282 BORAGINEJE. [Myosotis- 



M. arven'sis proper; annual, corolla-limb concave. — Yar. umbro'sa, Bab . ; 

 biennial, corolla larger, limb natter. Shaded places. 



** Lower leaves subsessile. Pedicels usually shorter than the calyx. 



5. M. colli'na, Eoffm. ; annual, calyx shortly campanulate cleft J way 

 with many spreading hooked and few straight hairs, open in fruit, 

 corolla g in. diam. usually concave bright blue, tube short. 



Field banks and waste grounds, N. to Shetland; ascends to 1,000 ft. in the 

 Highlands ; E. Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-July. — Stems 3-12 in., 

 usually branched from the base. Leaves ^-1 in., linear-oblong, obtuse or 

 apiculate, strigose. Cymes very long and slender in fruit, often exceeding 

 the leafy part of the stem. Style not half as long as the calyx. Nutlets 

 turgid, brown, scarcely bordered. — Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. 

 31. Mitte'ni is a variety with the flowers pale, and the lower in the cyme 

 bracteate. 



6. M. versicolor, Reichb. ; annual, calyx shortly campanulate cleft ^ 

 way with many spreading hooked and few straight hairs, closed in fruit, 

 corolla T V in. diam. usually concave yellow then dull blue, tube long. 



Waste grounds, N. to Shetland ; ascends to 1,500 ft. in Northumbd. ; Ireland ; 

 Channel Islands ; fl. April-June. — Stems 3-12 in., usually much branched 

 from the base. Leaves §-1 in., linear-oblong, subacute, strigose. Cymes 

 elongate ; flowers not secund, lowest sometimes bracteate. Flowers homo- 

 gamous ; corolla-tube elongating till the anthers reach the stigma. Style 

 nearly as long as the calyx. Nutlets black, bordered. — Distrib. Europe, N. 

 Africa, W. Asia ; introd. iu the U. States. 



7*. ASPERU'GO, Tournef. Madwort (Madderwort). 



An annual hispid procumbent herb. Radical leaves petioled ; cauline 

 alternate subopposite or whorled. Cymes axillaiw, 1-3-fld. ; flowers on 

 short recurved pedicels, small, blue. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, with alter- 

 nating teeth ; lobes leafy, spreading, veined, enlarged after flowering, and 

 forming a compressed 2-lipped laciniate covering to the fruit. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, throat closed by scales ; lobes 5, rounded. Stamens included. 

 Stigma subcapitate. Nutlets laterally compressed, subacute, tubercled, 

 attached by the edge to an elevated receptacle. — Distrib. Europe (Arctic), 

 W. Asia to N.W. India. — Etym. asper, from the rough leaves. 



A. procum'bens, L. ; stem prickly, leaves linear-oblong. 



Waste places, rare and casual, from Sutherland to Kent ; fl. May-July. — 

 Stem 1-2 ft., stout or slender, soft, simple or branched, sharply ridged, 

 prickles scattered short booked. Leaves 2-5 in., lower petioled, uppermost 

 sessile, variable in form, obtuse or acute, thin, hispid. Corolla £ in. diam., 

 blue-purple. Fruiting-calyx i in. broad; lips unequal, fan-shaped, pal- 

 mately lobed ; pedicels very short, decurved. Receptacle of nutlets with 

 2 membranous scales formed of the detached cuticle of the calyx. 



