108 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



indistinctly keeled towards the apex on the face, bordered all round. 

 Plant very dull green, without any lustre. 



On dry banks and wall tops, and in woods, cultivated fields, and 

 waste ground. Common, and universally distributed. 



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



Summer. 



This plant bears some resemblance to M. arvensis and coUina, but 

 difiers from both in its more rigid habit, more leafy stems, longer and 

 narrower calyces, with the segments erect or connivent in fruit, 

 generally stained with dull lead blue. The flowers when they first 

 open are ochreous, at length generally changing to pale blue ; the 

 lowest one of the mam raceme is not separate from the others. Some- 

 times the flowers remain permanently yellowish white. 



From M. collina, which has the pedicels nearly as short, it differs in 

 the fruiting racemes not conspicuously exceeding the leafy part of 

 the stem ; in the corolla tube being longer and exserted, and the limb 

 on its first expansion being pale yellow or white; and the style 

 much longer. 



Yellow and Blue Forget-me-not 



French, Myosotis cliangeani. German, Verschiedenfarbiges VergissmeinnicJd. 



GENUS VL—A N C H U S A. Lhi^i. M. Bieb. 



Calyx 5-cleft or 5-partite. Corolla regular or nearly so, salver- 

 shaped or funnelshaped, sometimes nearly rotate ; throat closed with 

 5 obtuse scales ; limb spreading or concave, sometimes slightly oblique, 

 5-lobed. Stamens included. Achenes ovoid, wrinkled, sunk in and 

 attached to the flat receptacle by an excavated surface. 



Soft or bristly-hispid herbs, with the flowers in scorpioid racemes. 

 Corolla purple or blue, rarely yellow. 



The derivation of the name of this genus is from ayxto-, to constringe the fauces, 

 from the astringent qualities of the species. 



Sub-Genus I.— LYCOPSIS. Linn. 



Tube of the corolla as long as or longer than the limb, curved about 

 the middle; Ihnb more or less irregular and oblique. Nucules with the 

 ring at the base not prolonged into an appendage. 



