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wide across as the length of the tube, usually concave ; segments not 

 so broad as long, entire. Style about one-third the length of the 

 calyx. Nucules indistinctly keeled towards the apex on the face, 

 bordered all round. Plant dull green, without any lustre. 



On dry banks, fields, wall tops, and waste ground. Common, and 

 generally distributed, except in the West and North Highlands, where, 

 however, it may ha"\'e been overlooked. Apparently rare in Ireland, 

 and at present only known to occur on the east coast. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or Perennial. Spring, 



early Summer. 



This species bears much resemblance to ]\I. arvensis, but is smaller, 

 often only 2 or 3 inches high, and scarcely ever aboveG or 7; the leaty 

 part of the stem is exceedingly short ; the lowest flower on the main 

 raceme is usually separated from the rest, and in the axil of a leaflike 

 bract; the pedicels are shorter; the flowers smaller, bright ])lue, 

 scarcely tinged mth pink in bud, as they are in all the preceding- 

 species. The nucules ai"e smaller and brown, not black, as in ]\I. 

 arvensis. The plant dries up and disappears early in the sunmicr. 



Dwarf Forget-me-not. 



French, Mijosofis cles coUiiies. German, Stfiifhaartr/ps Verc/issmcimiiclit. 



SPECIES VIII.— M YOSOTIS VERSICOLOR. BoJch. 



Plate MCX. 



Eelch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVni. Tab. MCCCXXV. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 158. 



Rootstock none. Stem erect, stiflp, branched towards the base, witli 

 the pubescence in the lower part dense stiiF, spreading. Lower leaves 

 oblanceolate, gradually attenuated towards the base into an indistinct 

 petiole; stem leaves sessile, subdecurrent, oblong or strapshaped- 

 oblong, subacute, thickly clothed with long stifl!" pubescence, those at 

 the point where the forks of the racemes are given off generally op^JO- 

 site or nearly so. Fruiting raceme shorter than the leafy part of the 

 stem. Pedicels ascending or ascending-spreading, not secund, the 

 lowest one not distant from the others, all without bracts at the base, 

 and shorter than the calyx, or the lowest ones equalling it. Calyx with 

 a few long adpressed hairs, and numerous short spreading ones, all of 

 which are hooked-pointed, ovate-oblong and closed in fruit ; segments 

 triangidar-strapshaped, di\'ided half-way down. Corolla limb half as 

 ■wide across as the length of the tube, usually concave ; segments not 

 so broad as long, entire. Stjdes nearly as long as the calyx. Nucules 



