162 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Var. 13, hyhrida. 

 Plate DCCCCLXXXIII. 

 V. hybrida, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 14. *S'm. Eng. Bot. No. 673. 



Lowest leaves rather abruptly contracted into their petioles ; 

 leaves toothed throughout. "Whole plant larger, and with broader 

 leaves than in var. a. 



Var. a on chalky or sandy heaths. Very rare. Beacon Course, 

 Newmarket Heath, Cambridge ; near Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. 

 Var. on ledges of limestone rocks in the West of England ; St. 

 Vincent's Rocks, Gloucester ; Craig Brieddin, Montgomery ; on 

 Gloddaeth and Great Orme's Head, Carnarvon; Disserth, Elint; 

 Barmouth, Merioneth ; Humphrey Head, Lancashire ; "Westmore- 

 land. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Bootstock branched, shortly creeping, producing several stems 

 4 to 8 inches high in var. a, 6 to 18 inches high in 3. Leaves f to 

 2 inches long. Baceme 1 to 6 inches long. Flowers ^ inch across, 

 bright-blue, with very long stamens and styles. Corolla-limb with 

 long narrow acute segments ; throat bearded with white hairs. 

 Capsules J inch long. Plant dull dark-green. 



Var. /3, though considered a different species by Linnaeus and 

 Smith, appears to be rather a luxuriant state than a true variety. 



Spiked Speedwell. 



French, Veronique en j^pi. German, Ahrentragender Ehrenirreis. 



Section IV.— CHAM^DBYS. Koch. 



Perennial. Elowers in axillary racemes. Peduncles springing 

 from the axils of the leaves, opposite or solitary by abortion, 

 bearing a terminal raceme. Tube of corolla shorter than wide. 

 Calyx 4- or 5 -partite. 



SPECIES XIIL—VERO NIC A OFFICINALIS. Linn. 



Plates DCCCCLXXXIV. DCCCCLXXXV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCVI. Figs. 1, 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2720. 



Stems rather wiry, decumbent, rooting at the base, branched 

 only near the base, with the branches ascending only at the apex. 

 Leaves shortly stalked, obovate, oblanceolate, oval, or elliptical, 

 attenuated into their petioles, crenate-serrate, obtuse or subacute. 



