SCROPHULARIACE^. 157 



nearly equalling the calyx, bluisli-lilac or nearly white. Capsule 

 y inch long, with a very shallow notch. Seeds very numerous, 

 minute. Plant dull-green, quite glabrous. 



I am indebted to Dr. Samuel E^ea of Belfast for fresh speci- 

 mens. 



Annual Smooth Speedwell. 



FrencTi, Veronique Voyageuse. German, Fremder Ehrefnpreis. 



SPECIES IX.— VERONICA SERF YLLIPOLIA. Linn. 

 Plates DCCCCLXXVIII. DCCCCLXXIX. 



Perennial. Stem rather stiff, decumbent and rooting at the 

 base and then erect, or wholly decumbent, branched chiefly at the 

 base ; branches curved, ascending or prostrate. Leaves oval, or 

 roundish oval, entire or repand, obtuse; the lovA^er ones stalked; 

 the upper sessile or subsessile. Bracts strapshaped-oblanceolate, 

 alternate. Elowers in a spikelike raceme, at length rather lax. 

 Pedicels erect, shorter than the bracts, equalling or exceeding the 

 calyx. Sepals oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse, sub-glabrous, 

 ciliated with gland-tipped hairs. Capsule about as long as the 

 calyx, inversely semicircular-deltoid, obcordate, much compressed, 

 without prominent veins, sub-glabrous or more or less clothed 

 with gland-tipped hairs ; lobes scarcely divaricate, separated by a 

 shallow notch. Style very long, equalling the capsule in length. 

 Seeds slightly excavated on the inner face. Plant glabrous, except 

 the stem and pedicels, which are more or less thickly clothed 

 with hairs ; those on the upper part sometimes gland-tipped. 



Sub-Species I.— Veronica eu-serpyllifolia. 



Plate DCCCCLXXVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XX. Tab. MDCCXVIII. Figs. 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 823. 



V, serpyllifolia, var. a, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 249. Uooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. 

 ed. viii. p. 305. 



Stems branched at the very base, where they are decumbent, 

 then erect. Leaves oval, generally repand-crenate. Raceme many- 

 flowered, at length occupying half the stem or more. Bracts and 

 pedicels, with short hairs generally not gland-tipped. Corolla 

 nearly white, with bluish-lilac lines. Capsule rather shorter than 

 the sepals, sub-glabrous, with a few gland-tipped hairs at the apex, 

 the notch between the segments very shallow. 



