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Keich. ; 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, Sclmltz ; 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. Nutlet* black, short, broad, bordered, not keeled in 

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

 1ST. 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 

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

 in fruit, corolla | 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. Stem |-2 ft., branched from the base, 

 erect or the lateral branches ascending. Leaves 1^-2^ 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, Srn. 

 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. mterme'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. syliat'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. 



