DIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 17 



undivided lobes, the lower one smallest, upper broadest. 

 Filam. spreading, tapering downwards. Anth. oblono-. 

 Germen compressed. Style thread-shaped, as long as the 

 stamens, declining. Stigma small, notched. Caps, va- 

 rious in shape, ovate, elliptical, or inversely heart-shaped, 

 compressed, of 2 cells, and 4 valves, more or less easily 

 separable. Seeds numerous, roundish, compressed, or 

 peltate, or umbilicated. 

 Herbaceous, or somewhat shrubby. Moot annual or per- 

 ennial. Stem branched. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, 

 simple, indented, sometimes pinnatifid; never really com- 

 pound ; floral ones alternate. Flowers alternate, mostly 

 blue ; rarely flesh-coloured, or white ; the lower segment 

 palest; upper darkest; dark lines radiating from the 

 mouth. Calyx various, affording the best specific cha- 

 racters. A genus not very nearly akin to any other, except 

 Wulfenia. Qualities insignificant. 

 * Clusters or spikes terminal. Root perennial. 



1. V. spicata. Spiked Speedwell. 



Spike terminal. Leaves bluntly serrated about the middle 

 only ; their base tapering into a footstalk : radical ones 

 obovate. Stem ascending, quite simple. 



V. spicata. Linn. Sp. PL 14. Willd. v. 1. 56. Vahl Enum.v.l. 

 60. Fl. Br. 15. Engl hot. v.l.t. 2. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 15. 

 Ft. Dan. t 52. 



V. n. 542. Hall Hist. v. 1. 234. 



V. spicata recta minor. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 282./. Raii Syn. 279. 



V. spicata minor. Vaill Par. 200. t. 33./. 4. 



V. recta minima. Clus. Hist. v. 1.347. / Ger. Em. 627./. Lob. 

 Ic. v. 1.472./ 



In high dry chalky pastures, especially on Newmarket heath, and 

 about Bury St. Edmund's. 



Perennial. July — Sept. 



Root somewhat creeping. Herb from 4 to S inches high, minutely 

 hairy j hairs often in lines on the stem. I have never seen it 

 branched. Leaves oblong, opposite ; the lowest stalked ; upper- 

 most, sometimes all, linear and entire. Flowers on very short, 

 if any, partial stalks, deep blue, numerous. Bracteas linear, 

 downy like the calyx. Cor. bearded at the mouth, as in V. hy- 

 brida. 



2. V. hybrida. Welsh Speedwell, 



Spikes terminal. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, unequally and 

 bluntly serrated ; lowermost ovate, stalked. Stem nearly 

 upright, not perfectly simple. 



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