Cynoghssum. pe.vtandria monogynta. 7 



Branches simple spreading towards the apex of the stem. — Radical 

 leaves lying mostly flat on ihe ground, from live to six inches lung, 

 soft, of a pale green, somewhat glaucous colour, rugose or bullate 

 above, with a prominent rib and large opposite sub-longitudinal 

 nerves which unite within the margins by remote arched veins; the 

 petioles about half the length of the leaves with a deep marginatecl 

 channel. — Catiline leaves scattered, acute, slightly stern-clasping 

 sometimes obscurely decurrent on one side, two or three inches 

 long, the uppermost ovate-cordate, very small. — Racemes terminal, 

 filiform, from four to eight inches long, generally twin, short-pe- 

 duncled, very spreading, recurved while young, covered with abun- 

 dance of short greyish hairs. — Flozoers small, blue, of a darker colour 

 towards their centre, unilateral at first, becoming afterwards bifa- 

 nous and somewhat remote, on short pedicels. Calyx hairy, when 

 fruit-bearing nodding ; its lacinia oval, acute, ciliate. Carol a little 

 longer than the calyx ; tube obscurely quadrangular ; lacinia, oval, the 

 mouth crowned with five short, retuse scales. — Stamina in the middle 

 of the tube ; anthers enclosed, brownish. Nuts oval, depressed, mark- 

 ed with numerous short, echinate, headed and somewhat glandular 

 bristles, attached on their inside to the angular base of the perma- 

 nent style. 



Obs. This elegant plant is extremely like a Myosotis, while m 

 blossom. The fruit, how r ever, is that of a Cynoglossnm. It comes 

 near to the preceding species, but differs in having long-oetioled 

 radical leaves which like all the rest are entire, and not, as is the 

 case in that plant, crenate. The shape of the fruit as well as the 

 colour of the flowers are also different. — N. W. 



3. C. diffusum, R.* 



Annual, diffuse, hairy. Leaves oblong, soft, hairy. Flowers so- 

 litary. Stamens hid in the gibbous tube. Seeds scabrous. 



• Lehmann, Asperiful, p. 110.— Syst. Vej. iv-7G2).— I have received specimen 

 of the plant l'rom Jsepalu gathered in the mouth of INovember.— N. W. 



