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XXII. Remarks on tbe Genus Veronica. By James Edward Sth, M. D. 
F. R. S. Prefident of the Linnean Society. 
Read May 4, 179% 
HE genus of Veronica is one of the moft familiar to Euro- 
pean botanifts. Its generic character is among the cleareft 
and moft decifive, and its fpecies in general as well afcertained as 
thofe of moft large genera... Neverthelefs fome of them are {till ob- 
fcure; and as this obfcurity has in many inftances originated with 
the great Linnæus himfelf, the removal of it is only to be expeéted 
from the inveftigation of his Herbarium and original manufcripts. 
The various remarks which I have made on this genus fhall be 
the fubjeét of the followi ing Paper. Not that they are all that re- 
main to be made, but they are all about which I am certain. As 
far as they go they will ferve to correct long-eftablifhed errors, and 
will therefore be not quite unworthy notice; though they may 
hereafter be much increafed, and perhaps correéted, by the en- 
quiries of myfelf or others. 
Dies diem docet. 
I take the fpecies on which I have any thing to remark in the 
order in which they ftand in the fourteenth edition of Syftema 
Vegetabilium, 
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