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491. V. arvensis, L. Wall Speedwell. 



Native ; on dry banks, wall-tops, by paths and roadsides in open 



situations, in turfy waste spots, and as a weed in arable land. 



Very common. April to September, or later. Area general. 



One of the most widely diffused of the genus, occurring in the open as 



well as the enclosed tracts. Grows on the Hoe, at Pennycomequick, and 



elsewhere close to Plymouth. 



492. V. serpyllifolia, L. Perennial Smooth Speedwell. 



Native ; in damp spots by roadsides, on moist banks, in open 

 turfy places in woods, and sometimes on wall-tops. Very com- 

 mon. March to September, or later. Area general. 

 Frequent about roadside drains just around the town, and to be seen 

 in the enclosed, the w^ooded, and the open country. 



493. V. oflB.cinalis, L. Common Speedwell. 



Native ; on dry or rocky banks, on commons, moors, and in open 

 spots in woods and copses. Common. May to July, or later. 

 0. I. St. Germans Beacon ; one patch with bluish-white flowers, 1876. 

 Sheviock ; a plant with nearly white flowers in Sheviock Wood, 

 1871. St. SteiDhens. Landrake. Viverdon Down. 

 II. Wear, Maker : Keijs^ S. D. Lit. Chroji. 351. Near Saltash. 

 Between St. Mellion and Halton Quay. 

 D. III. Keyham Lane, 1874. Plymouth and Saltash Road, near Ford. 

 Warleigh. Sampford Spiney. 

 IV. About Plympton and Ridgway ; Keijs, ih. Rumple, Plym Valley ; 

 some patches with white flowers, close to others, 1872. A 

 variety with flowers of a deep flesh colour in two spots on the 

 open moor ; one near Shaugh, the other in the neighbourhood 

 of the Morley Clay Works, 1878. Sheepstor. 

 V. Langdon. Newton Ferrers. Between Lee Mill Bridge and Ivy- 

 bridge. Venton. 

 VI. Holbeton. Between Kingston and Gutsford. Ivybridge. On 

 Dartmoor, near Staddon Barrow. 



494. V. Chamsedrys, i. Germander Speedivell ; ^Bird's Eye.^ 



Native ; on hedge-banks, grassy slopes, m hilly pastures and 

 orchards. Very common. April to June. Area general. 

 The best-known species of the genus, and one of the most beautiful of 

 our wild flowers. It extends from the coast to the hedge-banks about 

 Dartmoor. A variety with light flowers — milky or bluish white— is rather 

 common, and sometimes grows close to plants with the ordinary blue ones. 

 I have seen it in all the Districts. With flowers of a claret colour at 

 Trevol ; of a delicate flesh colour at Cotehele (District ii.) ; of a lavender 

 colour between Lolesbury and Puslinch (v.); and on a hedge-bank near 



