37^ EHINANTHACEAE 



V. hederaefolia, Linn, Sp. PI, 13 (1753). Ivy-leaved Speedwell. 



Alsine hedendae folio, C, B. Pin. 250. AUine Hederacea, Gerard, 493. 



Top, Bot. 290. Syme, E. B, vi, 149, t. 970. Nyman, 549, FI. Oxf. 219. 

 Native. Agrestal. Waste and cultivated ground, especially in light 

 sandy fields, hedge-banks, and garden soil. Locally abundant 

 and with a wide range of distribution. A, February-July. 

 First record, V. hederaefolia, Dr. Noehden, in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 With white flowers at Tilehurst. 

 V. hederaefolia is found in all the bordering counties. 



[V. VERNA, Linn. Sp. PI. 14 (1753). Syme, E. B. vi. 154, t. 975. 



? Error. Poor soil in a sloping grass-field, in the parish of Wickham. 

 Two years before the field had been ploughed and put down for seed hay, 

 Miss Boioen in lit. Miss Bowen tells me she compared the plant wdth the 

 figure and description, and believes she is correct. I cannot help thinking 

 it was the heath form V. arvensis, var. nana.] 



V. didyma, Tenore, Fl. Napol. Prod. vi. (1811). Grey Speedwell. 



V. polita, Fries, Nov. Fl. Saec. ed. 2, i (1828). 



Top. Bot. 290. S^^me, E. B. vi. 150, t. 971. Nyman, 548. Fl. Oxf. 218. 

 Native. Agrestal. Cultivated ground. Common and widely dis- 

 tributed. A. Januaiy-December. 

 First record. V. polita, without locality in RusselVs Cat. 1839. 

 V. didyma is found in all the bordering counties. 



V. agrestis, Linn. Sp. PI. 13 (1753). Green Speedwell. 



Alsine foliis Trissaginis, Gerard, 492. V. versicolor, Fries, Nov. ed. 2 



(1828) 2 (not of Visiani). 



Top. Bot. 290. Syme, E. B. vi. 151, t. 972. Nyman, 548. Fl. Oxf. 218. 



Native. Agrestal. Cornfields, garden-ground, waste places, heaths, 



wall-tops. Common and generally distributed, but in some 



localities less frequent than the preceding species. A. Jan. -Dec. 



First recorded, but without locality, in Russell's Catalogue, 1839, 



When the calyx segments are serrated it is the var. calycida, Fries, 

 see Fl. Danica, t. 2221 ; but I have not observed this form in Berkshire. 

 V. agrestis is found in all the bordering counties. 



V. Tournefortii, Gmel. Fl. Bad. i. 39 (i8o6\ 



V. persica, Poir. in Lam. Enc. Meth. viii. 542 (i8o8\ V. Buxhaumii, 

 Tenore, Fl. Napol. Prod, i, 7 (1811). 



Top. Bot. 291. Syme, E. B. vi. 152, t. 973. Nyman, 548. Fl. Oxf. 219. 

 Colonist. Agrestal. Cultivated fields and garden-ground. Common 



and widely distributed. A. January-December. 

 First recorded as V. filiformis. Brimpton, Rev. H. Kirby, 1825, in Herb. Oxf. 



Published as V.Buxbaumii by Mi-. W. Pamplin in Phyt.v. 156, 1854. 

 V. Tournefortii occurs in all the bordering counties. 



