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4. Myoporum montanum, or mountain myoporum : 
leaves linear-lanceolate, very (harp, tapering-at the bafe; 
branches fmooth ; fegments of the calyx linear, acute. 
Gathered in New South Wales by Mr. Brown. 
5. Myoporum humile, or clwarf niyoporum : leaves li¬ 
near, fomewhat fpatulate, bluntilh, without veins ; ffem 
procumbent. Found by Mr. Brown on the fouth coaft of 
New Holland. 
'6. Myoporum parvifolium, or fmall-leaved myoporum : 
leaves linear, bluntilh, tapering at the bafe; fomewhat 
toothed at the extremity ; glandular, as well as the 
branches; flower-(talks here and there deeply divided, 
above half the length of the leaves ; Item diffufe. Native 
of the fame country, and fufpedted by Mr. Brown to be 
perhaps but a variety of the lalt. 
II. Leaves alternate, ferrated ; fruit fwelling; nut of 
four cells. 7. Myoporum afeendens, or afeending myo¬ 
porum : leaves obovate-oblong, bluntilh, bluntly fer¬ 
rated from beyond the middle; branches fmooth, alcend- 
ing ; Item diffufe. Native of New Holland. 
8. Myoporum laetum, or (hining-leaved myoporum: 
leaves oblong, fmooth, naked and fhining; (lightly ler- 
rated at the extremity; corolla hairy. Native of New 
Zealand. 
9. Myoporum pubefeens, or downy-leaved myoporum-. 
leaves oblong-elliptical, ferrated, downy. Found by 
Forfter in the fame country as the laft. This appears to 
be the only fpecies that has any pubefcence, except in the 
flower. 
10. Myoporum crafiifolium, or thick-leaved myopo¬ 
rum : leaves flefhy, oblong, (lightly ferrated. Native of 
Botany-ifland. 
11. Myoporum infulare, or infular myoporum: leaves 
lanceolate, tapering at the bafe, ferrated at the end ; 
branches fmooth, glutinous when young; ftetn eretfl. 
Gathered by Mr. Brown in the fouth part of New Holland. 
12. Myoporum ferratum, or ferrated myoporum : leaves 
lanceolate, very (harp, ferrated ; branches fmooth. Ga¬ 
thered by Labillardiere in Lewin’s Land, and by Mr. 
Menzies at King George’s Sound : Mr. Browm alio ob- 
ferved it in the neighbouring parts of New Holland. 
Flowers many together, erefit. 
13. Myoporum tuberculatum, or tubercular myoporum : 
leaves lanceolate, acute, (errated ; branches covered with 
glandular tubercles. Gathered by Mr. Brown in the 
South of New Holland ; and by Mr. Menzies in the Sand¬ 
wich Iflands. 
14. Myoporum vifeofum, or glutinous myoporum : 
leaves elliptical, acute, ferrated, reflexed; branches vifeid 
and glandular. In the fouth of New Holland. 
III. Leaves alternate, toothed; fruit compreffed ; nut 
frequently with but two cells. 15. Myoporum platycar- 
pum, or broad-fruited niyoporum : leaves linear-lanceo- - 
late, toothed at the end ; branches fmooth ; fruit com¬ 
prefled, of two cells, four times as long as the calyx; 
fern ereft. From New Holland. 
16. Myoporum debile, or (lender-ftemmed myoporum : 
leaves lanceolate, toothed at the end, entire at the bafe ; 
fruit (lightly comprefled, fhorter than the calyx ; flower- 
(talks folitary ; Hera proftrate. Native of the country 
near Port Jackion, whence it was fent to England in 1793, 
by colonel Paterfon. The Aem is faid to be naturally 
proftrate, but it may be trained to a confiderable extent, 
againft a flick or trellis. The branches are alternate, 
purplilh, warty. Leaves fmooth, toothed here and there, 
but many of them are quite entire. Flowers axillary, on 
(hort (talks, blue, erefif, for the mod part folitary, very 
rarely two together: blofloms in the greenhoule from 
April to September, and ripens feed, by which, as well as 
by cuttings, it is readily increafed, if aflifted by heat. 
17. Myoporum diffufum, or fpreading myoporum: 
leaves lanceolate, with fomewhat recurved teeth at their 
bafe ; toothed or entire at their extremity ; Items diffufe, 
glandular; flow'er-ftalks folitary; fruit (lightly comprefled, 
fhorter than the calyx. Gathered by Mr. Brown in the 
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tropical part of New Holland. It feems very nearly akin 
to the 13th fpecies. 
