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M y o s o t i s a r v em î s .
Field, Scorpion-grass.
PENTANDRIA Monogynià.
G en.Char. Cor. sal ver-shaped, 5-cleft, si ightly notched ;
its orifice closed with concave valves.
Spec. C har» Seeds smooth* Leaves oblong. Branches
spreading. Clusters many-flowered, without
bracteas ; their lower stalks axillary and remote*
Calyx ovate, with spreading incurved bristles.
Syn. Myosotis arvensis. Roth. Germ. i). 2. 222»
With. 225. Sibth. 68. Abbot. 40. Willd. Sp. PL
v. I . 7 4 7 .
M. scorpioides arvensis. Linn. Sp. PI. 188.' Huds.7 8.
Sm. FI. Brit. ot. 212. Ehrh. Herb. 41. Beitr*
v. 5. 1 76.
M. scorpioides hirsuta* Raii Syn. 220.
C o m m o n in dry fields, and on sunny sandy banks, flowering
early in Summer.
The accurate observations of Mr. W, Borrer, and a comparison
of them with those of preceding botanists, have enabled us
Still further to correct the British history of this genus, and to
define all the four supposed varieties of M. scorpioides as distinct
species, besides describing a new one in t. 2559.
The present has an annual root. Stem divided from the
bottom into wide-spreading branches. Stem-leaves more tapering
at their base than in the other species. Clusters long; very
lax in their lower part, the lowest flowerstalk, and sometimes
several more, axillary,v and becoming remarkably distant as the
upper flowers are developed. Calyx ovate, clothed with numerous
spreading hooked bristles. Corolla palish pUrple before it
expands, then sky-blue, its valves sunk in the tube, which is
longer in proportion than that of M. paluStris. See t. 1973 ;
and substitute the following synonyms and characters at
tab. 480, J ig . 1,
MYOSOTIS versicolor.
Y e llow and blue Scorpion-grass.
Spec. Char. Seeds smooth. Leaves oblong. Branches
ascending. Clusters many-flowered, on long
naked stalks, without bracteas* Calyx ovate,
with spreading incurved bristles.
S yn. Myosotis scorpioides (2. Sm. FI. Brit. 212, with
the synonyms.
M. scorpioides collina. Ehrh. Herb. 51. Beitr. v. 5.
177.
F O U N D in dry sandy places, and in somewhat boggy meadows*
Flowers yellow when they first expand j then blue.