MYOSOTIS. 
aica and M. olympica be separated from M. alpestris ; these occupy 
the high damp alps and stream-sides, the one on Olympus and the 
other in the Pyrenees; just so does M. alpestris ascend the alps of 
Central Europe to the point at which it is succeeded by M. rupicola, 
which, with all its affinities, still deserves to retain specific rank, at 
least in the garden, and for the rock-work has value so great that it 
almost excludes even beautiful but taller 1. alpestris from our realm. 
M. amabilis is no less dense with white hair than M. albo-sericea, 
but its stems of 6 or 9 inches are weakly, and only rise up at the end 
to show a lengthening head of large white blossoms. 
M. azorica has a sound habit, and a singular beauty of large 
flowers in the most intense rich violet-purple. Unfortunately it is 
not safely hardy, but should be raised annually from seed (though 
quite perennial), and put out in sunny and rather light soil. The 
garden plant, Impératrice Elisabeth, is a development of this. 
M. Cheesemannii makes a hairy white tuft about 3 inches wide, 
with sweet-scented white flowers sitting solitary in the upper axils 
of the shoots. A very pretty neat dense little alpine from some 6000 
feet up on Mount Pisa in the South Island. 
M., concinna is also a New Zealander, but much larger, often over 
a foot in height, emitting from its clumps of silky foliage a number of 
stems either simple or forking, that unfurl lengthening sprays set 
closely with large fragrant flowers of yellow, or of white with a golden 
eye, deeply lobed, and short in the tube. From the limestone rocks 
of Mount Owen in the South Island. 
M. decora is a white-flowering hoary tuffet with the anthers far 
protruding from the blossoms. Limestone rocks of Broken River 
Basin, South Island. 
M. explanata is the plant that sweeps out of notice MM. ausirahe, 
Forsteri, and capitata. For it is a far finer and neater species from the 
high passes of the South Island, about half a foot or a foot tall, all - 
white with short and silky hairs, and specially profuse in its very large 
white blossoms. 
M. Goyeni is a grey, magnified, and taller version of WM. albo-sericea, 
with larger flowers to make up. 
M. Hectori will be pictured under M. pulvinaris. 
M. Hookeri makes wee cushions on the Roof of the World, like a 
tufted alpine Cerastium, and rejoices our eyes at last with a return to 
Forget-me-not blue. Its little stems branch again and again in the 
mass, densely clothed in whorled-looking leaves, venerable in long 
white hairs, and altogether having not at all an unsuccessful game of 
making believe to be the King of the Alps himself, with fur-clad foliage, 
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