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have got; the largest and handsomest— the water-, 

 plant (Fig. 68)^ the true forgot-me-not which, the: 

 drowning troubadour cast ashore to the feet, of his 

 lady-love. The forget-me-not, or MyosoUs genus, 

 as botanists call it, belongs to the Borage tribe, the 



Fig, 67. — Blossom of common Primrose, a, tube of corolla ; 

 hf tabular campauulate caljz. 



members of which are remarkable- for being more 

 or less clothed with stiff, rigid hairs. The primrose, 

 from which we digressed to compare corollas with 

 our little Myosotis friend, gives its own name to 

 the tribe, the Primulaceae, to which it belongs. 

 More noted for the beauty than for the useful pro-, 

 perties of its members, the tribe oflFers us most 

 excellent examples of' blossoms, regular in form. 

 First take a glance at the leaves- of the primrose,^ 

 as we shall refer to them shortly, and now take up 

 the scarlet pimpernel (Fig. 53), and, if you know it, 



