Bugloss and Scorpion Grass 239 
Common Bugloss (Anchusa arvensis), another bristly 
subject growing in fields. and wastes where the soil is 
light ; but here the scorpioid character is less evident. 
The blue tubular corolla is curved, and at the mouth 
there are five spreading lobes, each furnished with a 
white hairy scale at its base, and these scales partially 
close the mouth of the tube. Their white colour also 
makes them serviceable as honey-guides. Anthers 
and stigma mature together, but the position of the 
stigma above the anthers favours cross-fertilisation 
when insects pay their visits; should these not take 
place, self-fertilisation may be brought about by the 
corolla with the attached stamens dropping off, and 
so dragging the anthers over the stigma. 
The Forget-me-nots, or Scorpion-grasses (Myosotis), 
are represented in our flora by half a dozen species, 
of which M. palustris is the true Forget-me-not, and 
has much larger flowers than the others. In all the 
species there is a bell-shaped calyx with five teeth, 
and a salver-shaped corolla to whose tube the anthers 
are attached much as in the Primrose, whilst the 
central style also resembles that of the Primrose in 
having a globular stigma. The mouth of the corolla- 
tube is thickened, and bordered with yellow, from 
which five bands of white radiate across the exquisite 
blue of the corolla-lobes, and serve as honey-guides. 
Honey is produced at the base of the ovary, and 
insects have, in order to reach it, to push their 
tongues between the anthers and the stigma, and so 
narrow is the space that on one side the tongue 
touches the anthers and on the other the stigma. In 
going from plant to plant they are sure to get both 
sides of the tongue dusted with pollen, and so leave a 
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