the Genus Veronica, 195 
The figure of Buxbaum erroneoufly reprefents the plant alto- 
gether {mooth, and the floral leaves acute. : 
V. fliformis, foribus folitariis, foliis cordatis crenatis pedunculo bre- 
vioribus, calycinis lanceolatis. i 
V. orientalis, foliis hederz terreftris, magno flore. Tourn. Cor. et 
Herb. Buxb. C. 1, p. 25, t. 40, f. 1. 
Gathered by Tournefort in the eaft. Buxbaum fays it grows 
about hedges in Bithynia. It fhould be placed next to V. hede- 
rifolia. 
Root appears to be annual. 
Stems filiform, procumbent. 
Leaves alternate, on fhort footftalks, fubrotundo-cordate, crenate, 
_ (not lobed or cut) notches about three on each fide, clothed 
with a few fcattered articulated hairs, as in V. hederifolia. 
Flowers folitary, axillary, large. 
~- Footfalks filiform, downy, three times longer than the leaves, : 
Leaves of the Calyx equal, lanceolate, flightly downy, 
- Corolla twice as long as the calyx, fpreading, blue. 
Capfule obcordate, reticulated. ; 
_ This plant is very like V. hederifolia in many refpects, but í is 
- fufficiently diftinguifhed from that fpecies by its leaves being cre- 
nate and not five-lobed, the fegments of its calyx lanceolate, 
not ovate, and by the very long filiform footftalks of its flowers. 
Cc 2 v XXIII. De. 
