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panded) equalling the tube, style very short, pubescence of the 

 stem appressed. Borr. in JE. B. S. t. 2661. 



Common in watery places, both on clay and bog. ©or ^. (l/. or 

 ^. Sm.) 5y 6, — Moot fibrous, not' creeping, annual or biennial. 

 Stem throwing out fibres from the lower joints. 



Calyx sparingly 

 sprinkled with appressed white bristles, cleft more deeply than in M» 

 mlustriSi perhaps less than in M, repens. 

 usually not much exceeding the calyx. 



Corolla varying in size, but 



** Hairs on the calyx-tuhe spreading, curved or Jioohed at the apex\ 



4. M. alpestris Schmidt (Rock S.) ; calyx with straight and 

 a few curved bristles deeply 5 -cleft attenuate at the base, when 

 in fruit campanulate open shorter than the slightly spreading 

 pedicels, limb of the corolla flat longer than the tube, achenes 

 not carinate, root-leaves on long stalks. M. rupicola E. B. 



t. 2559. 



W. 



Highland mountains, at a fi^reat elevation. 



On the Breadalbane 



Stem 4 



¥. 7, 8. 

 Lower 



range, extending thence to Schechallion. Cronckley Fell. 



—6 inches or even 1 foot high, with patent leaves, 

 leaves on very long foot-stalks. Nothing can exceed the beauty of 

 the large blue flowers, which are at first so compact as to be almost 

 capitate, then lengthened into racemes. Fries, Koch, and De Candolle 

 consider this an alpine state of M. syhatica : the chief diflPerence 

 consists in the smaller size, long-stalked radical leaves, and open, not 

 closed, fructiferous calyx. 



5. M. syhatica HofFm. (upright Wood 

 spreading uncinate bristles deeply 5-cleft obtuse at the base, 

 when in fruit ovate closed shorter than the diverging pedicels, 

 limb of the corolla flat longer than the tube, style nearly as 

 long as the calyx, achenes carinate, root-leayes on short dilated 

 stalks. E. B. S. t. 2630. 



In dry shady places; chiefly in the north of England and Low- 

 lands of Scodand, but not common. Surrey, Essex, and Kent; Holt, 

 Norfolk, 7/., 5 — 8. — Flowers very large and handsome. A smaller 

 white variety as often cultivated under the name of M alba. 



S.) ; calyx with 



Various 



authors and cultivators pronounce this plant perennial, (Fries says 

 " perennans ; " Wahlenberg, " subperennans,") whilst the following 

 species is annual or biennial, between which and the present we 

 can point out no distinctive characters more satisfactory than the 

 somewhat more deeply divided calyx of M. sylvatica. Its shorter 

 and less remarkably hooked bristles, the broader and flatter corolla, 

 longer style, and the greater size of the whole plant. 



6. M, arvensis Hoff'm. (Field S,) ; calyx with spreading 

 uncinate bristles half-5-cleft, when in fruit ovate closed shorter 

 than the diverging pedicels, limb of the corolla concave equal- 



> "?^3^ *^^^' ^^y^^ ^^^y s^^rt, raceme stalked. 

 ^' -^629. M, intermedia Link. 



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JS. B. S 



