lOG ENGLISH BOTANY. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. Spring to 



Autumn. 



Stems in var. a 6 to 18 inches high, generally with numerous 

 branches, in this respect resembling M. ctespitosa; sometimes, however, 

 when the stems are very numerous from tlie rootstock they are simple ; 

 pubescence often very abundant and stitF, leaves narrower and more 

 parallel-sided than in M. sylvatica, the lower ones not so distinctly 

 stalked ; racemes at length 3 to 8 inches long ; the pedicels less 

 spreading than in M. sylvatica; the calyx with more numerous hooked 

 hairs, and the segments more connivent over the nucules. Corolla 

 i to ig inch across, rather dull blue. Nucules shining black, with a 

 less evident keel than in M. sylvatica, but a more conspicuous border, 

 which runs round the whole of the lateral margins from the base to 

 the apex. 



Var. 3 is very often mistaken for M. sylvatica, but it is a stouter 

 plant, with the stem usually more branched, the leaves more parallel- 

 sided, the hooked-pointed hairs on the calyx more numerous, the 

 corolla little more than i inch across and of not so bright a blue, and 

 the plant agrees with the typical form of M. arvcnsis in the fruiting 

 calyx and nucules. 



Field Forget-me-not. 



French, Mijosofis des cliamps. German, Mittleres Vcrgissmclnnicld. 



SPECIES VII.— MYOS OTIS COL LIN A. Bekh. 



Plate MCIX. 



Bea-A. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCGXXIII. Figs. 2 and 3. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 157. 



M. hispida, " Schlectit." A. B.C. in. D.C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 108. Koch, Syn. Fl. 



Germ, et Helv. p. 582. Gren. & Goch: Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 581. Beich.Jll. 1. c. 



p. 72. 

 M. arvensis, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 2558 and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 252. 



Eootstock none. Stem erect or ascending, weak, branched towards 

 the base, with the pubescence in the lower part dense, stiff, spreading. 

 Lower leaves oblanceolate, gradually attenuated towards the base into 

 an indistinct petiole; stem leaves sessile, subdecurrent, oblong or 

 elliptical-oblong, subacute, thickly clothed with rather long stiff 

 puliescence, all alternate. Fruiting raceme longer than the leafy part 

 of the stem. Pedicels rather slender, in ffuit spreading or spreading- 

 ascending, usvially not secund, the lowest one commonly distant from 

 the others, and with a leaflike bract at the base, all shorter than the 

 calyx, or the lowest ones equalling it. Calyx with a few long ad- 

 pressed hairs, and very numerous spreading ones, all of wliich are 

 hooked-pointed, widely bellshaped and open in fruit; segments trian- 

 gular-strapshaped, divided lialf-way down. Corolhi lindj about as 



