DIANDRIA—MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 17 



undivided lobes, die lower one smallest, ujipcr broadest. 

 Filarn. spreading, tapering downwards. Anth. oblong. 

 Go'vieji 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. Root annual or per- 

 ennial. Stem branched. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, 

 simple, indented, sometimes pmnatifid; never really com- 

 pound; floral ones alternate. Flowers alternate, mostly 

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

 palest ; ujiper darkest ; dark hues radiating from the 

 mouth. Calyx various, affording the best specific cha- 

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

 Wiilfenia. Qualities insignificant. 



* Clusters or sjJi/ces terminal. Root perennial. 



1. V. spic.ata. Spiked Speedwell. 



Spike terminal. Leaves blmitly serrated about the middle 

 only ; their base tapering into a footstalk : radical ones 

 obovate. Stem ascending, quite simple. 



\ . spicata. Linn. Sp. PI. 14. IViild. v. 1. bQ. Vcilil Enum. v. 1. 

 60. Fl.Br.lD. Engl.Bot.v.l. t.2. Schrad. Germ. v. \. 15. 

 Ft. Dan. t.i)2. 



V. n. 542. Hall. Hist. i^. 1.234. 



V. spicata recta minor. Bauh.Uist. v.Z. p. 2. 282./. Raii Sijn. 2/9. 



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



V. recta minima. Clus.llist.v.l.347.f. Ger. Em. 627. f. Lob. 

 Ic. r. 1.472./. 



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

 about Bury St. Edmund's. 



Perennial. Juli/ — Sept. 



Root somewhat creeping. Herb from 4 to 8 inches high, minutely 

 hairyj hairs often in lines on the stem. 1 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. hy brida. Welsh Speedwell. 



Spikes terminal. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, unequally and 

 bluntly serrated : lowermost ovate, stalked. Stem nearly 

 upright, not perfectly simple. 



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