106 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or Biennial. Spring to 

 Autumn. , 



Steins in var. a G to 18 inches high, generally with numerous 

 hranches, in this respect resembling ]\I. ciespitosa; sometimes, however, 

 when the stems are very numerous from the rootstock they are simple; 

 pubescence often very abundant and stiff, leaves narrower and more 

 parallel-sided than in M. sylvatica, the lower ones not so distinctly 

 stalked ; racemes at length 3 to 8 inches long ; the pedicels less 

 spreading than in M. sylvatica; the calyx with more numerous hooked 

 hairs, and the segments more connivent over the nucules. Corolla 

 1 to ^ inch across, rather dull blue. Nucules shining black, Avith a 

 less evident keel than in M. sylvatica, but a more conspicuous border, 

 which runs round the whole of the lateral margins from the base to 

 the apex. 



Var. 3 is very often mistaken for M. sylvatica, but it is a stouter 

 ])lant, with the stem usually more branched, the leaves more parallel- 

 sided, the hooked-pointed haii-s on the calyx more numerous, the 

 corolla little more than J inch across and of not so bright a blue, and 

 the plant agrees with the typical form of M. arveusis in the fruiting 

 calyx and nucules. 



Field Forget-me-not. 



I'rcncli, ]\rt/osof!s clrs champs. German, MUflcres Vcrgi'ssmdnnwlit. 



SPECIES VII.— MYO SO TIS COL LIN A. Heich. 



Plate MCIX. 



Fcich. le. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXXHI. Figs. 2 and 3. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 157. 



M. hispida, " Schlecht." A. B.C. in B.C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 108. KocJi, Syn. Fl. 



Germ, et Helv. p. 582. Grcn. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 581. Belch, fil. 1. c. 



p. 72. 

 M. arvensis, 8m. Engl. Bot. No. 2558 and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 252. 



Rootstock none. Stem erect or ascending, weak, branched towards 

 the base, with the pubescence in the lower part dense, stiff, spreading. 

 Lower leaves oblanceolate, gi'adually attenuated towards the base into 

 an indistinct petiole; stem leaves sessile, subdecurrent, oblong or 

 elliptical-oblong, subacute, thickly clothed with rather long stiff 

 pubescence, all alternate. Fruiting raceme longer than the leafy part 

 of the stem. Pedicels rather slender, in fruit spreading or spreading- 

 ascending, usually not secund, the lowest one commonly distant fioni 

 the others, and with a Icaflike bract at the base, all shorter than the 

 calyx, or the lowest ones equalling it. Calyx Avith a few long ad- 

 pressed hairs, and veiy numerous spreading ones, all of which are 

 hooked-pointed, widely bellshapcd and open in fruit; segments trian- 

 gular-stnipsliaped, divided halt- way down. Corolla limb about as 



