Two new species of forget-me-nots, Myosotis chaffeyorum C.A.Lehnebach sp. nov. and Myosotis mooreana C.A.Lehnebach sp. nov. are described and illustrated. These species are endemic to New Zealand and restricted to the mountains of north-west Nelson (South Island). Both species are uncommon and Myosotis mooreana is known from the type locality only. Their conservation status is rated as "Nationa...

Despite their name, the identification of seeds of Myosotis species (forget-me-not) has hitherto received little attention from archaeobotanists. In an attempt to assemble a collection of reliable identification criteria, digital image analysis was applied to photographs of Myosotis seeds by means of Fovea Pro 4.0. This program computes 23 features that describe the size and shape of the seeds ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite loci were developed as polymorphic markers for the New Zealand endemic Myosotis pygmaea species group (Boraginaceae) for use in species delimitation and population and conservation genetic studies. METHODS AND RESULTS Illumina MiSeq sequencing was performed on genomic DNA from seedlings of M. drucei. From trimmed paired-end sequences >400 bp, 484 microsatel...

A GREAT variety of affections is included under the term rheumatism. Among the public, and even in the profession, any painful condition is apt to be considered as rheumatic. In joint affections especially there is a wonderful vagueness about the use of the terms chronic rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis deformans, osteo-arthritis, and rheumatic gout. This is not to be wondered at, ho...

A taxonomic revision of the southern hemisphere pygmy forget-me-not group (Myosotis L.; Boraginaceae) is presented here. Climate-edaphic niches are modelled and compared for five species in group, namely, M. antarctica Hook.f., brevis de Lange & Barkla, drucei (L.B.Moore) pygmaea Colenso glauca (G.Simpson J.S.Thomson) one unnamed putative taxon, “Volcanic Plateau”. In this case, niche-model...