IV. Leaves oppoflte. 18. Myoporum oppofitifolium, 
or oppofite-leaved myoporum : leaves feffiie, heart-lhaped, 
ferrated. Found by Mr. Brown on the fouthern coaft of 
New Holland. The Item in every known fpecies is (hrubby. 
Young branches, and tender leaves, often coloured and 
vifeid. There is fcarcely any pubefcence, except within 
the (lower, whole ffyle, as well as corolla, is often bearded 
or hairy. v 
M Y'OPY, f Shortnefs of fight. 
MY'ORY. See Schouten’s Island. 
MYOSHOR'MOS, in ancient geography, a fea-port of 
Egypt, placed by Ptolemy and Pliny in the Red Sea. 
Arrian fays, that it was one of the molt celebrated ports 
of this fea. It was alfo called the Port of Venus. 
MYOSO'TtS, /! [this word,derived from p.v<;, a moufe, 
and w-rior, a little ear, the diminutive of a.?, an ear, has 
been applied by the ancients, as well as by many modern 
botanilts, to feveral plants, whole leaves, in their (hape 
and foft hairinefs, anfwer to the above idea. Among 
them is the prefent genus, for which Dillenius and Lin¬ 
naeus have retained the name.] Mouse-ear Scorpion- 
crass; in botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of afperifoliae, (borraginete, 
Juff.) Generic Characters—Calyx : perianthium half-five- 
cleft, oblong, eretff, acute, permanent. Corolla : one- 
petalled, falver-lhaped ; tube cylindric, (hort; border 
half-five-cleft, flat; fegments emarginate, blunt; open¬ 
ing clofed with five convex, prominent, converging, 
fcalelets. Stamina: filaments five in the neck of the 
tube, very (hort; antherai very lmall, covered. Piftillum : 
germens four; flyle filiform, the length of the tube of the 
corolla ; ftigma blunt. Pericarpium: none; calyx larger, 
eredt, cheriihingthe leeds in its bofiom. Seeds: four, ovate, 
acuminate, fmooth. Some fpecies have feeds with even 
furfaces; others, with hooked prickles .—Effential Cha- 
raB.tr. Corolla falver-fliaped, five-cleft, emarginate ; the 
opening clofed with arches. There are twelve fpecies, 
belides varieties. 
1. Myofotis fcorpioides arvenfis, or hairy moufe-ear 
fcorpion-grafs : feeds fmooth and even ; tips of the leaves 
callous. Hairy moufe-ear fcorpion-grafs, has an annual 
fibrous root. Stems feveral, procumbent, alcending, or 
erefif, according to circumftances, a long fpan or a foot 
in height, or even fomewhat more in moiff (ituations or 
ftrong land, angular,-villofe, branching towards the top 
for flowering: branches axillary, alternate. Leaves al¬ 
ternate, quite entire, bent back a little at the edge, hav¬ 
ing no apparent veins, but a very ffrong rib along the 
back, which makes a (hallow channel along the upper 
furface, of a light green colour, villofe on both (ides and 
along the edge, and fomewhat rugged : the lower leaves 
are elliptic or oblong, blunt, running down into the pe¬ 
tiole, three inches long, and fometimes more, meafured 
from the flem ; the middle and upper ones are lanceolate, 
(harpifh, fefllle or half embracing, from an inch and a 
half to two inches in length ; both are half an inch or 
five lines in width. Flowers in racemes, vvhilft young 
bending in at the top, whence the names of fcorpioides, 
Jcorpiurus, and Jcorpioii-grafs, from the fimilitude to a 
fcorpion’s tail ; as the flowering advances, lengthening 
out very conliderably and divaricating; they are alter¬ 
nate, in a double row, and all grow one way, each on its 
proper pedicle. Calyx villofe, deeply five-cleft, clofing 
at top as the feeds ripen ; corolla red before it opens, but 
when open of a fine blue, with a yellow eye; not more 
than a tenth or a twelfth of an inch in diameter. The 
above defeription was made on the 2d of June, 1798, from 
plants growing wild in a garden, in hedges, and by a 
brook. But the plant varies much, according to the (oil 
and (ituation in which it grows On barren paftures, 
heaths, and walls, the plant and flowers are both much 
fmaller ; it has been leen fcarcely more than an inch in 
height, bearing one minute flower only. 
Merret 
