PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. W 
with broad spreading teeth: limb of the blossom the length of 
the tube : root fibrous. 
Stems numerous, a.foot high, crowded, erect, much branched, leafy, and 
many-flowered. Whole herb of a weaker, paler, more lax habit than the 
foregoing, having always a leaf or two at the base of each cluster. 
Flowers smaller, paler, and far less conspicuous. Calyx rather more 
deeply five-cleft, with fewer, more dispersed and lax bristles. The plant 
remains unchanged by cultivation, and is doubtless a very distinct 
species. 
Tufted Water Scorpion-grass. M. ccespitosa. Schulz. Reichenbach. 
In watery places. Near Tunbridge. Binfield, Berks. Mr. T. F. Forster. 
P. May—June. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(M. intermedia. Seeds smooth: leaves hairy: clusters leafless: 
tube of the calyx clothed with hooked bristles: segments with 
straight upright hairs : root creeping: stems decumbent. 
FI. Fan. 583, largest figure. 
Herb of a dull green, copiously clothed with lax spreading hairs. Stems 
several, very hairy, leafy, more or less branched, from four to ten inches 
high. Leaves oblong; the lowermost often obovate, and tapering at the 
base. Clusters in pairs or solitary, on terminal, upright stalks. Hairs 
on the general and partial stalks erect, but not closely pressed. Partial- 
stalks, when in fruit, longer than the calyx, spreading not quite horizon¬ 
tally. Calyx bell-shaped in the lower half, and plentifully clothed with 
spreading, partly brownish, hooked bristles; in the upper half deeply 
five-cleft; the lanceolate converging segments covered with straight, 
erect, silvery hairs. Bloss. bright blue, almost equal in size and beauty 
to that of M. palustris. 
Trailing Hairy Scorpion-grass. M. intermedia. Link. Reichenbach. 
In dry shady places. In a small wood at Edgefield, near Holt, Norfolk, 
in a perfectly dry situation. Rev. R. B. Francis. On hedge banks, near 
Norwich, towards Keswick. Mr. J. Backhouse. 
P. April—May. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(M. SYLVAThcA. Seeds smooth: leaves hairy: clusters with a leaf 
at the base: tube of the calyx clothed with hooked bristles: 
segments with straight upright hairs : root fibrous : stems erect* 
Sm. 
Fill, in j R. Syn. t. 9.f. 2. 
Stems about one foot high, with soft spreading hairs. Pedicels short ill 
flower, then elongated and patent, at length erecto-patent, twice as long 
as the calyx. Flowers large, pale blue, but not equal to those of M. pa. - 
lustris. Hook. 
Wood Scorpion-grass. JVC. sylvatica. Lehm. JH. scorpioides y. FI. Brit, 
In woods and dry shady places, frequent. P. June—July. E.) 
(M. alpes'tris. Seeds smooth: leaves hairy, radical ones but half 
the length of their foot-stalks: clusters forked at the base, leaf¬ 
less : calyx deeply five-cleft, clothed with upright hairs; the 
lowermost incurved: root fibrous, tufted. Sm. 
Hook . FU Lond. 14 5—E, Bot. 2559— Barr. Ic , 404. 
