Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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eaker, and the racemes less stiff than in M. alpestris; the leaves arebroader, especially those on the stem, which have a tendency to becomelanceolate, or the upper ones even ovate-lanceolate, and the hairs uponthem are much shorter, stifFer, straighter, and finer, and those on theupper side of the leaves without enlarged glandular bases; thepedicels are longer, more slender, and more divaricate; the calyxconsiderably shorter, wider at the base, and ^vith the segments conni-vent (not spreading) in fruit, and has the hairs with hooked points muchmore numerous; the corolla is smaller, and paler blue; the nuculesare more broadly ovate-ovoid, and have a keel on the face towards theapex, so that the point forms a 3-sided pyramid, and the border ontheir edges towards the apex is less prominent than in M. alpestris.The root generally dies after flowering once, though this is said not tobe always the case. Wood Forget-me-not. French, Myosctis des Forels. German, Wald Verr/issmeinnicht. Movni.
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E. B. 8. 2629. Myosotis arvensia. Meld Forget-me-not. liOIJAGINACEiE. 105 SPECIES VI.—MYOSOTIS ARVENSIS. TLffm.. Plate MCVIII. Bck-h. Ic. F). Germ et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXXIII. Fig. 1. Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 156. M. intermedia, Linl: A. B.C. in B.C. Prod. Vol. X. p. 108. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 581. aren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 552. Eeich.fil. 1. c. p. 73. Rootstock none or shoit, not creeping nor stoloniferous nor branched,but producing usually numerous stems from the point where it appearsabove ground, but no barren tufts. Stems erect, or the lateral onesascending, rather stiff, generally branched, with the pubescence in thelower part rather thin, stiff, spreading. Lower leaves oblanceolate,gradually attenuated towards the base into an indistinct petiole, svib-obtuse; stem leaves sessile, subdecurrent, oblong, or the upper oneslanceolate-oblong, acute, thickly clothed with short stiff spreadingpubescence. Fruiting racemes shorter

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