Lithospermum. | LIII. BORAGINE#. all 
parts of North America. Common in England and Ireland, but rare 
in Scotland. fl. spring and summer. 
3. L. purpureo-ceruleum, Linn. (fig. 698). Creeping G.—Stock 
perennial, with procumbent, leafy stems, often 2 feet long or more, and 
shorter ascending or nearly erect flowering stems, ending in a leafy 
forked cyme. Leaves lanceolate and hairy. Flowers nearly sessile, of 
a rich blue, rather large, but usually shorter than the leaves; the calyx 
segments narrow. Nuts smooth and shining. 
In thickets and open woods, in central and southern Europe, from 
the Atlantic to the Caucasus. Rare in Britain, and only in Wales and 
some of the southern counties of England. l. summer. 
V. MYOSOTIS. MYOSOTE. . 
Annual or perennial, low or rather weak herbs, with oblong or linear 
stem-leaves ; the radical ones broader, shorter, and stalked ; the flowers 
small, blue or white, in 1-sided racemes, either forked or simple, 
without bracts at the base of the pedicels. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. 
_ Corolla with a small, straight tube, half-closed at its mouth by 5 short 
scales, and a spreading, flat or concave, 5-lobed limb. Stamens in- 
cluded inthe tube. Nuts smooth and shining, compressed or triangular 
attached by their small base. 
A numerous genus in Europe and northern Asia, scarce in North 
America, but reappearing in Australia. Although the characters which 
separate it from Anchusa appear slight, it is very distinct in habit. 
Some exotic species are cultivated in our flower-gardens, together 
with varieties of M. palustris, M. sylvatica, and M. collina. 
Calyx-teeth short or not divided beyond the middle. Hairs of the 
calyx appressed . ; ; 5 ~ As Le POLUSILUSs 
Calyx deeply cleft, the hairs spr eading or hooked. 
orcs as long’ or longer than the calyx, 3 to 6 inches long when 
mM frult. 
Perennial with rather large flowers. Limb of the corolla flat . 
Annual or biennial, with small flowers. Limb of the corolla 
to 
. M. sylvatica. 
often concave . 3. M. arvensis. 
Pedicels not above a line long, usually, shorter than the calyx. 
Annuals, 
Stem ascending or branched from the base. Calyx usually j 
open after flowering. Corolla always blue . 4, M. collina. 
Stem erect, simple at the base. Calyx always closed after 
flowering. Corolla at first yellow, afterwards blue . « 5. M. versicolor. 
1. M. palustris, With. (fig. 699). Water M., Forget-me-not.—Perennial, 
stock usually slightly creeping ; the stems weak, ascending, from 6 to 
18 inches high, often nearly glabrous, but sometimes rather thickly 
clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves glabrous or with appressed hairs. 
Flowers of a bright clear blue, with a yellow eye, very variable in size, 
but usually rather large for the genus. Calyx never divided below the 
middle, whilst in all other British species it is deeply cleft. 
In wet ditches, and by the sides of streams, in Europe, Russian Asia, 
N. India, and northern America, extending into the Arctic Circle. 
Abundant in Britain. J. the whole summer. Modern botanists divide 
it into three: the true Forget-me-not, which is often nearly glabrous, 
with a broad flat corolla, and short broad teeth to the calyx ; JM. repens, 
