-leaves 

 are broadly -ovate , deeply-veined^ shortly -stalked. The 

 flowers can he seen to he in axillary cymes in pairs or short 

 spikes with bracts below. 



Field Forget-me-not {Myosotis arvensis). 



Though not possessing so conspicuous a flower as 

 the Marsh or Wood Forget-me-nots, this common 

 species is well known and familiar to all who take 

 that lively interest in wild flowers, for whom these 

 volumes are especially written. 



In fact the Field Forget-me-not is found in all 

 parts of the British Isles. In Yorkshire it grows at 

 an altitude of 1200 ft. 



The habitat of the Field Forgot-me-not is, as the 

 name implies, fields and woods, cultivated ground, 

 waste places, hedge-banks, bushy places; and on clay 

 and loam it grows in damp oakwoods as well as on 

 neutral grassland, and on a chalk soil on chalk 

 grassland. 



