252 BORRAGIXE-E. [PULMON .\I:IA. 



Habit, &c. of P. anguttlfolia, but the leaves are of a very different form, 

 and always blotched with pale green, and the flowers are pale purple. 

 DISTRIB. Europe. 



7. MYOSO'TIS, L. ScORPIOX-GRASS. 



Annual or perennial strigose herbs. Radical leaves petioled ; cauline 

 sessile, linear-oblong. Cymes terminal, scorpioid ; flowers small, bracteate 

 or not. Calyx 5-toothed or -cleft. Corolla salver- or funnel-shaped, throat 

 closed by 5 short notched scales ; limb 5-fid, lobes contorted in luid. 

 Anthers included, connective slightly produced. Style short, stigma capitate. 

 Nutlets 4, minute, usually highly polished, compressed or 3-gonous, at- 

 tached by a small base to a small receptacle. DISTRIB. N. and S. t-'inp. 

 regions, most common in Europe and Australia ; species about 25. KTV.M. 

 /iife and ovs, from the leaves resembling a mouse's ear. 



SECTION 1. Perennial. Hairs of stem appressed or spreading. /' 

 slender, longer than the calyx. Calyx campanulate, strigose with straight 

 appressed hairs only. 



1. M. palus'tris, With.; hairs scanty slightly spreading or apprised, 

 calyx-lobes triangular equalling ^-^ of the tube, corolla ^-^ in. diani., 

 style nearly equalling the calyx. Forget-me-not. 



Wet places, from Forfar southwards ; fl. May-July. Light green and rather 

 shining. Rootntock creeping ; stolons creeping, subterranean, with small 

 leaves. Stem 1-2 ft., erect or ascending, rather stout, flexuous. /..<,< 

 1-3 in., linear-oblong or narrowly spathulate, obtuse ; upper sessile or shortly 

 decurrent. Cymes variable, flowering pedicels -J in. Carol la sky-blue, 

 disk yellow, lobes retuse. Nutlets small, black, bordered, hard keeled in 

 front. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), Siberia, Dahuria ; introd. in N. America. 



VAR. 1, pa/uJtri-s proper ; stem with lax spreading hairs. VAK. '2. .<///'//"//./, 

 Reich, (sp. ) ; stem more erect, with more copious appressed hairs, leaves 

 sessile, flowers smaller. 



2. M. lingula'ta, Lchm. ; hairs appressed, calyx-lobes triangular nearly 

 as long as the tube, corolla Jin. diarn., style much shorter than the calyx. 

 M. oKspiiosa, Schultz. 



Wet places, ascending to 1,600 ft. in Yorkshire, &c. ; fl. May- Aug. Light 

 green, tufted, rather shining. JiootstocL- short, without stolons. Stem 6-18 in., 

 much branched from the base, branches slender. Leases, radical spathu late- 

 oblong, polished; cauline l-2i in., linear-oblong, tip rounded, narrowed to 

 the sessile base. Cymes usually long and slender, pedicels ^-i in. Calyx- 

 lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse. Corolla sky-blue, disk yellow. Nutlet* Mack, 

 bordered, not keeled in front, short, broad. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. 

 Africa, Siberia, Dahuria, W. Asia to the Himalaya, N. America. This and 

 the preceding are the only species with bright green shining foliage. 



3. M. re 'pens, Don; hairs long spreading, calyx-lobes narrow acute 

 exceeding the tube, corolla -j in. diam., style nearly as long as the calyx. 

 Wet places, most common in Scotland ; ascends to 2,200 ft. in Yorkshire ; fl. 



June-Aug. Rootetock short ; stolons creeping above ground, leafy, rooting 

 at the tip only. Stem 4-18 in., very slender, branched, flexuous. Leaves, 

 radical obovate-spathulate ; cauline 1-2 in., linear-oblong or oblong-obovate, 

 usually broad at the base. Cymes slender, elongate ; pedicels very slender, 



