BORAGIXACEJE. 275 



The commonest species of the genus. The var. h. iimhrosa occurs in 

 woods and on shady hedge-banks. 



558. M. collina, Hoffm. Dwarf Forget-me-not. 



Native ; on dry stony or rocky banks and on walls. Common, 

 though somewhat local. April to June. 

 c. I. Crafthole. Seaton. St, Stephens ; in various places. 



II. Torpoint ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 206 ; Wear, near JMillbrook ; 

 Rame ; Whitsand Bay ; Hore, id., Fl. iii. 123. A large patch 

 with light blue, and one plant with bluish-white, flowers on a 

 wall between Cawsand and Rame Church, 1876. Tregantle. 

 Penhale. Combe, near Saltash. 

 D. III. Between Weston Mills and King's Tamerton. Hartley Hill. 

 Blaxton, and between that and Lophill. 

 IV. Between Gascoyne Place and Lipson ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 

 206 ; Turnchapel ; Staddon Heights ! ; id., Fl. iii. 123. Be- 

 tween Plymouth and Cattedo^vn. Plymstock. 

 V. Wembury. Elburton. 

 VI. Ringmore. Wall-top near Sequers Bridge. 

 This appears to be absent from all the colder tracts. It is hardly more 

 than submaritime in distribution. 



The first record of this for Devon and Cornwall seems to have been the 

 notice by the Pi,ev. W. S. Hore, in Phyt. i. 162, " Very common on stone 

 walls near the sea in April and jNIay." The paper was read at the fleeting 

 of the British Association in 1841, and appeared in the Phytologist the 

 succeeding year. 



559. M. versicolor, Lehm. Yellov: and Blue Forget-me-not. 



Native ; on dry banks, in turfy waste places, and in meadows. 

 Very common. April, jMay. Area general. 

 Grows on hedge-banks very near the town of Plymouth, occurs over all 

 the enclosed comitry and in some of the wilder tracts. A slight variety 

 with hght flowers and foliage is occasionally found with the tjq^ical plant. 

 I have seen it at St. Germans Beacon (District i.); at Mount Batten 

 (iv.), &c. A plant with wliite flowers near Saltash, 1869. 



ANCHTJSA, L. 



560. A. sempervirens, L. Evergreen Alkanet. 



Denizen, possibly Native ui a few places ; on banks and in bushy 

 or stony waste spots about ^illages, houses, and gardens. 

 Rather common. From latter part of March or April to June, 

 or later, 

 c. I. Between Crafthole and Looe ; Jones, Tour, 16 ; seen at Hessen- 

 ford, and between it and the coast. Caracawn. A plant or two 



