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M Y O S O T I S sylvatica.
Wood Scorpion-grass.
P EN TA ND R IA 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 spreading
uncinate bristles, deeply 5-cleft ; when in fruit
ovate, closed, shorter than the divergent pedicel.
Limb of corolla flat, longer than the tube. Root-
leaves on short dilated stalks.
Syn. Myosotis sylvatica. Hoffm.Germ.Fl.61. Lehm.
Asperif. 85. Link. Enum. v. 1. 165. Hook. FI.
Scot. 66. Reichenb. in Sturm FI. Deut. with a
figure. Mert. $ Koch Deut. FI. v. 2. 43. Fries
Nov. Suec. ed. 2. 64.
M. montana. Besser FI. Gal. Austr .v . 1. 142.
M. arvensis (3. Wahl. FI. Suec. 120.
M. perennis (3. DeCand. FI. Fr. ed. 3. v. 3. 629.
M. scorpioides. FI. Dan. t. 583. left hand figure.
M. scorpioides y. Huds. 78. Sm. FI. Brit. 213.
M. scorpioides sylvatica. Ehrh. Herb. 31.
M. scorpioides latifolia hirsuta. Merr. Pin. 82.
Dill, in Raii Syn. 229. t. 9 . / 2.
Scorpiurus. n. 591. (3. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 262.
A BRILLIANT ornament of dry shady places, but not
of general occurrence. It abounds in Rokeby Park and at
Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire. Merrett and Dillenius record it
as a native of Kent and of Essex, and it has been gathered
in Nottinghamshire, and in various places in the South of