DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Veronica. ■ 13 



blue. Haller. - Flowers forming a compact head. Sometimes 

 4 or 5 teeth on the leaves. 



On Ben Nevis, and on mountains near Garway Moor, ascer- ♦ 

 tained by Mr. Dickson. — On Ren Bourdi, and Lochain y Gair 

 near Invercauld. Mr. Brown. P, Aug. 



V". Bunch terminating, somewhat like a corymbus: leaves saxa'tilis. 



opposite, nearly egg-shaped, smoothish, slightly 

 scolloped : fruit-stalks longer than the floral-leaves : 

 •stems and cups woolly. 



Fl. dan. 3V2-Ha!l. Fist. 16". \~Jacq. coll. 4. 5-H.tx. iii. - 

 22. 5-Clus. i. 347. \.-Park 55\.J. 



Leaves smooth, and almost glossy ; serratnres wide asunder. 

 Flowers mostly terminating. Bloss. blue-red, with purple lines : 

 lower segment paler, very small, not veined. Fruit egg-shaped, 

 compressed ; not notched at the end ; valves 4, acute, opening 

 with a jerk. Haller. 



On rocks ; Ben La wers. Found by Mr. Dickson. 



S. June, July* 



V. Bunch terminating, somewhat spike-like : leaves egg- serpyllifo 'iia- 



shaped, smooth, scolloped. Linn. 3-fibred. Curt. 

 Stamens hardly longer than the blossom. 



Curt. FL dan. *t§<l-Walc.-Dod. 41. l-Lob. obs. 250.4- 

 Ger. em.irZJ. 2-J. i?.iii. 285. 1-UAv. 99. Veronica mini- 

 ma repent-Pluk. 233. 1-Ger. 503. 3. 



The difference betwixt this species and the V.spicata, though 

 sufficiently obvious when the plants are compared, is not so from 

 a comparison of the specific characters as given by Linnaeus ; but 

 the stamens in the V. spicata being much longer than the blos- 

 som, whilst in the serpyllifolia they are generally shorter, the 

 distinction of the two species can no longer occasion any diffi- 

 culty ; and if the flowering be past, the 3-fibred leaves of the latter, 

 mentioned by Mr. Curtis, will still distinguish them. Stems 

 cylindrical, ascending ; several rising from the same root, but 

 frequently each has its own particular root; and if branched it is 

 only so near the root : bearing from 5 to 7 pair of leaves ; mostly 

 opposite ; the upper ones intermixed with the flowers. Leaves 

 egg-shaped, sitting, smooth, very slightly scolloped. Upper 

 floral-leaves alternate, spear-shaped, twice as long as the fruit* 

 stalks. Flowers on short fruit.stalks, one rising out of the bo- 

 som of each floral-leaf, and forming altogether a long, leafy, 

 spike-like bunch, terminating. Bloss. pale blue ; upper segment 

 with 5 or 8 purple lines, lateral segments with 3 ; smallest seg- 

 ment white. S. Vest, fringed with hairs round the edge. 



Smooth Speedwell. Pauls Be toy. Meadows and pastures, 

 not uncommon. P. May. 







