of both linear, one-nerved, truncated or émarginate, the stem 
erect, branched, as well as the size and whole habit, show these 
specimens to belong to C. autumnalis. 
3. verna, 1, Linn.—All the specimens, 2-3 inches long, fructiferous, 
with 2 petals, styles in part persistent, leaves opposite, 3-nerved, 
spathulate, uppermost ones rounded, belong to C. verna, of Linn 
and recent authors. à 
4. C. verna, B. Linn.—Numerous specimens, which are fructiferous, 
an inch long, some erect, others creeping, all with a long filiform 
root; the leaves very short (a line long), linear, sneis € 
far as can be judged from the dried specimens), the sty. 
persistent. Which characters, as well as the habit, which re 
that of Bulliarda aquatica, does not all answer to the de: 
of Linnzus in Fl. Suec. and Species Plant. ; but they agree be | 
with C. verna, 8 minima, Wahl. Fl. Suec., and with C. verna, 6, 
Hartm. Fl, ed. 4. 
DIANDRIA. 
26. VERONICA. - 
l. spuria, H. V. 11. Linn. F. spicata, angustifolia, C. B. Pin. 6, 
Smith.—Is a form of V. spicata, of the western shores of Sweden, 
with numerous terminal and axillary elongated spikes, the 
lanceolate, coarsely and obtusely serrated, opposite or ternate 
7. hybrida, 7. Veronica, Flora Suec., (which, however, except 
word Veronica, appears to be afterwards erased, and below 
written) figura in Ry. Near one margin of the paper a st 
added, ¿in insula Moclari Flásklóian, and near the other 
11. 1. 7—all written by Linn.—The authentic specimen 
locality above quoted, exactly corresponds with the deserip 
Flora Suec., having the leaves of V. officinalis, with the 
inflorescence of spicata. The plant is a foot high ; the tern 
lanceolate, thick, crowded, 4 inches long; the axillary 
short, on leafy peduncles; leaves of the peduncles 1 
nearly entire ; superior cauline ones broadly lanceolate or oblo 
lower ones petiolate, ovate, all subhirsute and crenate. In ha 
therefore, by no means in inflorescence, it rather resembles [ 
n. nalis, but in the spikes altogether spicata, of which twos 
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