MYOSOTIS PALUSTRIS. 
NAT. CLASS,—DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,—BORAGINEÆ. ART. CLASS — 
PENTANDRIA ; ORDER,—MONOGYNIA. 
This has a long black root with strong fibres, 
and a weak branching stem ; the whole herbage more 
orless clothed with bristly hair, but much more 
nearly smooth than the very closely allied species 
which grow in drier places. The leaves are sessile, 
ovate-oblong. The upper extremities of the branches 
are forked, each fork bearing a scorpioidal cluster of 
flowers, and there is frequently a single flower placed 
in the fork. The flowers are pink in the bud, but 
turn to a beautiful cœrulean blue when expanding. 
The calyx is inferior, monosepalous, and persistent, 
with five deeply-cut segments. The corolla is mo- 
nopetalous, salver-shaped, with a short tube, and 
spreading limb of five rounded segments, at the base 
