98 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES I.-MYOSOTIS C^SPITOSA. Schultz. 



Plate MCIII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVni. Tab. MCCCXXI. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. 2nd Cent. B. 



M. lingulata, " Lehn." Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. ii. p. 64, and Summ. "Veg. Scand. 

 p. 12. Gren. & Goch: Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 529. Beich. fil. 1. c. p. 71. 



Rootstock short, truncate, oblique or nearly vertical, not stolynife- 

 rous. Stem erect or ascending, usually mucli branched, with the 

 pubescence adpressed. Lower leaves oblong-oblanceolate, gradually 

 attenuated towards the base, and subpetiolate ; stem leaves sessile, 

 subdecurrent, elUptical-strapshaped or oblong-strapshaped ; all obtuse 

 and apiculate, thinly clothed with adpressed pubescence. Pedicels 

 Blender, in fruit secund and horizontally divaricate, all longer than the 

 calyx, the lower ones twice or thrice as long. Calyx with adpressed 

 straight hairs, cup.shaped-bellshaped and open in fruit ; segments 

 triangular-ovate, divided rather less than half-way down. Corolla limb 

 about as wide across as the length of the tube, nearly flat ; segments 

 about as broad as long, entire. Style about half as long as the calyx. 

 Plant light green, with a somewhat greasy lustre. 



In ditches, mai'shes, or wet places. Rather common, and generally 

 distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or Perennial. ( ?) Spring 



to Autumn. 



Stems leafy to the base, 6 to 18 inches high, generally dividing mto 

 numerous branches of nearly equal height, diverging at a small angle, 

 and givmg a tufted appearance to the plant. Leaves 1 to 3 inches 

 long, the lower ones attenuated towards the base mto an indistuict 

 petiole, the upper ones sessile and slightly decurrent; all somewhat 

 translucent. Racemes generally in pairs, often with a leaf at the base 

 of each, at length 3 to 6 inches long ; fruit pedicels ^ to ^ inch long, 

 the lower ones exceeding the upper ; all, except sometimes the lowest, 

 without bracts at the base, at first ascending, afterwards all turned 

 horizontally in one direction. Calyx with strigose hairs which are not 

 hooked at the tip. Corolla about ^ inch across, sky-blue, with a yellow 

 eye, with 5 blunt, obtuse, hump-Hive scales in the throat. Style short ; 

 stigma ca^jitate, concave. Nucules sliming, fuscous, roundish-ovoid, 

 laterally compressed, and somewhat bordered towards the apex. 



I have retained Schultz's name of " casspitosa," as there seems to be 

 some doubt respecting the plant intended by Lehmann by his M. "lin- 

 gulata." Mr. Bentham joms M. casspitosa to M. palustris. 



Tufted Water Forget-me-not. 



Frencli, Mi/osolits ijaaonnante. German, Basenartiges Vergissmeitmichti 



