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Myosotis.] Racemes many-flowered, short, simple or branched, capitate, very densely hispid. Flowers ¼–⅓ in. long, sessile or nearly so, lemon-yellow, sweet-scented. Calyx densely hispid with straight or hooked hairs, deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear, acute. Corolla-tube ⅓ longer than the calyx, narrow funnel-shaped, throat with 5 scales; lobes short, rounded. Stamens included; filaments very short; anthers with their tips just above the level of the scales. Style slender, almost equalling the corolla. Nutlets narrow-ovoid, obtuse, polished and shining, brownish-black.

11. M. angustata, Cheesem. n. sp.—Size, habit, and general appearance of M. Traversii, and like it everywhere densely hispid with straight or hooked stiff white hairs. Leaves usually narrower, ½–1½ in. long, ⅛–⅙ in. broad, narrow linear-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, gradually narrowed towards the base. Racemes manyflowered, short, simple or branched, when young forming a capitate head to the branches, very densely hispid. Flowers about ⅓ in. long, sessile or nearly so, white. Calyx densely hispid with straight or hooked hairs, divided about two-thirds way down; lobes linear, erect, acute. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, cylindrical, throat with 5 scales; lobes short, rounded. Stamens with filaments as long as the anthers, so placed that the anthers are wholly above the level of the scales, their tips reaching half-way up the corolla-lobes. Style slender, exceeding the corolla. Ripe fruit not seen.

12. M. albo-sericea, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 738.—Perennial; everywhere silvery white with closely appressed silky hairs; rootstock stout, woody, clothed with the remains of the old leaves; flowering stems one or several, rather slender, 3–6 in. high. Radical leaves very numerous, densely tufted, ½–1 in. long, $1⁄10$–$1⁄8$ in. wide, narrow linear-spathulate, acute, gradually narrowed into a petiole longer than the blade, coriaceous, uniformly silky on both surfaces; cauline few, distant, ¼–⅓ in. long, linear-oblong or