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E. B. S. 2703. L, rather acute. Stoloniferous. St. slightly 

 angular. Raceme usually slightly leafy (1 4 leaves) below. 

 Cor. pale blue. Gal. divided fully halfway down. Boggy 

 places. P. VI. VIII. E. S. I. 



3. M. ccespitosa (Schultz) ; fr.-cal. open, its teeth narrow lan- 

 ceolate bluntish, cor. -limb equalling the tube, its lobes entire, style 

 very short, pubescence of the st. adpressed. E. B. S. 2661. M. 

 lingulata Lehm. (name only). L. usually blunt or even emar- 

 ginate. St. round, with a decurrent line. Raceme usually 

 slightly leafy below. Cor. smaller than in the preceding, bright 

 blue, segments narrower and rounded at the end. Style about 

 equalling the cal.-tube. Watery places. P. VI. VIII. E. S.I. 



#* Hairs on cal. not all straight, but some or all hooked. 



4. M. alpes'tris (Schm.) ; caL attenuate below deeply 5-cleft 

 open with fruit with straight and a few curved adpressed bristles, 

 pedicels ascending, cor. -limb longer than the tube flat, style equal- 

 ling J cal., nutlet keeled not rounded at the end, root-L on long 

 stalks pointed. E. B. 2559. M. rupicola, Sm. L. oblong- 

 lanceolate, stalks of the lower ones slender. Fl. large, handsome, 

 blue, sweet-scented in the evening. JBreadalbane mountains. 

 Micklefell, Teesdale. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 



5. M. sylvat'ica (Hoffm.) ; cal. rounded below %-5-cleft closed 

 ivith fruit, its tube with spreading hooked bristles, pedicels di- 

 vergent, cor. -limb longer than tube flat, style nearly equalling cal., 

 nutlet keeled on one side upwards bluntish,roo^.-/. on short dilated 

 stalks bluntish. E. B. S. 2630. L. oblong-lanceolate; stalks 

 of the oblong-ovate lower 1. dilated. Fl. large, handsome, blue. 

 Cal. divided more than halfway down. Shady places, rare. 

 P. V. VI. E. 8. 



6. M. arven'sis (Hill) ; cal. half-5-cleft closed with fruit, tube 

 with spreading hooked bristles, pedicels divergent, cor. -limit 

 equalling tube concave, cor.-lobes entire, style very short, 

 racemes stalked. E. B. 8. 2629. M. intermedia Link. L. ob- 

 long, acute ; lower 1. oblong-obovate, blunt. Fl. usually small, 

 A large-flowered plant found in shade is often taken for M . yl- 

 vatica. Cultivated land and thickets. A. VI. VIII. E. S. I. 



ii. Fugaces. Cal. of fruit not shorter than its stalk, its tube 

 with spreading hooked bristles. 



7. M. collina (Hoffm.) ; fr.-cal. open and ventricose as long as 

 the diverging pedicels, cor.-limb shorter than exserted tube con- 



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