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Reich. ; more erect with more copious appressed hairs, leaves sessile, flowers 

 smaller. 

 Sub-sp. M. re'pexs, D. Don ; stolons above ground, calyx-lobes lanceolate ex- 

 ceeding the corolla tube. — More northern and upland, ascends to 2,200 ft. in 

 Yorkshire, Channel Islands to Shetland. 



2. M. csespitosa, Schultz ; hairs appressed, calyx-lobes triangular 

 nearly as long as the tube, corolla £ in. diam., style much shorter than the 

 calyx. — M. lingula'ta, Lehm. 



Wet places, N. to Shetland ; ascends to 1,600 ft. in Yorkshire ; Ireland ; 

 Channel Islands ; fl. May-Aug.— Light green, tufted, rather shining. Root- 

 stock short, without stolons. Stem 6-18 in., much branched from the base, 

 branches slender. Leaves, radical spathulate- oblong, polished ; cauline 1-2^ 

 in., linear-oblong, tip rounded, narrowed to the sessile base. Cymes usually 

 long and slender, pedicels J-^ in. Sepals oblong-ovate, obtuse. Corolla 

 sky-blue, disk yellow. Nutlets black, short, broad, bordered, not keeled in 

 front. — Distrib. Europe (Arctic), N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, Himalaya, 

 N. America. — This and the preceding are the only species with bright green 

 shining foliage. 



Section 2. Hairs of stem spreading. Calyx with spreading and hooked 

 hairs. 



* Lower leaves petioled. Pedicels usually much longer than the calyx. 



3. M. sylvat'ica, Hoffm. ; perennial, stolons 0, calyx campanulate cleft 

 f of the way with few straight and many incurved or hooked hairs, closed 

 in fruit, corolla g in. diam. flat. 



Dry woods, &c, from Forfar and Dumfries to Kent, Hants, and "Wales; 

 ascends to 1,200 ft. in Yorkshire ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-Sept. — Biennial 

 or perennial. Rootstock or short. 6tem |-2 ft., branched from the base, 

 erect or the lateral branches ascending. Leaves I5-25 in., acute or apiculate, 

 hairs spreading. Cymes very lax in fruit ; pedicels about twice as long as 

 the calyx. Flowers homomorphous, odorous in the evening ; corolla bright 

 blue, tube very short. Nutlets bordered, keeled at the tip in front. — 

 Distrib. Europe (Arctic), Canaries, N. and W. Asia. 



M. sylvat'ica proper ; leaves long-petioled subacute, calyx base rounded, 

 tube with hooked hairs, nutlets brown. 



Sub-sp. M. alpes'tris, Schmidt ; leaves subsessile, calyx with many straight 

 and few incurved or hooked hairs, open in fruit, base acute, corolla 

 ^ in. diam. flat, fruiting pedicels shorter, nutlets black. M. rupic'ola, Sin. 

 —Moist rocks, Ben Lawers, alt. nearly 4,000 ft. ; Teesdale, alt. 2,400 ft. ; 

 Westmoreland. 



4. M. arven'sis, Hoffm. ; annual or biennial, calyx shortly campanulate 

 cleft £ way or lower with few appressed and many spreading hooked hairs, 

 closed in fruit, corolla £ in. diam. usually concave. M. interme'dia, Link. 

 Fields and waste places, N. to Shetland ; ascends to 1,200 ft. in Yorkshire ; 



Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. June-Aug.— Closely allied to M. sylvat'ica, 

 but pedicels usually much longer, slender, and flowers very small and paler 

 blue. Nutlets brown, bordered, keeled in front. — Distrib. Europe (Arctic), 

 N. Africa, N. and W. Asia to India, native of N. U. States. 



