. Flowers of the field. Botany. 202 COROLLIFLOR^ blue, and the tube of the corolla is bent, which distinguishes it horn any other British plant of the Order. Waste ground, common.—Fl. June to August. Annual. 8. Anchusa (Alkanet) 1. A. sempervirens (Evergreen Alkanet.)— A stout bristly plant, with deep green, egg- shaped leaves and short spikes of rather large salver-shaped flowers, which are of an intense azure-blue. It is not a native, but in Devon- shire it is not an uncommon hedge plant.— Fl. June to August. Perennial. 2. A. officinalts (Common Alkanet).—i^/onycrs purple, funnel-shaped, gro
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 202 COROLLIFLOR^ blue, and the tube of the corolla is bent, which distinguishes it horn any other British plant of the Order. Waste ground, common.—Fl. June to August. Annual. 8. Anchusa (Alkanet) 1. A. sempervirens (Evergreen Alkanet.)— A stout bristly plant, with deep green, egg- shaped leaves and short spikes of rather large salver-shaped flowers, which are of an intense azure-blue. It is not a native, but in Devon- shire it is not an uncommon hedge plant.— Fl. June to August. Perennial. 2. A. officinalts (Common Alkanet).—i^/onycrs purple, funnel-shaped, growing in one-sided spikes, the segments of the calyx being longer than the corolla. It is frequent in gardens, from which it is a not uncommon escape, but it is extremely rare in a wild state.—Fl. June, July. Anchusa Sempervirens (Evergreen Alkanet) g. Myosotis {Mouse-ear, Scorpion-grass, Forget-me-not) I. M. palustris (Forget-me-not).—Calyx covei'ed with straight, closely-pressed bristles, open when in fruit; root creeping.—Watery places, common. Few flowers have been more written about than the Forget-me-not, yet there is great disagreement among writers as to the plant to which the name properly belongs. Some appear to have had the Alkanet in view; others, the Speedwell; and others, again, some of the smaller species of Myosotis, which last, though very like the true Forget-me-not, are inferior in size and brilliancy of colour. The real Forget-me-not is an aquatic plant, with a long rooting stem, bright-green, roughish leaves, and terminal, leafless, one-sided clusters of bright blue flowers, with a yellow eye, and a small white ray at the base of each lobe of the corolla. The species which is most like it is M. repens (Creeping Water Scorpion-grass), which, as its narne implies, has also a creeping root; the hairs of the calyx are closely pressed, as in M. palustris, but the calyx is closed when in fruit, and the clusters of flowers usually have a fe
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