680 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



7. MYOSOTIS Linn. Forget-me-not. 



Low herbs, with alternate, entire leaves, and small, blue-pink to white 

 flowers, usually in many-flowered, scorpioid cymes. Calyx-lobes narrow. 

 Corolla salverform, the throat crested. Stamens included. Nutlets erect, 

 leaving flat scars. 



Species 35, widely diffused. 



M. ALBIFLORA Banks & Sol. 



Sparsely appressed-hairy. Stems many from a stout rhizome, pros- 

 trate, slender. Radical leaves spatulate, petioled; cauline, obovate- 



oblong. Flowers few, axillary, short-pe- 

 FIG. 88. diceled. Calyx campanulate. Corolla-tube 



exceeding the calyx, its lobes broad-ob- 

 long, rather short. Seeds smooth, shining 

 (Fig. 88). 



S. Patagon., Magellan; N. andS. Fuegia, 

 rare (Dusn ; "flowers not cymose, incon- 

 spicuous"). 



"Near M. antarctica, but more slender 



(Myosotis albiflora.- Plant and magnified an d nearly glabrOUS. Belongs to the 



seed. (After Dusen.) New Zealand group of the genus." (J. 



D. Hooker.) 



Family 97. VERBENACE^E. Verbena Family. 



Herbs, shrubs, or some tropical trees, with mostly opposite leaves and 

 usually zygomorphous flowers, having didynamous (rarely only dian- 

 drous) stamens inserted on the sympetalous corolla. Ovary superior, 

 of 2 carpels (not lobed), 2-4-celled, or rarely 8-io-celled. Style ter- 

 minal, simple. Fruit 2-4-achenes, or drupaceous. Seeds with little or 

 no endosperm. 



Species 1,200, widely distributed in temperate and warm climates. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



(All the Patagonian forms have spicate or racemose, that is, non-cymose, inflorescence ; and 

 seeds without endosperm.) 

 A. Flowers spicate. 



b. Fruit 4-merous, becoming 4 drupelets. i. Verbena, p. 68 1. 



