102 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



entirely above ground, not buried in the mud like those of M. palustris, 

 which are produced much later in the season, and have the leaves 

 almost scalelike until early in the folloAving spring. The original root 

 dies after ripening its seed, and the plant is continued by its stolons, 

 which become separate plants. It is much more densely hairy than 

 M. palustris ; the root leaves and those of the stolons are more narrowed 

 towards the base ; the stem leaves are more parallel-sided ; the flowers 

 are rather smaller ; the calyx much more deeply divided. From M. 

 ctespitosa it differs in having the procumbent branchlike stolons already 

 mentioned ; in the dense spreading pubescence of the stem ; the much 

 larger corolla limb ; and the calyx narrowed at the base even in fruit, 

 more deeply divided, and -with narrower segments. From both it differs 

 in being of a darker colour, without any of the greasy semi-translucent 

 appearance which distinguishes both M. palustris and M. cajspitosa. 

 The flowers have the same bright sky-blue tint and yellow eye as 

 those of M. palustris. 



Creeping Water Forget-me-not. 



SPECIES IV.— M YOSOTIS ALPESTRIS. Schmidt. 



Plate MCVI. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVHI. Tab. MCCCXXH. Fig. 2. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsiec. No. 1278. 



M. rupicola, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 2559. 



M. suaveolens, Waldst. & Kit. inWilld Enum. p. 176. Bah. ]\Ian. Brit. Bot. ed. iii. 



p. 223. 

 M. sylvatica, (i. alpestris, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 581. A. B.C. in 



B.C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 108. Fries. Sumra. Veg. Scand. p. 12. Beich. fit. 1. c. 



p. 71. Beiith. Handbk. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 325. 

 M. alpestris /3. rupicola, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. ii. p. G4. 



Rootstock short, scarcely creeping, not stoloniferous branched, the 

 branches very short, each producing a flowering stem or a barren tuft. 

 Stem ascending, rather stiff, simple or nearly so, with the pubescence in 

 the lower part rather dense and stiff, spreading. Lower leaves oblan- 

 ceolate, abruptly or gradually narrowed towards the base into distmct, 

 rather long petioles, subacute or obtuse ; stem leaves sessile, subdecur- 

 rent, oblong-strapshaped, acute, rather thinly clothed with short woolly 

 spreading pubescence. Pedicels rather stout, m fruit ascending, not 

 secund, all without bracts, about as long as the calyx, or the lower 

 ones a little exceeding it. Calj'x with long adpressed straight liairs, 

 intermixed towards the base with s[)reading incurved hairs, or rarely 

 with a few hooked-pointed haii'S, funnelshaped-bellshaped and open in 

 fruit; segments lanceolate-strapshaped, divided more than half-way 

 do\\Ti. Corolla limb flat, rather more than thrice as wide across as 

 the length of the tube; segments as broad as long, entire. Stylo 



