CLASS V. ORDEa I.] MYOSOTIS. 231 



Habitat. Uucultivated stony places, rare ; on the Links near 

 Hartley pans, Northumberland. 



Biennial or Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



It is doubtful if either this or the following species are natives of this 

 country ; they are frequently cultivated in gardens for the beauty of 

 their flowers. The above has had the reputation of being useful in 

 similar cases as the Borago, but is now justly rejected. It is of frequent 

 occurrence on the continent, and is sometimes mistaken for the 

 A. tinctoria, the roots of which contain much colouring extract, of a 

 deep red colour. 



2. A. semper' virens, Linn. (Fig. 300.) evergreen Alkanet. Leaves 

 ovate hispid, the lower ones on footstalks, flowers axillary, on long 

 peduncles, accompanied by two. small leaves. 



English Botany, t. 45. English Flora, vol. i. p. 259. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 101. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 165. 



Root thick tapering, blackish. The whole plant rather hairy than 

 hispid, deflexed on the stem, which is from one to two feet high, erect, 

 angular branched. Leaves ovate acute, dark green, the lower on long 

 footstalks, the upper sessile, from which arise the long naked pedun- 

 cles, terminated by two ovate-lanceolate leafy bracteas, and two small 

 crowded racemes, having a single flower in the axis of these devarica- 

 tions. Flowers on short stalks. Calyx very hispid, of five narrow 

 segments. The corolla is " rather salver than funnel-shaped," its tube 

 short and swollen, the limb of a brilliant light blue, in five deep 

 rounded segments, each having at its base a white obtuse hairy scale, 

 from which a white line runs nearly halfway up each segment; inter- 

 vening between the scales are the sessile, ovate. Stamens at the top of 

 the tube, and inclosed together with the pistil within the tube by the 

 connivent scales. Fruit four. Nuts similar to the last. 



Habitat. Waste stony places, among ruins and uncultivated places ; 

 not unfrequent in England, Ireland, and Scotland. 



Perennial ; flowering in May and June. 



This plant is almost always in foliage, from which circumstance it 

 has obtained the name of sempervirens. The structure of its beautiful 

 corolla much resembles that of the genus Myosotis, and it seems to be 

 the connecting link between tle two genera. 



GENUS VIII. MYOSOTIS. LINN. ScorpioiZGrass. 



Nat. Ord. BORAGIN'E.*:. DE CAND. 

 GEN. CHAR, Calyx fire-cleft. Corolla salver-shaped, the limb of 



