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2. M. repens Don ( creeping Witter S .) ; calyx with straight 
adpressed bristles cleft to about the middle, when in fruit open 
or connivent shorter than the diverging pedicels, teeth lanceolate, 
limb of the corolla flat longer than the tube, lobes somewhat 
emarginate, style nearly as long as the tube of the calyx, pu- 
bescence of the stem spreading. Borr. in E. B. S. t. 2703. 
Moist boggy situations in England and Scotland. It. 6 — 8. — 
In this and the next the style is overtopped by the anthers, and about 
half the length of the tube of the corolla ; when in fruit it is scarcely 
longer than the achenes. 
3. M. caspitusa Schultz (tufted Water S.) ; calyx with 
straight adpressed bristles cleft to about the middle, when in 
fruit campanulate open shorter than the diverging pedicels, 
teeth lanceolate, limb of the corolla concave (or flat when fully 
expanded) equalling the tube, style about as long as the tube 
of the calyx, pubescence of the stem adpressed. Borr. in 
E. B. S. t. 2661. 
Common in watery places, both on clay andbog. © or or 
(J, Sm .) 6 — 8. — Boot fibrous, not creeping, annual or biennial. 
Stem throwing out fibres from the lower joints. Calyx sparingly 
sprinkled with adpressed white bristles, cleft more deeply than in M. 
palustris, perhaps less than in M. repens. Corolla varying in size, hut 
usually not much exceeding the calyx. 
** Hairs on the calyx-tube ( some or all of them ) spreading, curved or 
hooked at the apex. 
4. M. alpestris Schmidt (Hock S.) ; calyx with straight and 
a few curved bristles deeply 5-deft attenuate at the base, when 
in fruit campanulate open shorter than the slightly spreading 
pedicels, limb of the corolla flat longer than the tube, style half 
as long as the calyx, achenes not carinate, root-leaves on long 
stalks. M. rupieola Sm. : E. B. t. 2559. M. suaveolens IF. et K. 
(not Poir .) 
Highland mountains, at a great elevation. On the Breadalbane 
range, extending thence to Schechallion. Cronkley Fell, Teesdale. 
7, 8. — Stem 4 — 6 inches or even 1 foot high, with patent leaves. Lower 
leaves on very long foot-stalks. Nothing can exceed the beauty of 
the large blue fiou-ers, which are at first so compact as to be almost 
capitate, then lengthened into racemes. Fries, Koch, and De Candolle 
consider this an alpine state of M. sylvatica : the chief difference 
consists in the smaller size, long-stalked radical leaves, and open, not 
closed, fructiferous calyx. 
5. M. sylvatica Hoffm. (upright Wood Si) ; calyx with 
spreading uncinate bristles deeply 5-cleft obtuse at the base, 
when in fruit ovate closed shorter than the diverging pedicels, 
limb of the corolla flat longer than the tube, style nearly as 
long as the calyx, achenes carinate, root-leaves on short dilated 
stalks. E. B. S. t. 2630. 
