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Bhorter than the calyx in frnit. Corolla a little longer than the calyx. 

 Nucules bony, grey, shining, bluntly muricated and deeply foveolatc, 

 ovate-ovoid, much acuminated towards the ajaex, rather less tlian half 

 as long as the calyx segments. 



In cultivated ground and waste places. Rather common, and gene- 

 rally disti'ibuted. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autuum. 



Stem 8 inches to 2 feet high, with adpressed hairs, much less rigid 

 and less rough than in L. officmale, in large specimens dividing into 

 several at the base. Radical leaves oblanceolate, soon -withering ; stem 

 leaves rather numerous, Ih to 3 inches long. Branches of the inflo- 

 rescence at length 3 to 14 mches long. Calyx in flower about | inch 

 long, in fruit nearly l inch. Corolla |- inch long, cream white. 

 Nucules grey, rather smaller than those of L. officinale, narrowed from 

 about the middle to the apex, much roughened, but with a vitreous 

 lustre. Plant green, strigosely hairy on both sides of the leaves, the 

 hairs on the leaves witli rather large, but unequally sized tubercles. 



Corn GromwelL . 



French, Gremil des cluiinjjs. Germcin, AcJcersteinsame. 



This plant yields a good red dye, and is used in Sweden as a substitute for the 

 true alkanet. Its colour is very good, but it does not produce enough to, make it 

 equally valuable. Linnisus says the women in the northern parts of Sweden often 

 stain their faces with it. The colouring matter is easily communicated to oil, wax, 

 or any greasy substance. It has probably been occasionally used in this country as a 

 pigment, for in some districts it is called Painting Root. 



GENUS r.— MYOSOTIS. DHL 



Calyx 5-cleft, -toothed, or -partite. Corolla regular, salvershaped or 

 funnelshaped ; throat generally closed with 5 notched boss-like scales ; 

 limb spreading, not oblique, 5-lobed. Stamens included; filaments 

 veiy short. Style undivided. Nucules smooth, ovate-ovoid, attached 

 to the flat receptacle by a plain surface. 



Softly hispid or subglabrous herbs, witli small flowers in scorpioid 

 racemes, winch are terminal and from the axils of the upper leaves, 

 in the former case generally in pairs. Corolla small, pink, changing 

 to blue or yellow. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from tlic two Greek words, /(iJr, a mouse, 

 and our^ w-oc, an car, alluding to the soft and erect. leaves which are sujiposed to have 

 a resemblance to the curs of a mouse. 



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