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2rtli iliiy of TliiiitiM.'wliich answera neiirly to our August, and anyone anointn IiIh 

 I'yoH with itij juice bfloro he speaks in the morning', he will be free from weak eyes 

 all that year. We do not lind that this raueh-pri/A><l plant has over been used in any 

 other arts of life, yet it is a household favourit*-, and n-minds us that there is in the 

 liunuin mind a deep and close association between the external Ix-anty of nature 

 and the strongest feelings of our hearts. Who but loves to meet, us Coleridge 

 has it — 



" By rivulet or wet road-sido 

 That blue and bright-eyed flow'rot of the brook 

 Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not " ? 



It is indeed jtrominent amongst 



" The token flowers that tell 

 Wlmt words can never speak so well." 



SPECIES III.— M YOSOTIS REPENS. Don. 



Pl.AlE MCV. 



Rootstock sliort, scarcely creeping, but stoloiiiferous ; stolons spread- 

 ing above ground, vnth large leaves before the end of summer, at 

 k-ngtli rooting at the apex only. Stem erect, slightly branched, with 

 tlie pubescence in the lower part dense, stiff, and spreading. Lower 

 leaves oblanceolate, gradually attenuated towards the base into rather 

 indistinct petioles, very obtuse ; stem leaves sessile, subdecurrcnt, 

 strapshai)ed-obloTig, obtuse, thinly clotlied Avith somewhat spreading 

 pubescence. Pedicels slender, in fruit horizontal or recurved-divaricate, 

 subsecund, all wthout bracts, longer than the calyx, the lower ones 

 2 to 4 times as long. Calyx with adpressed straight hairs, funnel- 

 shaped-bcllsliaped and open in fruit ; segments triangular-strapshapcd 

 divided more than half-way down. Corolla limb flat, rather more 

 tlian twice as wide across as the length of the tube ; segments 

 about as broad as long, slightly emarginate. Style nearly as long as 

 the calyx. Plant dull green, with scarcely any lustre. 



In wet places and ditches. Widely distributed, but rather scarce in 

 England. Plentiful in Scotland, and extending to the extreme north 

 of that country. Widely distributed m Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



This plant is apparently very imperfectly kno^^^l, but apjwars to be 

 quite distinct from M. palustris, with which most of the continental 

 botanists join it, or at least its name appears as a synonym, tliough I 

 do not venture to quote it as such ^\•ithout some assurance that the 

 continental M. rcpons is really the same as Don's plant. 



The stolons of M. repens spread in all directions, and have large 

 leaves even in summer; they take root and sometimes flower the same 

 year, but more frequently not till the following spring ; they ju-c 



