PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. 249 



Herbaceous ; hairy or bristly. Leaves scattered, undivided, 

 entire, single-ribbed. Clusters terminal, many-flowered ; 

 revolute in the bud. Cor. bright blue, or yellowish ; red 

 before expansion. Seeds various ; highly polished in all 

 our species. 



* Roots pere7inial, or perhaps btentiial, 



1 . M. palustris. Great Water Scorpion-grass. 



Seeds smooth. Leaves and calyx roughish with close bristles. 

 Clusters leafless. Calyx funnel-shaped, with short broad - 

 spreading teeth. Limb of the corolla horizontal, longer 

 than the tube. Root creeping. 



M. palustris. Roth Germ. v. 1. 87. v. 2. p. 1. 221. Coinp. 33. 



Engl. Bot. V. 28. t. 1!)73. IVHh. 225. Hull 46. Relh. ed. J . 76. 



Sibih. 68. ylbbot 40. Hook. Scot. 67. Lehm. Asperif. 88. 

 M. scorpioides palustris. Ger. Em, 337. f. Linn. Sp. PL 188. Fl. 



Br. 212 J. Huds. 78. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 13. kaii Sijn. 229. 



Ehrh. Herb. 21. 

 M. scorpioides. U'illd. Sp. PL v. 1. 746. IVahlenb. Lapp. 54. 

 Scorpiurus n. 591 a. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 261 

 S. palustris perennis, viridioribus foliis. Moris, v. 3. 451. sect. U. 



^.31./. 4. 

 Echium scorpioides palustre. Bauli. Pin. 254. 

 Anagallis aquatica. Pass. Ic. p. ult.f. 49. 

 Cynoglossa minor. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 176./. 



In clear rivulets and ditches, common. 



Perennial. June — August. 



Roots very long, creeping, blackish, with numerous tufts of strong 

 fibres, i/ert bright green, rather succulent, from 6 to 12 or J 8 

 inches high. Stems ascending obliquely, round, branching, leafy, 

 either nearly smooth, or clothed with, more or less spreading, 

 bristly hairs. Leaves sessile, nearly uniform, elliptic-oblong, 

 bluntish, 1^ or 2 inches long, clothed on boih sides with small 

 close-pressed bristles, which scarcely render them rough to the 

 sight or the touch. Clusters many-flowered, 2 or 3 together, on 

 a terminal leafless stalk, or elongation of each branch ; each 

 general and partial stalk, as well as both sides of the calyx, being 

 clothed with erect, or close-pressed, short, straight, simple, rigid, 

 pale, uniform, bristly hairs. Partial stalks at first crowded into 

 a dense revolute spike, which unrolls gradually, and, after flower- 

 ing, is greatly elongated, the stalks spreading almost horizontally 

 as the seeds ripen, forming a very lax straight cluster. Calyv 

 about half the length of each partial stalk, after the flower is 

 past ; bell-shaped at the base ; the limb divided half way down 

 into 5 broad, triangular, rather expanding, segments. Tube of 

 the corolla about as long as the calyx, whitisfi ; limb longer. 



