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immature, and Sicilian specimens may be equally small. The Jersey 
specimens lack the reflexed pedicels mentioned in the original descrip¬ 
tion, but so do the Todaro topotypes mentioned above. The Sicilian 
specimens seen are glabrescent, while the Greek specimens have longer 
and sometimes stronger hairs ; but Sardinian specimens seem to have 
the same hairs, and the Jersey form, while usually subglabrous, is 
sometimes more strongly hairy, varying from almost one extreme to 
the other. The nutlets of the Jersey plant match those of the 
Sicilian topotypes, if allowance be made for immaturity : they are 
very unlike those of M. ccespitosa. I think we may therefore ignore 
Rouy’s names, although I have not yet been able to discover whether 
M. limitijiora Merat is a form of M. ccespitosa or (perhaps?) of 
M. sicula. The inflorescence of the Jersey and western France 
specimens is not elongated, as is characteristic in M. sicula , but that 
is perhaps due to immaturity or to the more restricted growth in the 
higher latitude. 
There is nothing in the recorded occurrences of M. sicula which 
suggest that it is likely to be introduced as an alien ; everything 
suggests that it is a dying form and that its occurrence in Jersey and 
W. France is as relict from the preglacial bora, so that one must 
assume that it has been overlooked at St. Brelade’s Bay and that it 
is a natural element in the flora. 1 should be glad if any collectors 
who have specimens of Myosotis collected there some time ago would 
let me see them. 
1 had at first thought that the plant would prove to be M. oraria 
i)umort., with the description of which in ltouy {op. cit.) it agrees 
well except that the plant is subglabrous. But it is certainly not 
M. oraria Dumortier in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vii. 350 (1868) as ” 
under M. ccespitosa. This name applies to “ une forme de Myosotis 
tres-curieuse 7 which comes from the “ vallees marecageuses des dunes 
de Flandre.” It has the entire corolla-lobes of ccespitosa , but is 
described as perennant, covered with appressed strigose hairs, and 
having - divergent branches. Dumortier asks whether it may be a 
proper species or only a dwarfed (basse) and divaricate variety of 
M. ccespitosa. There is no specimen bearing this name in Herb. 
Dumortier, but there are three sheets of ccespitosa from the dunes of 
Flanders. Two of them T consider must be regarded as syntypes of 
the name oraria, for they are labelled respectively “ Myosotis .... In 
vallibus dunarum Flandriae hyemi inundatis versus Coxyde, Nieuport, 
Furnes. Corolke lobi rotundati ! integerrimi! corolla plicata, plicis 
alternativis semiteretibus ! ” and “ Myosotis .... in exsiccatis humidis 
dunarum Flandriae versus Nieuport. Corollae segmenta ovata apice 
rotundata! nee ullo modo prsemorsa cor. 5 plicata plicis alternativis 
semiteretibus ! ” ; both have been determined by Crepm as “ vera 
Myosotis ccespitosa F. Schultz.” They certainly seem to be merely 
small specimens (15-22 cm. high), i. e. the “dune marsh” form of 
ordinary ccespitosa , and are not at all like the distinct Jersey plant. 
I think there can be little doubt that these are the types of oraria, 
since in his paper Dumortier gives definite localities for his ccespitosa, 
and none of them are on the dunes! Although he does not cite 
Nieuport, Coxide, or Furnes, and in his herbarium does not name or 
