WOOD FORGET-ME-NOT via! 
lower petiolate, lanceolate-ovate, upper sessile, oblong, flower pink and 
blue or pale purple. 
Wood Forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica, Hoffm.) 
Though no species of this genus have yet been found in England 
in ancient deposits, they are known from Gothland, Sweden. In Arctic 
Europe, the Canaries, Siberia, Dahuria, and West Asia, or the North 
Temperate and Arctic Zones, this plant is found generally. In Great 
Britain it is found in N. Wilts, N. Hants, E. Sussex in the Channel 
province; not in Kent in the Thames province, or Middlesex, Oxford, 
Bucks. In Anglia it is found only in Suffolk and Norfolk, in the 
Severn province in East Gloucs, Monmouth, Worcester, Warwick, 
Stafford, Salop. In Wales it grows only in Carnarvon and Anglesea, 
in the Trent province it is general, but not in Lincs, and not in Mid 
Lancs in the Mersey province; but it occurs throughout the Humber 
and Tyne provinces, in Cumberland, in the Lake province, in Dum- 
fries, Kirkcudbright, W. Lowlands, Berwick, Edinburgh, in E. Low- 
lands, Stirling, Forfar, Kincardine, in E. Highlands, and in N. Ebudes. 
It is found in Yorks at 1200 ft. This species is absent from Ireland. 
The Wood Forget-me-not is very local in its distribution, and is 
perhaps most uniformly dispersed in central England, where it is 
abundant and widespread in woods and copses, so much so as in places 
to give quite as characteristic an appearance as the Bluebell in spring. 
This is one of the tallest of Forget-me-nots, growing usually in 
dense clumps, with a tall, erect stem, branched above, with oblong, 
lance-shaped leaves on long leaf-stalks, with spreading hairs. 
The large flowers are a beautiful pale blue like enamel. They are 
borne on large loose one-sided cymes on long flower-stalks, twice as 
long as the calyx, which is 5-fid, divided more than half its length, 
spreading, with unequal segments, which are acute, and is rounded 
below and closed in fruit. The corolla limb is flat and longer than the 
tube, which is straight. The nuts are brown, keeled, and attached by 
the narrow end. 
The flower is 2 ft. high. It is in bloom in June and July. The 
Wood Forget-me-not is perennial, increasing by division, and equal to 
garden forms. 
The anthers attached to the corolla just above the stigma pro- 
ject above the corolla when the flower opens, are inclined upwards, 
and open longitudinally, being covered with pollen inside like a 
figure-of-eight, .oo5 m. by .co3 m. The flower is homogamous, i.e. 
