280 BORAQINEJE. [PULMONARIA. 



polygamous or dimorphic, purple, white or pink in bud, honeyed. 

 Calyx 5-angled at the base, 5-fid, after flowering campanulate, lobes erect. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-cleft, with 5 pencils of hairs between the stamens. 

 Stamens 5, included. Stigma subglobose, 2-lipped. Nutlets 4, turbinate, 

 smooth, base truncate, receptacle flat. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia ; 

 species 4. ETYM. pulmo, from its former use in lung complaints. 



P. angustifo'lia, L. ; leaves narrow-lanceolate cauline sessile. 



Copses, &c., on clay soil, very rare ; Hants, Dorset ; fl. April-June. EootstocJc 

 short, stout; root-fibres fleshy. Stem 1-1J? ft., hairy, hardly hispid, brittle. 

 Leaves, radical 6-10 in., petioled, often spotted with pale green ; cauline 

 sessile, much smaller, more oblong, acute, ^-amplexicaul. Cymes short, much 

 incurved, bracts leafy ; pedicels rather slender. Flowers dimorphous, the 

 short-styled with larger flowers, a smaller ovary and less honey. Calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, ^ in., enlarging in fruit. Corolla in., pink, then bright blue. 

 Nutlets smooth, black. DISTRIB. Europe (excl. Spain, Greece, Turkey). 

 P. OFFICINA'LIS, L. ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 



Woods and copses, S. Scotland and England, rare, naturalized. Habit, &c. of 

 P. anyustifo'lia, but the leaves very different, and always blotched with pale 

 green, and flowers pale purple. DISTRIB. Europe. 



7. MYOSO'TIS, L. SCORPION-GRASS. 



Annual or perennial strigose herbs. Radical leaves petioled ; cauline 

 sessile, linear-oblong. Cymes terminal, scorpioid ; flowers small, bracteate 

 or not. Calyx 5-toothed or -cleft. Corolla salver- or funnel-shaped, throat 

 closed by 5 short notched scales ; limb 5-fid, lobes contorted in bud. 

 Anthers included, connective slightly produced. Style short, stigma 

 capitate. Nutlets 4, minute, usually highly polished, compressed or 3- 

 gonous, base small, receptacle small. DISTUIB. N. and S. temp, regions, 

 most common in Europe and Australia ; species about 30. ETYM. juus and 

 o5s, from the leaves resembling a mouse's ear. 



SECTION 1. Perennial. Hairs of stem appressed or spreading. Pedicels 

 slender, longer than the calyx. Calyx campanulate, strigose with straight 

 appressed hairs only. 



1. M. palus'tris. With. ; hairs scanty spreading rarely appressed, 

 corolla J-J in. diam., style nearly equalling the calyx. Forget-me-not. 

 Wet places, N. to Shetland ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-July. --Ligh* 

 green, rather shining. EootstocJc creeping; stolons creeping, with small 

 leaves. Stem 1-2 ft., erect or ascending, rather stout, flexuous. Leaves 

 1-3 in., linear-oblong or narrowly spathulate, obtuse, shining ; upper sessile 

 or shortly decurrent. Cymes variable, flowering pedicels j~| in. Corolla 

 sky-blue, disk yellow, lobes retuse. Nutlets small, black, bordered, hard 

 keeled in front. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. Asia; introd. in N. 

 America. 



M. PALTJS'TRIS proper ; stolons subterranean, calyx-lobes triangular shorter than 

 the corolla-tube. Lowlands,N.to Orkney, rarer Scotland. 



