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MYOSOTIS cæspitosa.
Tufted Water Scorpion-grass.
PENTANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. salver-shaped, with 5 obtuse lobes ;
throat furnished with short valves. Stam. included.
Fruit of 4 one-seeded lobes fixed in the
bottom of the calyx.
Spec. Char. Fruit smooth. Calyx with straight ap-
pressed bristles, deeply 5-cleft ; when in fruit
campanulate, open, shorter than the divergent
pedicel. Limb of corolla as long as the tube.
Pubescence of stem appressed.
Syn. Myosotis cæspitosa. Sm. Engl. Fl. v. 1. 250.
Hook. Brit. FI. 83. Reichenb. in Sturm Deut.
FI. with a figure. Lânk. Enum. v. 1. 165. Mert.
8$ Koch Deut. FL v. 2. 42.
M. lingulata. Fries Nov. Suec. ed. 2. 64.
C/OMMON about ponds and boggy streams, and in other
watery places, where it flowers throughout the summer,
but not in general growing in the water like M. paluslris.
Our principal figure was drawn from a specimen communicated
by the late Mr. T. F. Forster, who seems first to
have directed the attention of Sir J. E. Smith to the plant,
and in whose own Flora Tonbridgensis it was published,
as perhaps distinct from M. palustris, in 1816. In the
following year it appeared as a species, under the name of
M. maritima, in the Flora Hallandica of Fries ; but in his
later works this author has adopted for it the name of lingulata,
supposing it the plant mentioned by Lehman in his
Planter, Asperifolice, as distributed under that designation
by Schultz. The same species, it is presumed, was subsequently
named ccespitosa by Schultz himself, in a supplement
(which we have not seen) to the Flora Stargardensis,