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bente ascendente v. e basi ramoso folioso, foliis obovatis obtusis lobatis marginibus recurvis, calyce
campanulato 4-lobo, corollæ (amplæ) brevis v. elongatæ limbo patente, antheris bai-batis duarum posticarum
loculo unico mutico altero calcarato, capsula membranácea late obovata obtusa calyce inclusa.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islauds. Top of the Euahine mountains, Colenso.
A smaU species, 1-3 inches high, with very large flowers, only to be distiuguislied from E. antárctica ¡3 by
the hairy anthers; of these the anterior pan have blunt lobes, the posterior have one blunt and one spurred tobe.
In this respect it agi'ees with E. cuneata, of which it may prove an alpine small state.
4. Euphrasia repens, Hook. fll. ; perpusiUa, puberula, caiüe repente vage ramoso, foliis sessilibus
cuneatis trilobis lobis Unearibus acutis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis floribnsque erectis, calycis oblongo-
campaiiulati lobis acutis, antheris glabris, loculis subæqualiter mucronatis.
H a b . Middle Island. Bluff Island, Lyall.
A very curious little species, 1-2 inches long. Stems and branches creeping, throwing out fibrous roots from
the joints Uaves very smaU, 1 - l i lin. long, smooth or pubendous, in scattered opposite patos, sessile, eimeate
three-lobed; lobes acute, erect. Flowers very large for the size of the plant, ¿hortly pedicellate, erect. Ccdyx
oblong, eampamdate. four-lobed; lobes acute. CorolU A inch long, with a long tube. AntUrs aU smooth, their
lobes nearly equally spurred. Ovarium pubescent.
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Gen. I. MYOSOTIS, L.
Cafyir 5-partitus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, fauce fornicibus clausa; limbo 4-partito, obtuso
Antheræ peltate. Stigma capitatum. Nnces 4, distincte, basi umbilicatæ.
Herbaceous plants, more or less hispid or pubescent, with radical and cantone, quite entire, alternate leaves
and leafy or naked cymes or racemes, that are circinate in bud, and bear small flowers, whicli vary much, and often
change colour. Flosvers generally small, blue, very variable in size in the same species. Calyx flve-parted. CorolU
ypocratenform or infundibuliform, with a short tube, closed at the mouth with scales; lobes blunt Fruit of four
small, generally polished, one-seeded nuts.-This genus abounds in the Northern Hemisphere, but is comparatively
rare m the Southern. (Name from a mouse, and our, an ear; from the appearance of the leaves.)
5 a. FUmers in terminal racemes, without bracts. Anther, included. CorolU hypocrateriform.
I . Myosotis capitata. Hook. fll. ; tota molliter pilosa, caulibus e radice plurimis ascendentibus robustis
fobosis simplicibus V. apice divisis, foliis radicalibus plurimis lineari-spathulatis v. iigulato-obovatis obtusis
planm utnnque subsenceo-pilosis, racemis simplicibus v. compositis plurifloris junioribus subcapitatis,
floribus amplis, calycis lobis linearibus obtusis, corollæ tubo æqmlongis v. brevioribus. Fl. Antarct.
p. OD. t, 01.
Ha b . Middle Island. Port William and Euapuke Island, Lyall.
By far the largest and most beautiful New Zealand species, originally found in Lord Auckland’s Group where
to grows near the sea. Whole plant covered with soft white appressed hairs, ifoais woody, with tufted black
fibres S le ^ several, sometimes rising from a woody black rhizoma, 6-10 inches high. Radical leaves 3-5 inches
long, 1 mch broad, linear, ligulate or spathulate, blunt; cauline numerous, smaller. Racemes simple or compound
robust, very many and densely-flowered. Flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx 2 lines long. CorolU 2-3 lineé
broad.
2. Myosotis 1, Ecem. et Sch. ; annua ? tota dense hispidulo-pilosa, caulibus plurimis elongatis
ascendentibus gracilibus foliosis^ foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis orbiculatis spathulatisve apiculatis caulinis
brevius spathulatis, racemis simplicibus aphyUis elongatis laxe multifloris, pedicellis calyce æquilongis,
calyce pilis patentibus sæpe uncinatis tecto profunde 5-lido corollæ tubo breviore, antheris inclusis,
iiucibus calyce campanulato inclusis orbiculatis late ovatisve obtusis compressis pallide fuscis nitidis. Roeni.
et Sch. Syst. Veg. A. Cunn. Frodr.
