6 VJillONICA. [class 11. OKDFR I. 



flabitat.—Chtd^y ground about Buiy St, Edmund's and Newmarket 

 Heath. Kare. 

 Perennial ; llowcring July aud August. 



V. hyh'rida, (Fig. 6.f) Welsh Speedwell, of Engl. Botany, t. 673, and 

 Engl. Flora, vol. i. p. 17, is now thought to be only a variety of the 

 above; indeed, Dr. Hooker deems it scarce worthy of being com- 

 memorated as a variety, and to difler only in its more luxuriant 

 growth. The whole plant is larger, with broader, more oval and 

 distinctly veined Leaves, stalked, often three in a whorl, unequally 

 serrated, the lowermost ova'.e and broader. Ste)n erect and gene- 

 rally bearing three spikes. The whole plan' is stouter, rougher, 

 and much larger. 

 Habitat. — Humphrey Head, near Cartmel Wells, Lancashire. — 



Ormeshead, and Gloddaeth, near Conway ; Craig Wreiddim, in 



Montgomeryshire. Rare. 



2. V, serpyl'lifolia, (Fig. 7.) thyme-leaved Speeduell. Raceme 

 somewhat spiked, leaves ovate, obtuse, slightly crenate, three rib- 

 bed, smooth, capsules inversely reniform, about as long as the style. 



English Botany, t. 1075.— English Flora, vol. i. p. 20. — Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 188. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 5. 



/3. V. alpi'na ; stems prostrate. V. humifu'sa, Dicks. Linn. Tr. vol. 

 ii. p. 288. 



Root fibrous. Stem ascending, branching from the base. Leaves 

 opposite, frc([uently entire, lower ones on footstalks, upper ones nearly 

 sessile. Calyx segments, obovate, equal, blunt. Corolla light blue 

 or flesh-coloured, with dark blue veins. Capsule in the immature 

 state inversely heart-shaped (obeordate), when ripe inversely kidnej'- 

 shaped (reniform). The whole plant is more or less downy, depending 

 upon the .situation in which it has grown : if in a wet place, it is smooth 

 and shining ; in a dry one, it is clothed more or less with pubescence. 



Habitat. — Gardens, pastures, tScc. Common. /?. On the high 

 mountains of Scotland; on Snowden ; Cheviot Hills, Northumberland. 



Perennial ; flowering from May to July. 



3. V. friitivulo'sa, {Yig. S.) shrubbi/ Speeduell. Raceme somewhat 

 spiked, many flowered, leaves ovate-lanceolate, thick, slightly ser- 

 rated, stem ascending, woody and branching at the base, capsule 

 ovate, slightly notched at the extremity. 

 English Botany, t. 1028.— English Flora, vol. i. p. 18.— Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 188. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 6. 



Root strong and \NOody. Stem erect, round, woody towards the root. 

 Leaves opposite on short footstalks, pale green, leathery, frequently cn- 



f It is intended to give fi(j;uros, ;is in tlio])rcsent instance, of some of tho more 

 marked varieties of the ditrerent specie.-- of plants, which will be of considerable 

 assistance to the young student in Botany. 



