M Y O S O T I S rupicola,
J lo ck Scorpion-grass.
PENTANDRIA Monogynia.
G en.Char. Cor. salver-shaped, 5-cleft, slightly notched 5
its orifice closed with concave valves.
Spec. C har. Seeds smooth. Leaves oblong; the radical
ones on long footstalks. Clusters many-
flowered, without bracteas. Calyx divided above
half way down, its hairs copious, spreading, and
elongated,
w E have long ago received, from the Highlands of Scotland,
specimens of this plant, gathered there by Mr. G. Don, the
late Mr. J. Mackay, and other friends. Mr. W. Borrer found it
abundantly on the rocks of Ben Lawers, and has pointed out the
marks by which we have ventured to establish it as a species.
The root appears to be perennial, as in palustris, t. 1973, to
which the plant before us is most allied; but the flowers are
more large and showy than even in that beautiful species, pink
in the bud, bright blue when expanded. Their calyx is also more
deeply cut, and covered with longer, more spreading and copious
hairs, of which Mr. Borrer found the lowermost slightly curved,
though not positively hooked, and we remark the same in Swiss
specimens. The long slender stalks of the radical leaves afford
another striking distinctive mark.— We have from M. Villars a
specimen of this Myosotis, by which it proves to be what he
mentions as the alpine state of M. scorpioides, in hjs Plantes de
Dauphiné, v, 2. 458,