752 BORAGINACEAE. | Myosotis. 
Sourn Istanp: Otago—Cliffs on the eastern and southern coasts, Lindsay, 
Buchanan ! Petrie! Stewart IstAND AND IstaNDS IN FovEaux Srrair: Plentiful 
on coastal cliffs, J. W. Stack, Petrie! T. Kirk ! Cockayne! Poppelwell. THE SNarRzEs 
AND SOLANDERS: 7. Kirk! Cockayne. December—February. 
Drffers from M. capitata in the larger size and stouter habit, and in being far more 
copiously hairy. The inflorescence is more developed, and the flowers are white. But 
the most important difference is in the position of the anthers, which stand altogether 
above the level of the corolla-scales, not below, as in M. capitata. 
10. M. explanata Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 464, — Perennial ; 
clothed in all its parts with short hardly rigid spreading white hairs; 
rootstock long, stout; stems usually numerous, simple, decumbent below, 
ascending or suberect above, leafy, 6-12 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, 
2-41n. long, linear- obovate or oblong-spathulate or linear -spathulate, 
obtuse or rarely subacute, narrowed into rather long broad petioles, mem- 
branous, uniformly but rather sparsely clothed on both surfaces with short 
soft white hairs; cauline smaller, sessile, linear-oblong or lanceolate. 
Racemes short, simple or branched, many-flowered, in the early flowering 
stage forming dense heads. Flowers large, 4 in. long, 4-2 in. diam., pure- 
white, very shortly pedicelled. Calyx rather more than 4in. long, hispid 
with straight or curved hairs; lobes linear, obtuse. Corolla-tube slightly 
longer than the calyx, slender, cylindrical, throat with 5 scales ; limb broad, 
flat, spreading, with 5 rounded lobes. Stamens included: filaments very 
short; anther-tips level with the corolla-scales. Style long, slender. 
Nutlets narrow-oblong, obtuse, shining, black.—JUl. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 143. 
SoutH IstanD: Canterbury—Mountains above Arthur’s Pass, 7. F. C., Cockayne / 
Walker’s Pass, Cockayne. 3000-4500 ft. January. 
A very handsome plant. It differs from the typical state of M. capitata in the 
large pure-white flowers (which are quite twice the size of those of M. capitata), in the 
large calyx, and in the more membranous less hairy leaves. M. albida recedes in its 
larger size and coarser habit, and particularly in the anthers, which are altogether above 
the level of the corolla-scales, whereas they are always below in M. explanata. 
ll. M. Traversii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 194. — Perennial; 
much branched from the base, 2-6in. high; everywhere densely hispid 
with erect or spreading straight or hooked stiff white hairs: rootstock 
long, stout ; stems erect or ascending, stout, leafy. Radical leaves 1-1 4$in. 
long, $-31n. broad, linear-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into short petioles, 
coriaceous, both surfaces rough and hispid; cauline numerous, linear- 
oblong, sessile, erect. Racemes many-flowered, short, simple or branched, 
capitate, very densely hispid. Flowers }4in. long, sessile or nearly so, 
lemon-yellow, sweet-scented. Calyx densely hispid with straight or hooked 
hairs, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes linear, acute. Corolla-tube + longer than the 
calyx, narrow funnel-shaped, throat with 5 scales; lobes short, rounded. 
Stamens included ; filaments very short; anthers with their tips Just above 
the level of the scales. Style slender, almost equalling the corolla. Nutlets 
narrow-ovoid, obtuse, polished and shining, brownish-black.—OCheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 464. M. cinerascens Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ] (1918) 207. 
Var. Cockayniana_ Cheesem. — Very similar to the type, but stouter and more 
copiously covered with stiffer and whiter appressed hairs. Structure of flowers exactly 
as in the type.—M. Cockayniana Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlv (1913) 269. 
__ Sout Isnanp: Bare shingle-slopes on the higher mountains, not uncommon in 
Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, and Westland, less abundant in Otago. Var. 
Cockayniana : Shingle-slopes in the Upper Awatere, Cockayne ! 
A well-marked plant, whose nearest ally is the following species, 
