190 Dr. Smitu’s Remarks on 
3. V. [puria is Veronica fpicata anguftifolia. C. B. Pin. 246, as ap- 
pears from the Sherardian Herbarium at Oxford. 
|. 30. V. officinalis B is moft certainly a diftinét fpecies from the com- 
mon e. It is plentiful on the Alps of Switzerland and France; 
and I have frequently compared it, in its native foil, with the 
common V. offic. growing in the fame place. 
I prefer the name of V. Allionii, which has been given it 
by Villars, to that of V. pyrenaica, by which Allioni has 
diftinguifhed it, as it is by no means peculiar to the Pyrenean 
Mountains. Its fpecific character is as follows: 
V. Allonii, {picis lateralibus pedunculatis, foliis oppofitis 
fubrotundis nitidis rigidis, caule glabro reptante. 
Synonyms. 
V. Allionii. Villars, Plantes de Dauphiné, v. ii. p. 8. 
V. pyrenaica. All. Flo. Ped. 265, t. 46, f. 5. 
V. No. 2. Gerard. Flo. Gall. Prov. 422. 
ES Defcription. 
Root perennial, creeping. 25 ameet: 
Stem round, fmooth, procumbent, creeping very far. 
Leaves roundifh, or obovate, firm, rigid, totally different in 
fubftance from thofe of V. officinalis, {mooth, fhining, 
_crenate, paler on the under fide. 
Sprkes oval, denfe, on long footftalks. 
Flowers very numerous, violet-coloured, of a different figure 
. from thofe of V. officinalis. 
Villars mentions a variety with hairy leaves and ftem, 
which I have never feen. 
12. V. kamt/chatica, Linn. Supp. 83, appears to me a variety of V. 
aphylla, only differing in the greater fize of all its parts. The 
circumftance . 