H a b . Northern and Midclle Islands, Banks and Solander. East coast, etc., Colenso. Akaroa, Port
Cooper, etc., Raoul, Lyall.
Very variable in size, and rather so in habit. Stems covered everywhere with somewhat hispid hairs, numerous,
ascending, slender, leafy. Radical leaves -f-lg inch long, on petioles I 4 inch or less, broadly ovate or orbicular,
apiculate; cauline spathulate. Racemes leafless, sometimes 8 inches long. Flowers nmnerous, rather remote,
on spreading pedicels 2 lines long. Chfyo? hispid, quinquefid to below the middle, campanulate in fruit. Corolla
very variable in size, 2-4 lines across the mouth. Anthers included. Nuts two, very small, broadly ovate, blunt, or
orbicular, compressed, pale yellow-brown, polished.
3. Myosotis australis, Br. ? dense hispido-pilosa, caulibus e radice plurimis erectis, foliis oblongo-
lanceolatis lineari-spathulatisve obtusis, floribus breve pediceUatis, calyce 5-partito pilis uncinatis patentibus
hispido. Br. Frodr. BC. Frodr.
H ab. Middle Island. Otago, elev. 1800 feet, LyaU.
I have only one specimen of this plant from Dr. Lyall, a very good one, but only in flower; it agrees entirely
with Tasmanian and Australian specimens of M. australis, and may be readily recognized by the copious, spreading,
hooked hairs on the calyx, more abundant than in M. Forsteri, from which it also diifers in the more deeply divided
calyx, short pedicels, and narrower sessile leaves. The corolla is larger than in the usual Tasmanian state.
§ b. Stems procumbent, diffuse, leafy throughout. Flowers solitary or axillary on the stems. Anthers included.
4. Myosotis antárctica. Hook. hi. ; parvula, hispido-pilosa, caulibus elongatis brevibusve et cæspitosis
prostratis apicibus ascendentibus foliosis, foliis obovato-oblongis spathulatisve, floribus axiUis foliorum
superiorum solitariis breve pedicellatis, corollæ fauce squamulis clausa, nueibus ovatis subacutis compressis
atris nitidis. Fl. Antarct.p. 57. t. 38.
H a b . Northern Island. East coast and interior, chiefly in dry, stony, and mountainous places.
A very small species, variable in habit according to exposm-e, hispid and pilose ; seedling plants simple and
slender, older ones with a perennial root, and prostrate, often cæspitose, leafy branches, 1-4 inches long. Leaves
inch long, obovate, spathulate, sessüe ; cauline smaller. Flowei's very minute, blue, yellow, or purple, nearly
sessile, axillary, solitary. Calyx deeply four-cleft, strigose. Corolla tube exserted, mouth closed irith scales.
Anthers included. Nut small, compressed, ovate, subacute, black, shining.—This species was originally discovered
in Campbell’s Island.
5. Myosotis Eorst. ; liispido-püosa, caulibus gracilibus prostratis elongatis vage ramosis
laxe foliosis, foliis petiolatis orbicularibus obovatis spathulatisve obtusis apiculatis, floribus solitaiiis axillaribus
extra-axillaribusve pedicellatis parvis, calyce 5-partito, corollæ subinfundibuHformis fauce nudo, filamentis
gracilibus medio tubi insertis, antheris 4-exsertis, stigmate clavato, nueibus brunneis obtusis. Forst.
Prodr. BC. Frodr. Anchusa spathulata, Rom., et Sch. A. Cunn. Frodr.
Hab. Northern and Middle Islands. Dry stony places, not unfrequent, Banks and Solander, etc.
Whole plant pilose and rather hispid. Steins many from the same root, slender, prostrate, sparingly leafy,
4-10 inches long. Leaves petiolate, 4“ 1 inch long, orbicular or broadly ovate, blunt, apiculate. Funoers small
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