LITHOSPKRMUM. MYOSOTIS. 
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roiiwh with callous dots glabrous fleshy glaucous, nuts smooth. 
— Lithospermuin Sm., E. /j. 368. — I'd. in racemes, jmrplish-blue. 
Scales in throat of cor. yellow. Nuts closely converging. L. with 
a flavour resembling that of oysters. Differing more in habit, 
in which “ it is sui-generis,” than in character from Lithospermum. 
— Northern sea-shores. P. V. VI. 
11. Lithospermum Zmn. 
1. L. officinale (L.); st. erect much branched, 1. lanceolate 
acute veined hispid with tubercles and adjiressed bristles above 
hairy beneath, throat of the cor. with minute scales w ithin, nuts 
smooth. — E. B. 134. — FI. greenish-yellow'. Nuts gray, highly 
polished, stony, 2 or 3 rijiening in each calyx. Root whitish. — 
This is the only true Lithospermum according to Spenner, none 
of the other species having a crown of scales in the throat of the 
corolla. — Dry and stony jilaces. P. VI. — Vlll. Gromwell. 
I 2. L. jmrpureo-cceruleum (L.) ; barren st. jirostrate creeping 
f the others erect 2 — 3-fid above, 1. lanceolate acute hispid : hairs 
adpressed tubercular on the upjier side, cor. much longer than 
the calyx, nuts smooth. — E. B. 117- — FI. large, bright blue. 
Nuts “ silvery white, highly polished, slightly rugged,” rarely 
I produced. — This species and the following have no scales in the 
throat of the cor. but merely 5 longitiuhnal dowTiy' folds. They 
I belong to the genus Rhytispermvm Link, Spenn. — Thickets on a 
' limestone soil, rare. P. V. — Yll. E. 
3. L. arvense (L.) ; st. erect branched, 1. lanceolate rather 
acute hispid with adpressed tubercular hairs on both sides, cor. 
rather longer than the calyx, nuts tubercular. — E. B. 123. — FI. 
small, white. Nuts pale brown, jiolished, wrinkled, pitted, 
3 or 4 perfected in each calyx. Root bright red, communicating 
its colour to paper, &c. — Corn-fields. A. V. — VII. Corn 
Gromwell. 
12. MyOSOTIS ilMW. 
* Persistentes. 
I. M. palustris (With.); cal. open when in fr. and shorter 
than the jiedicel with straight adpressed bristles : teeth short tri- 
angular, limb of the cor. fiat longer than the tube, lobes slightly 
emarginate, pubescence ofthest. spreading. — E.B. 1973. St. 42. 2. 
: — L. bluntish, apiculate. St. angular from the prominent de- 
j current line from the margins of the leaves. Clusters quite 
leafless. Cor. large, bright blue with a yellow eye. Style about 
as long as the calyx which is divided to about ^ of its length. — 
Valuable observations on this genus by Mr. Borrer will be found 
I in Hook. Br. FI. (ed. 3.) and the Suppl. to Eng. Bot. — Ditches 
