the Genus Veronica. : i 193 
The lower leaves are almoft always obtufely dentated; the 
upper ones among the flowers as conftantly entire. 
V. biloba, Mant. 2. 172, is accidentally omitted by Murray... It is the 
V. orientalis, Ocymi folio, flore minimo, of Tournefort’s Corolla 
and Herbarium. 
The fpecific character and defcription in Linnzus's Mantiffa 
are very faulty; and the fynonyms of Columna (Ecphr. t. 290) 
- and C. Bauhin (Pim. 249) have no kind of affinity to the Lin- 
nean plant. 
The following defcription was made from the Tournefortian 
Herbarium, when I named the plant V. rubiacea; but as V. bi- 
. lobaisa good name already printed, it ought not to be changed. 
V. floribus folitariis, foliis cordato-lanceolatis dentatis, calycinis 
zqualibus ovatis acuminatis trinerviis. 
V. bilba Linn. exclufis fyn. Bauh. & Columnz. 
V. arvenfis annua, Chamedryos folio. Bud. C. 1, p. 24, t. 36. 
Root fibrous, annual. 
Stem three or four inches high, erect, branched, downy. 
Leaves on {hort footítalks, cordato-lanceolate, acute, ferrated, 
fcarcely hairy. 7 
Flowers folitary, on footitalks, about the top of the ftem and 
branches, alternate. ! 
Braciee lanceolate, acute, entire, flightly ciliated, a little longer 
than the footftalks of the flowers. 
Calyx of the fruit much enlarged, of four leaves, ciliated, equal, 
ovate, acute, each marked with three nerves, and not unlike 
the leaves of fome fpecies of Rubia or Galium: they much 
exceed the corolla and capfule in length. 
Corolla Ímall, white. 
: Cc Cap/ule 
