48 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
purplish flowers like little Snapdragons. These 
flowers are Didynamous, and therefore of Linn. 
Cl. XIV., having two pairs of stamens, one 
pair rising above the other. The Figwort, 
Scrophularia, gives name to this Nat. Ord., 
which, besides other genera, contains the Fox- 
glove, Digztals. 
The earliest of the genus JZyosotis, Mouse- 
ear, called also Scorpion-grass from the curving 
spikes of most of its species like a scorpion’s 
tail, is now to be found. Its flowers are small 
but deep blue; it is AZ. arvensts. We have 
8 species of Myosotis, most of which probably, 
in common parlance, share with the very beau- 
tiful one, AZ. palustris, the poetical name of 
Forget-me-not. This last, which is the one 
that bears the name far excellence, is an 
ornament of streamlets, river-sides, and pools. 
M. collina, a smaller plant, but with a rich blue 
flower, should also now be found in open 
grassy places. And very soon there will be, 
on sunny old walled banks and other dry open 
places, JZ. versicolor, a slender little plant, 
whose corolla, at first yellow, changes after- 
wards to blue. 
The Lungwort, Pulmonaria, is rare as a wild 
