DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 1 1 



V, Spikes terminating : leaves opposite, bluntly serrated, hy'brida, 



rough : stem upright. Linn. Spikes cylindrical : 

 leaves spear- egg-shaped. 



E. hot. 6~ j- Ray 11. good. 



Stems simple, ascending, about a span long. The terminating 

 spike oblong. Leaves oval, rather blunt, downy, green on both 

 \ sides ; serratures large, blunt. Leaf-stalks bordered. Linn.— 



• Bloss. blue, the tubular part hairy within. Leaves thick and 



j fleshy, rough, with short white hairs, which grow out of small 



prominent glands. 



, Welsh Speedwell. Bugle*lea<ved Speedwell. On Craig 



Wreiddin, Montgom. [Umpherhead, a steep rock at Cartmel 

 Wells, plentiful. Mr. Hall.] P. July. ' ■ 



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V. Spike terminating : leaves heart-shaped, sitting: floral- arven'sis. 



leaves spear-shaped, longer than the flowers. 



Curt. 133-E. hot. 734-Co/. phyt. 8-J. B. in. 56j, 2- 

 Ger. 489. 8-Ger. em. 5l3. 7 -Park. 762. 4. 



This plant has hitherto stood in the 3d subdivision of the 

 species, next after the V, agrestis, with the following character 

 by Linnaeus : « Flowers solitary : leaves heart-shaped, jagged ; 

 " longer than the fruit-stalk/'-but it bears its flowers in such a 

 spike-like form, that many Botanists have been deceived in their 

 expectations of finding it in the 1st subdivision, and after much 

 trouble have at length determined it to be the V. spicata, though 

 not quite agreeing with the character. It must be allowed that 

 the term spike is often used by Linnaeus himself with a greater 

 latitude than its strict definition permits, and very often with 

 Jess propriety than in the present instance. 



Leaves hairy ; marked with 3 longitudinal grooves. Flowers 

 about a month later than the V. agrestis. Mr. Dickenson. 



Plant mostly upright, stiff and dry in its habit. Root-leaves, 

 and sometimes the lower stem-leaves on leaf-stalks. Bloss. pale 

 blue. 



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Wall Speedwell. Chlckweed. On old walls ; amongst rub- 

 bish : and fallow fields. A. May. 





V. Spike terminating: flowers solitary: leaves with fin- verna. 



ger-like divisions; fruit-stalks shorter than the 



calyx. 





E. hot. 25- Rose. 2. l-Fl. dan. 252. 



Stem, stiff, upright. him.-Leaves cut into winged clefts ; in 

 one specimen gathered near Bury, spear-shaped, toothed, 7 lines 

 long, though the whole plant only 2 inches high. Woodw.- 

 Cat, much longer than the blossom, and deeply divided into 4 



