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Cor. pale blue. Cal. divided fiilly halfway down. Boarer 

 places. P. VI.— Vni. E. g. I. 



3. M. cesspitdsa (Schultz !) ; fr.-cal. open, its teeth narrow lan- 

 ceolate bluntish, cor.-limb equalling the tube, its lobes entire, style 

 very short, pubescence of the st. adpressed. — E. B. S. 2661. M. 

 lingulata Lehm. (name only). — L. usually blunt or even emar- 

 ginate. St. round, with a decurrent line. Raceme usually 

 slightly leafy below. Cor. smaller than in the preceding, bright 

 blue, segments narrower and rounded at the end. Style about 

 equalling the cal.-tube. — Watery places. P. VI. — Vtll. 



E. S. I. 



** Hairs on cal. not all straight, but some or all hooked. 



4. M. alpe^tris (Schm.) ; cal. attenuate beloiv deeply 5-cleft 

 open with fruit with straight and a few curved adpressed bristles, 

 pedicels ascending, cor.-limb longer than the tube flat, style equal- 

 ling 5 cal., nut keeled not rounded at the end, root-l. on long 

 stalks pointed. — E. B. 2539. M. rwpicola Sm. — L. oblong- 

 lanceolate, stalks of the lower ones slender. Fl. large, handsome, 

 blue, sweet-scented in the evening. — Summits of the Breadal- 

 bane mountains. Micklefeil, Teesdale. P. VII. Vni. E. S. 



5. M. sylvat'ica (Ehrh.) ; cal. rounded below deeply deleft closed 

 with fruit, its tube with spreading hooked bristles, pedicels di- 

 vergent, cor.-limb longer than tube flat, style nearly equalling cal., 

 nut keeled on one side upwards bluntish, root-l, on short dilated 

 stalks bluntish. — E. B. S. 2630. — L. oblong-lanceolate ; stalks 

 of the oblong-ovate lower 1. dilated. Fl. large, handsome, blue. 

 Cal. divided more than halfway down. — Shady places, rare. 

 P. V. VI. E. S. 



6. M. arven'sis (Lehm.) ; cal. half deleft closed with fruit, 

 tube vsdth spreading hooked bristles, pedicels divergent, cor.- 

 limb equalling tube concave, cor.-lobes entire, style very short, 

 racemes stalked. — E. B. S. 3629. M. intermedia Link. — L. 

 oblong, acute; lower 1. oblong-obovate, blunt. Fl. usually 

 small. A large-flowered (0. umbrosa) plant foimd in shade is 

 often taken for M. sylvatica. — Cultivated land and thickets. 



A. VI.— vm. E. S. I. 



ii. Pugaces. Cal. of fruit not shorter than its stalk, its tube 

 with spreading hooked bristles. 



7. M. collina (Hoffm.) ; fr.-cal. open and ventricose as long as 

 the diverging pedicels, cor.-limb shorter than ezserted tube con- 

 cave, style about equalling J cal., racemes stalked usually vnth 1 

 distant flower, fr.-pedicels spreading, hairs on the 1. straight. — 



