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and watery places. P. VI. — VIII. Great Water Scorpion-grass. 
Forget-me-not. 
2. M. repens (Don) ; cal. open when in fr. and shorter than 
the pedicel with straight adpressed bristles : teeth narrow lanceo- 
late acirte, limb of the cor. flat longer than tube, lobes slightly 
emarginate, pubescence of the st. spreading. — E. B. S. 2703. 
St. 42. 4. M. secunda Murr. North. FI. 115. — L. rather acute. 
St. slightly angular. Clusters usually slightly leafy (1 — 4 leaves) 
below. Cor. pale blue. Style shorter than the cal. which is 
divided fully half-way down. — Boggy places. P. VI. — VIII. 
3. M. ceespitosa (Schultz!); cal. open when in fruit shorter 
than the pedicel with straight adpressed bristles : teeth narrow 
lanceolate bluntish, limb of the cor. equalling the tube, lobes en- 
tire, pubescence of the st. adpressed. — E. B. S. 2661 , St. 42. 7- 
M. lingidata Fries. — L. usually obtuse or even emarginate. St. 
round, “ with an impressed decun-ent line from the margin of the 
leaves.” Clusters usually slightly leafy below. Cor. smaller 
than in the preceding, bright blue, segments narrower and 
rounded at the end. Style very short, about as long as the tube 
of the calyx. — Watery places. P. VI. — VIII. 
4. M. suaveolens (Kit.) ; cal. attenuated below deeply 5-cleft 
open when in fruit shorter than the ascending pedicel with 
straight and a few curved adpressed bi’istles, limb of the cor. 
longer than the tube flat, root-l. on long stalks jwinted. — St. 42. 8. 
notDC. M.rupincola Sm.,E.B.2559. M.alpestris Sm.,Borr. — L. 
oblong-lanceolate, stalks of the lower ones slender. FI. large, 
handsome, blue. Style fully half as long as the calyx. — [ilf. al- 
pestris (Schm.) has blunt rounthsh or oblong-oval root-leaves 
and is jirobably a mountain form of M. sylvatica.^ — Summits of 
the Breadalbaue mountains. P. VII. VIII. S. 
5. M. sylvatica (Ehrh.) ; cal. rounded below deeply 5-cleft 
closed when in fruit shorter than the divergent pedicel : tube with 
spreading hooked bristles, limb of the cor. longer than'' the tube 
flat, root-l. on short dilated stalks bluntish. — E. B. S. 2630. 
St. 42. 6. — L. oblong-lanceolate, stalks of the ohlong-ovate lower 
1. dilated. FI. large, handsome, blue. Style usually as long as 
the calyx which is divided more than half-way down. — Shady 
places. P. V. VI. 
6. M. arvensis (Iloffm.) ; cal. half 5-clefi closed when in fruit 
shorter than the divergent pedicel : tube with spreathng hooked 
bristles, limb of the cor. equalling the tube concave, clusters stalked. 
— E. B. S. 2620. St. 42. 13. M. intermedia Link, Reich., Koch. 
— L. oblong, acute ; lower 1. oblong-obovate, obtuse. FI. small. 
Style very short. — Cultivated land and thickets. A. VI. — VIII. 
Field Scorpion-grass. 
