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for i)i these days a considerable share of metrical celebrity is 
awarded to the sentimental favourite of modem Poetasters, the 
Forget-me-not; which, delicate, and dear, and beautiful 
as it is, the indiscriminate eulogy and fashionable pre-eminence, 
now given to it, serve to render less pure and poetical in the 
eyes of the true votaries of Nature and Romance than many a 
yet unpraised flower. The very libellous portraits, or rather 
caricatures, of this fair favourite, exhibited in Albums and 
giaphic delineations of all grades, with the universal spirit for 
“ illustrating” the said libels, suggested the rather unromantic 
lines accompanying the plate in the present volume. 
The Alyosotis Palustris, Great Water Scorpion Grass, or 
true Forget-me-not, grows very abundantly beside most of our 
running brooks and rivers, the roots being chiefly in the loose 
watery mud of the banks. The flowers, which are of a delicate 
blue, appear in June and July; the leaves are smooth, without 
hairs on any part, and of a bright light green. I thus describe 
the features of the real Forget-me-not, because other species 
are continually being mistaken for the true one. Among other 
instances of this, the illustrator of a recent serious work on 
Flowers, although professedly a botanical draughtsman, gives 
the Myosolis Alpestris instead of the M. Palustris, and so 
exaggerates the hairy surface of the leaves that they seem 
ecjuipped in winter clothing from some fliiry-furrier’s. The 
rough-leaved Scoi-]hon Grasses are found in sandy fields, on 
mountains, &c.; and a very minute kind flourishes in beautiful 
little tufts on old walls and ruins. The very origin of the 
name establishes the Myosotis Palustris as the real owner 
