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Stem erect, 12-18 inches high, clothed with soft spreading 

 hairs. Bristles on the leaves, flowering stems, flower- 

 stalks and calyx appressed. Clusters leafy at the base, 

 spreading. Flower-stalks patent or recurved, more than 

 twice the length of the calyx, the segments of which are 

 long, lanceolate and erect, scarcely patent. Flowers large 

 and very beautiful, light azure-blue, pink in the bud. 

 There is very commonly a solitary flower in the axil of 

 the branches. 



In the Journal quoted above, there is a good description of 

 this Myosotis by Dr MURRAY, who at first considered it as a 

 new species, but subsequently referred it to the ccespitosa of 

 SMITH on the authority of Dr HOOKER. From that species, 

 however, it is altogether distinct ; and, if long observation of 

 the living plants may warrant me to give an opinion, it is 

 equally distinct from M. palustris, an opinion in which I 

 am supported by my friend the Rev. A. BAIRD, who has had 

 opportunities of studying them in different localities. M. 

 palustris is a succulent plant, decumbent at the base, of a 

 dark green, liable to become blackish in drying, and gene- 

 rally covered with scattered appressed hairs, and when 

 they are spreading, which is sometimes the case, they are 

 more rigid and sparing than in M. repens. The clusters 

 of flowers are few-branched, always leafless ; the segments 

 of the calyx very short and patent ; but the corolla large, 

 plane, and of a deep azure-blue. On the contrary, M. re- 

 pens is erect, rather slender, taller, and of a lighter green, 

 which it retains in drying, with the stem always densely 

 clothed with woolly hairs. The cluster is more branched, 

 and the flowers, although large, are smaller than those of 

 the palustris, and of a very beautiful light azure colour, 

 pink in the bud. The M* ccespitosa is well distinguished 

 from either by its smoothness, its excessively branched 

 panicle, and the smalmess of its flowers, while the divi- 

 sions of the calyx are as large as in M. repens. The latter 

 Mr DON was the first to notice, but it is still imperfectly 

 understood, and is often confounded with M. palustris, a 

 comparatively rare plant, and as I think of inferior beauty. 

 I have to request the reader to erase Myosotis sylvatica from 

 the first volume, for it is the M. repens which grows in the 

 station assigned to the former species, and which, so far as 

 I know, does not occur either in Berwickshire or N. Dur- 

 ham. 



SYMFHYTUM, (p. 44.) 

 1. S officinale, hirsute ; stem blanched, winged with the decur- 



