170 BORAGINE^r. [Myosotis. 



the lobes entire. The other characters of Lycopsis. De 

 Cand. Name from a<yx ovaa > paint. The roots of one spe- 

 cies, A. tinctoria, yield a red dye which has been used in 

 former times to stain the face. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



I. A. sempervirens, Linn. Evergreen Alkanet. Flower- 

 stalks axillary, each bearing two dense spikes, with an interme- 

 diate flower, and two principal ovate bracteas; leaves ovate. 

 Br. Fl. 1. p. 82. E. Fl. v. i. p. 258. E. Bot. t. 45. 



Waste ground and hedge banks. Hedges near Dung-lass, County of 

 Cork ; Mr. J. Drummond. Near the ruins of Grey Abbe}', County 

 of Down ; Mr. J. Campbell. Near Port Glenone and Maghrafelt ; 

 Mr. Templeton. Fl. May, June. !. Flowers of a beautiful blue. 

 The shape of the corolla as' Sir James E. Smith observes is rather salver 

 .than funnel-shaped. 



7. MYOSOTIS. Linn* Scorpion-grass. 



'Calyx 5-cleft, or 5-toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform, with a 

 short tube ; limb flat, with five emarginate lobes. Scales of 

 the orifice convex, converging. Nuts smooth. Name from 

 /ivs, JLIVOS, a mouse, and ovs, o-ros, an ear ; from the shape of 

 the leaves. Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. M. palustris, Roth. Great Water Scorpion-grass, . or 

 Forget-me-not. Nuts smooth ; leaves and calyx roughish, witli 

 close bristles; clusters leafless ; calyx funnel-shaped, with short 

 broad spreading teeth ; limb of the corolla horizontal, longer 

 than the tube; root creeping. Br. FL 1. p. 83. E. Fl. v. i. p. 

 249. E. Bot.t. 1973. M. scorpioides, Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 3. 

 p. 13. 



Ditches and sides of river?, abundant. Fl. during- the summer 

 months. 1. About a foot high. Flowers among the largest of the 

 British species, bright blue with a yellow eye, and a small white ray at 

 the base of each segment. 



2. M. ccespitosa, Schultz. Tufted Water- Scorpion-grass. 

 Nuts smooth ; calyx with straight appressed bristles, when in 

 fruit campanulate, open, shorter than the divergent pedicels; 

 limb of the corolla concave, equalling the tube ; pubescence 

 of the stem appressed. Br. Fl. 1. p. 83. E. Fl. v. i. p. 250. 



In watery places. In wet ditches above Dundrum. Banks of Lough 

 Neagh ; Mr. D. Moore. Cranmore near Belfast ; Mr. Templeton. 

 Fl. May, June. $. or 1. Sm> Root fibrous, not creeping. Stem 

 throwing fibres from the lower joints. Calyx sparingly sprinkled with 

 appressed, white bristles, cleft more deeply than in M. palustris. 

 Corolla varying in size, but usually not much exceeding the calyx. 



3. M. sylvatica, Hoffm, Upright Wood Scorpion-grass. 

 Fruit smooth ; calyx with spreading uncinate bristles, deeply 

 5-clet't, when in fruit ovate (closed) shorter than the divergent 



