MyOSOtis.'] LIX. BORAGINACEvE. 293 
In dry shady places; chiefly in the north of England and Low- 
lands of Scotland, but not common. Surrey, Essex, and Kent; Holt, 
Norfolk. If.. 5 — 8. — Flowers very large and handsome. A smaller 
white variety is often cultivated under the name of M. alba. Various 
authors and cultivators pronounce this plant perennial (Fries says 
“perennans;” Wahlenberg, “ subperennans ”), whilst the following 
species is annual or biennial, between which and the present we 
can point, out no distinctive characters more satisfactory than the 
somewhat more deeply divided calyx of M. sylvatica, its shorter 
and less remarkably hooked bristles, the broader and flatter corolla, 
longer style, and the greater size of the whole plant. 
6. M. arvensis Hoffm. ( Field S.) ; calyx with spreading 
uncinate bristles half-5-cleft, when in fruit ovate closed shorter 
than the diverging pedicels, limb of the corolla concave equal- 
ling the tube, style very short, raceme stalked. E. B. S. 
t. 2629. M. intermedia Link. 
Very common in cultivated ground, hedge-banks, groves, &c. 0 
or <J . 6 — 8. — Although Linnteus included other plants, now re- 
garded as soecies, in his ideas of M. scorpioides and arvensis , and even 
preserved as such in his herbarium a specimen of the next species, 
yet, since it is evident from FI. Suec. that this is what he held to be the 
tvpe of the var., we think it best to follow those botanists who have 
named it M. arvensis : Fries asserts that every Swedish botanist knows 
it to be the “ ipsissimam M. arvensem Linn.:” it is, moreover, the 
only one usually found in cultivated fields. This species and M. 
sylvatica are inextricably confounded in E. FI., perhaps not unjustly. 
7. M. collina Hoflm. ( early Field S.) ; calyx with spreading 
uncinate bristles, when in fruit ventricose open equalling the 
diverging pedicels, limb of the corolla concave shorter than 
the tube, style about as long as half the calyx, raceme stalked 
usually with one distant flower at the base. E. B. S. sub fol. 
2629. M. arvensis E. B. t. 2558. M. hispida Scklecht. 
On sandy banks, wall-tops, and other very dry places. ©. 4, 5. 
— “ May at all times be distinguished from M. versicolor at a glance, 
by its brilliant blue flowers, which do not expand till by the uncurling 
of the raceme they are brought into a perpendicular position, but con- 
tinue open till the next 2 or 3 above them are expanded. Colour an 
unchangeable blue.” J. E. Bowman. 
8. M. versicolor Reich. ( yellow and blue S.) ; calyx with 
spreading uncinate bristles, when in fruit oblong closed longer 
than the almost erect pedicels, limb of the corolla concave 
shorter than the exserted tube, style as long as the calyx, 
raceme stalked. E. B. t. 2558 (ad calcem), and t. 480 (left- 
hand figure). 
Common in wet meadows, &c., as well as dry places; hence vary- 
ing much in height. ©. 4 — 6. — M. versicolor is distinguishable at. 
once from M. stricta (which is M. versicolor #. Lehm. and M. arvensis 
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