The following account of the origin of the name "Forget-me-not," is
extracted from Mill's _History of Chivalry_, and was communicated to
that work by Dr. A.T. Thomson:--"Two lovers were loitering on the margin
of a lake on a fine summer's evening, when the maiden espied some of the
flowers of Myosòtis growing on the water, close to the bank of an
island, at some distance from the shore. She expressed a desire to
possess them, when the knight, in the true spirit of chivalry, plunged
into the water, and swimming to the spot, cropped the wished for plant,
but his strength was unable to fulfill the object of his achievement,
and feeling that he could not regain the shore, although very near it,
he threw the flowers upon the bank, and casting a last affectionate look
upon his lady-love, he cried 'Forget me not!' and was buried in the
waters."--_Gardener's Magazine._
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