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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
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s in the current. In Mills History of Chivalry we read that a flower beai-ing the name of Soveigne vous de moy was, in the fourteenth century, woven into collars andworn by knights, and that one of these was the subject of a famous joiist fought in1465 between the two most accomplished knights of England and France. On thisoccasion the fair ladies of the court presented to Lord Scales, the victor, a collar ofgold enamelled with forget-me-nots. Whether the flower at that time associatedwith the name was the same as the one we now write of it is almost impossibleto ascertain. One of our great botanists suggests, with a philosophical but unpoeticalmind, that the real signification of the name is after all due to the bright blue tintand yellow eye of this charming flower, which if once seen is not likely to be for-gotten. Pliny, who, like most of the early writers, has nlwajs some wonderful taleto tell of the Egyptians, alllrms that they believe that if this jjlant is gathered on the MCV.
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E. B. 8. 2703. Myoeotis repens. Creeping Water Forget-me-not. BORAGINACEiE. 101 27tli day of Thiatis, which answers nearly to our August, and anyone anoinls hiseyes with its juice before ho speaks in the morning, he will be free from weak eyesall that year. We do not find that this much-prized plant has ever been used in anyother arts of life, yet it is a household favourite, and reminds us that there is in thehuman mind a deep and close association between the external beauty of natureand the strongest feelings of our hearts. Who but loves to meet, as Coleridgehas it— By rivulet or wet road-sideThat blue and bright-eyed flowret of the brookHopes gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not ? It is indeed prominent amongst The token flowers that tellWliat words can never speak so well. SPECIES III.—MYOSOTIS REPENS. Don.Plate MCV. Rootstock short, scarcely creeping, but stoloniferous ; stolons spread-ing above ground, with large leaves before the end of summer, atlength rooting at the apex

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