Victorian Plants. 381 



1VXYOSOTIS. 



1670. Stamens almost enclosed. 



Beset with short hairlets ; stem rather short and quite thin ; 

 leaves from obovate- to lanceolar- or linear-elliptical ; 

 stalklets very short ; bracts none ; flowers very small, all 

 turned to one side ; hairlets of the calyx hooked ; lobes 

 of corolla white or blue ; fruit enclosed. 



M. Anstralis. 



Stamens much exserted. 



Perennial, sylvan, beset with rather rigid hairlets ; stem 

 rather tall and robust ; leaves from elliptical to narrow - 

 lanceolar, rather elongated, usually sessile or somewhat 

 decurrent ; stalklets short ; bracts none ; flowers relatively 

 large, fragrant; hairlets of the calyx hooked; lobes of 

 corolla oftener white than bluish ; fruit enclosed. 



M. suave olens. 



HEXiXOTROPIUlK. 



1671. Glabrous. 



.Prostrate, grey-greenish, somewhat succulent ; leaves from 

 oval to almost linear ; lateral venules concealed ; spikes 

 usually two together ; flowers small, all turned to one 

 side ; lobes of the corolla white ; bracts none ; stigma 

 depressed ; fruit very short and broadish. 



H. Curassavicum. 



Beset with hairlets 1672 



1672. Vestiture consisting of short and mostly appressed 



hairlets. 



Erect or ascending; leaves conspicuously stalked, rather 



smooth, entire, from elliptic- to lanceolar-ovate ; spikes 



. usually two together; bracts none; flowers very small, 



all turned to one side ; lobes of the corolla white ; stigma 



elongate-conical ; fruit wrinkled -rough. 



H. Europaeum. 



Vestiture consisting of elongated rigid and mostly 

 spreading hairlets. 



Desert-plant, erect or ascending ; leaves from elliptic to 

 almost lanceolar, mostly sessile, waved and recurved at 

 the margin ; spikes usually two together ; flowers closely 

 approximated, all turned to one side ; lobes of the corolla 

 white ; stigma slender-conical. H. asperriuinm. 



