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SPECIES VI.-M YOSOTIS ARVENSIS. n..jfm. 



ri.Aii: MCVIII. 



/?.-,V7.. Ic. Fl. Germ et Hclv. Vol. X\nil. Tal). MCCCXXIII. Fig. 1; 



ItHhif, Fl. Ciiill. et Germ. E.vsicc. No. ISO. 



M. iiiUTmeaiii, Ltnk: A. B.C. iu D.O. Prod. Vol. X. p. 108. Kneh, Syn. Fl. Germ. 



el IIolv. od. ii. p. 581. Orcn. & Gwlr. Fl. do Fr. Vol. II. p. 552. Ueich. fil. I. c. 



p. 73. 



Rootstock none or short, not creeping nor stolon ifcrous nor branched, 

 l>ut procliicinp^ usually numerous steins from the point where it appears 

 above ground, but no barren tufts. Steins erect, or the lateral ones 

 ascending, rather stiff, generally branched, with the pubescence in the 

 lower part rather thui, stiff, spreading. Lower leaves oblanceolate, 

 gnidually attenuated towards the base into an indistinct petiole, sub- 

 obtuse; stem leaves sossili', subdecurrent, o])long, or the upper ones 

 lanceolate-oblong, acute, tliickly clothed with short stiff' spreading 

 pubescence. Fruiting racemes shorter than the leafy part of the stem. 

 IV'dicels rather slender, spreading-ascending, usually not secund, all 

 without bracts, generally exceeding the calyx, the lower ones often 

 twice as long. Calyx with a few long adpressed hairs, and very 

 numerous spreading hairs, all of winch are hooked-pointed, ovate-ovoid 

 and closed in fruit; segments triangular-strapshaped, divided more 

 tlian half-way down. Corolla limb less than twice as wide across as 

 the length of the tube, usually concave; segments not so broad as 

 long, entire. Style less than half the length of the calyx. Nucules 

 indistinctly keeled towards the apex on the face, bordered all round. 

 I'lant dull green, without any lustre. 



Var. a, (jciitiina. 

 Plate MCVII. 



Tube of the corolla shorter than the calyx segments, limb narrow 

 and concave. Plant annual. 



Var. 3, ujnbro,<<a, Bab. 



M. arvcnsis /> dnmctorum Crep. Mon. Fl. Belp. cd. ii. p. 16-t, and Notes, fas. ii. p. 40. 

 M. nemorosa, " Fl. Tarn. p. 492 " (Crrp.). 



Tube of the corolla equalling the calyx segments ; limb broad and 

 flat. Plant more robust than in var. a, and usually biennial. 



In cultivated fields and waste places, especially in sandy and 

 gravelly soil. Veiy common, and generally distributed. Var. 3 in 

 shady woods. 



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