AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 49 
plant, but common in gardens, its leaves spot- 
ted, and its flowers red or violet according to 
the time they have been in bloom, both colours 
appearing at the sametime. It is of the same 
Nat. Ord. as Myosotis, namely, BorAGINAcEa, 
many of the plants of which Order have flowers 
resembling in structure the handsome blue 
Borage of gardens. 
Besides these our gardens have the bright 
azure flowers of Omphalodes verna, Blue 
Navelwort, among oval leaves like those of 
the Primrose; also the Evergreen Alkanet, 
Anchusa Sempervirens, with similar bright blue 
flowers, but a taller plant and hairy ; and the 
handsome blue Lzthospermum prostratum, one 
of the Gromwells, of which genus we have 
several native species; and a various alien 
multitude of the AZyosotzs ;—all these being of 
the Borage family, whilst their five-stamened 
flowers place them in Linn. Cl. V., Pentandria. 
The observer should notice two curious lines 
of dense white down on the stem of Germander 
Speedwell, and glandular hairs about the upper 
part of the plant; also the hooked bristles on 
the Calyces of the species of Myosotis named. 
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