10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCORPION GRASS»
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Hand book to the herbarium, containing botanical and English ...
Narrow leaved Lung-wort. Myosotis. Scorpion-grass. 292 M. palustris. Great
Water Scorpion-grass. Forget-me-not. 293 M. caespitosa. Tufted Water Scorpion-
grass. 294 M. alpestris. Scorpion- grass. 295 M. sylvatica. Wood Scorpion-grass.
George Dixon (of the North of Engl. agric. sch.), 1845
2
Hardwicke's Science Gossip
Happy must be the botanist who has found on' the Breadalbane Mountains, or in
favoured Teesdale, the Rock Scorpion-Grass (M. alpestris). Even in scientific
books it receives a tribute of admiration: Babington speaks of it as having "large,
...
Happy must be the botanist who has found on the Breadalbanc Mountains, or in
favoured Teesdale, the Rock Scorpion-Grass (if. alpestris). Even in scientific
books it receives a tribute of admiration: Babington speaks of it as having "large,
...
4
Manual of British Botany: In which the Orders and Genera are ...
M. sylvatica limb of the corolla concave, as long as the tube ; } ~ ,, calyx 5-fid - - !
jo. M. arvensis. 1. ! 1. M. palustris. (Roth.) Great Water Scorpion Grass, or Forget
me not. Ditches and sides of rivers. Common. Fl. bright blue. June Sept.
Daniel Chambers Macreight, 1837
4. Scorpioides Bitplettrisolisio siliquis lenibus, smooth Codded small Caterpillers.
s. Scorpioides Matthioli, Scorpioides Portulace solio, Matthiolus his Scorpion
Grass with Purfiane like Leaves. 6. Myosoti-s Scorpioides pain/Iris, Water
Scorpion ...
6
Flora of Edinburgh: Being a List of Plants Found in the ...
Linn. M. palustris, With. Water Scorpion-Grass or Forget-me-not. Ditches and
sides of rivers — June-August. Duddingston, Dunfermline, Roslin, Mid-Calder,
Tynehead, Queensferry, Dollar, etc. /3. strigulosa. Duddingston Loch. M. repens,
Don.
John Hutton Balfour, John Sadler, 1863
7
Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them
The Creeping Water Scorpion-grass (M. repens), varies little from this, except in
having leaves in the cluster. I have not found a specimen. The Wood Scorpion-
grass (M. sylvatica), is a lovely plant, scarcely inferior in charm to the Water one.
8
The little English flora; or, A botanical and popular ...
Field Scorpion Grass. Myosotis arvensis. Plate 2— Fig. 15. Calyx when in fruit
closed. Limb of cor. hollow, equal to tube. A hairy plant, common on cultivated
ground, hedge banks, &c., growing four or five inches high, with very small, light
blue, ...
George William Francis, 1839
9
The British flora: in two volumes; Vol. I., comprising the ...
in two volumes; Vol. I., comprising the phaenogamous or flowering plants, and
the ferns Sir William Jackson Hooker. 8. Myos6tis Linn. Scorpion-grass. Cal. 5-
cleft. Cor. salver-shaped, the lobes obtuse, the mouth half closed with short
rounded ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1842
10
Field Flowers: A Handy-book for the Rambling Botanist, ...
The true Forget-me-not is the Water Scorpion Grass, Myosotis palustris, a robust
leafy plant which fringes the sluggish river, and frequently chokes up the smaller
streams, for which it abundantly compensates by the beauty and plentifulness of
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