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18 bis. Myosotis Townsoni, Cheesem. n. sp.—Perennial; more or less densely hispid with soft spreading white hairs;. rootstock rather long, prostrate, branched; stems few or many, slender, leafy, prostrate or decumbent below, ascending or erect at the tips. Radical leaves on long slender petioles. ⅓–⅔ in. long; blade ½–1 in. by ¼–⅓ in., oblong-spathulate or linear-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, membranous, upper surface densely hispid with soft white hairs, often almost glabrous beneath. Cauline leaves numerous, narrow-oblong, sessile or the lowermost petiolate. Flowers in the axils of the upper cauline leaves or forming few-flowered racemes terminating the-stem, ¼–⅓ in. long, ⅕–¼ in. diam., sessile or the lowermost shortly pedicelled. Calyx hispid with coarse white hairs, 5-lobed below the middle; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube cylindric, much longer than the calyx; throat* with 5 scales; limb broad flat, with broadly oblong lobes.page 1146Stamens inserted between the corolla-scales; filaments slightly longer than the linear anthers, which are wholly above the level of the scales. Nutlets ovoid, shining, black. |
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