326 BORAGiNACE*. [Myosotis. 



W. Med. — Plentiful in a drain along the road between the Debborn turnpike 

 and Gurnet farm. 



3. M. ccBSpitosa, Schultz. Tufted Water Scorpion - grass. 

 " Calyx with straight appressed bristles when in fruit campanu- 

 late open shorter than the divergent pedicels, teeth narrow-lan- 

 ceolate bluntish, limb of the corolla concave (or flat when fully 

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

 stem appressed."— iSr. Fl. p. 277. Borr. in E. B. S. t. 2661. 



In shallow drains, ditches, pools and plashy places ; not uncommon. Fl. May 

 —August. 11, Gaud. ; 71 ov $ , Sm. ; Q,M. et K. 



E. Med. — In Sandown marshes, not uncommonly. In a little pool in a field 

 near Coppid Hall. Ditches in the meadows at the bottom of Brading marshes, 

 Mr. W. Wilson Saunders. 



W.Med. — Plentiful in a little cut or drain across the little plot of planted 

 ground at the entrance of the marsh at Easton (Freshwater Gate). 



The whole 'plant is pale green, with a smooth, shining, translucent aspect. 

 Root fibrous, annual, biennial, or even peiennial according to different authors. 

 Stem erect or reclining, and rooting from the lowermost joints, about a foot high, 

 much branched, roundish, succulent, thinly clothed with fine, while, close-pressed 

 hairs. Root-leaves somewhat spathulate, those of the stem elliptical or obovato- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, a little thickened at the tip but not mucronate, entire, and 

 clothed like the stem with the same white close-pressed pubescence, smoother 

 beneath, their margins a little inflexed. Floivers in long, leafless, spreading 

 racemes, like those of M. palustris but much smaller, bright blue with a yellow 

 eye, the base of each segment of the corolla whitish. Pedicels (in fruit) secund, 

 oblique, divergent, the uppermost suberect, all finally elongating and at length 

 deflexed. Calyx bell-ihaped, cleft nearly half way into 5 ovate bluntish segments, 

 and covered like the pedicels with appressed hairs. Limb of the corolla a little 

 exceeding the calyx, its segments rounded, entire, not much longer than the tube; 

 scales bright golden yellow. Nuts ovate, gibbous on the side next the style, very 

 smooth and shining, with a thin sharp edge all around their vertical circumfe- 

 rence. 



4. M. arvensis, Hoffm. Field Scorpion-grass. " Calyx with 

 spreading uncinate bristles half-5-cleft when in fruit ovate closed 

 shorter than the divergent pedicels, limb of the corolla concave 

 equalling the tube, style very short, raceme stalked."— /?r. Fl. p. 

 277. E. B. S. t. 2629. M. intermedia. Link. 



In open cultivated fields and waste places, also in woods, groves, thickets and 

 on shady hedgebanks ; very common, i^^. June — August. 0. 



5. M. collina, Hoffm. Early Field Scorjnon-grass. " Calyx 

 with spreading uncinate bristles when in fruit ventricose open 

 equalling the divergent pedicels, limb of the corolla concave 

 shorter than the tube, style about equal to the tube of the calyx, 

 raceme stalked usually with one distant flower at the base." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 278. E. B. S. sub. fol. 2629. M. arvensis, E. B. t. 2558. 

 M. hispida, Schlecht. 



On banks, wall-tops, pastures and waste ground, in dry sandy soil ; abundant. 

 Fl. April — June. 0. 



F.Med. — Amongst low bushes on the Dover, Ryde, plentiful. Dover spit, 

 St. Helens, abundant. [On the churchyard-wall in Newchurch shoot, abundantly. 

 Dr. Bdl-Satter, Edrs._] 



W. Med. — On Carisbrooke-castle walls, and on the dry turf beneath them, G. 

 Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



