FIELD SCOEPION- 

 GEASS. 



Myosotis arvensis. Nat. Ord., 

 Boraginacex. 



NT one who is familiar with 

 the beautiful forget-me-not 

 of our streams will have 

 little difficulty in detecting 

 a family likeness between it 

 and our present plant ; both 

 are members of the same 

 genus, Myosolis, though the 

 former is undoubtedly the 

 more attractive of the two. 

 We have in Britain some six 

 or seven species of scorpion - 

 grass some of them of con- 

 siderable rarity, and others 

 widely distributed and com- 

 monly to be met with and of 

 these the field scorpion-grass, 

 the subject of our present 



illustration, is the most abundant of all. It will be found 

 on hedge-banks, the edges of woods and copses, and perhaps 

 more especially on cultivated ground, its bunches of greyish 

 green leaves soon making their appearance on any part of 

 the garden or field that has escaped the hoe, and its flowers 

 being displayed during June, July, and August. 



