D1ANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 25 



rated ; the floral ones lanceolate, entire. Stem erect. 

 Seeds flat. 



V. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PI. 18. mild. v. J. 73. Vahl Enum. 

 v. 1. 80. Fl. Br. 24. Engl. Bot. r. 11. t. 734. Curt. Loud, 

 fuse. 2. t. 2. Hook. Scot. 7. Fl. Dan. t.h\o. 

 Alsine foliis veronica?. Ger. Em. 613. f. 

 Alyssum. Column. Phytob. t. 28. ed. 2. 21. t.8. 



On walls, banks, and dry gravelly or sandy ground, common. 



Annual. May. 



Upright, slender, rough, pale green, about 6 inches high ; usually 

 branched at the base. Floral leaves diminished almost to brac- 

 teas, not all invariably, though generally, alternate. Fl. small, 

 light blue j white in the centre. Cal. lanceolate. Caps, in- 

 versely heart-shaped, compressed, fringed. Seeds several, ellip- 

 tical, flat, with a central dimple at one side, convex on the other. 

 This is quite a spring plant, of no note or utility. 



16. V. hederifoiid. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. Small 

 Henbit. Winter-weed, in Norfolk. 



Flowers solitary. Leaves heart-shaped, flat, five-lobed. 

 Segments of the calyx heart-shaped, acute. Seeds cupped, 

 wrinkled. 



V. hederifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 19. mild. v. I. 73. Vahl Enum. 



v. 1. 82. Fl. Br. 24. Engl. Bot. v.W. t.784. Curt. Loud. 



fasc. 2. t. 1. Hook. Scot. 7. Fl. Dan. t. 428. Poit. % Turp. 



Par. 23. t.26. 

 V. flosculis singularibus, hederulae folio, Morsus gallinse minor 



dicta. Rail Syn. 280. 

 V. folio hederae. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.99.f.3. 

 Alsine hederacea. Ger. Em. 616./. 

 A. quartum genus. Fuchs. Ic. 13. f. 



In cultivated and waste ground every where. 



Annual. April, May. 



Like V. agrestis, procumbent with many stems, which are likewise 

 hairy on two opposite sides. Seeds 2 in each cell, hemispheri- 

 cal and peltate, but more wrinkled. Leaves somewhat hairy, 

 stalked ; their middle lobe largest. Fl. light purplish blue, 

 streaked. Caps, tumid. 



17. V. triphyllos. Blunt-lingered Speedwell. Up- 

 right Chickweed. 



Flowers solitary. Upper leaves in deep, finger-like, obtuse 

 segments. Flower-stalks longer than the calyx. Seeds 

 flat. 



