yo Academy of Useful Sciences at Erfurt. — Gottingen. 



crhtata, and the other Veronica sternherglana. The first, 

 which he found in Hungary near the German frontiers, 

 and on tlie mountains of Dornach not far from Vienna, 

 differs very little from the Feronica sp'icata in the form of 

 ihe stalk and leaves, but much more in the blossoms and 

 the stalk of the flower. It carries its blossoms in a proper 

 car. The folds of the flowers, which resemble a short pipe, 

 are not so broad ; they are rolled together to the very middle, 

 and do not present a genuine pipe; so that the flower assumes 

 a funnel-likc appearance, and approaches very nearly in its 

 stalk to that of the Veronica sibirica and virginica. In 

 respect to other particulars it does not difi"er very much 

 from the Veronica spicata, which is already accurately de- 

 scribed. In the botanical system it has the following cha- 

 racteristic — Vcr. spica terminal!, corollae subrotatie, laciniis 

 postice convolutis, falcis oppositis. — The second specimen 

 Count Stcnibcrg already remarked in Italy in the Sette connnn- 

 ni, and gave it the name of Vcr. glabra. But as Ehrhardt had 

 made use of tliis name to another kind of Veronica, Bernardi 

 thought proper to name it after its discoverer. It principally 

 grows at Krain, near Jauernberg, on the hills which surround 

 the foot of Belsbiza. Its stalks and leaves are almost entirely 

 hairless ; the first is very lank, and its longer-stalked blos- 

 soms stand somewhat crowded together; it may be re- 

 cof^nized by the following difference — V. racemo terminali, 

 corollas rotatas, laciniis patentibus, foliis oppositis, cauleque 

 jrlabris. — Professor Bernardi has more clearly des(5ribed the 

 doubtful Speedwells or Fluellins — V. urticsfolia, latifolia, 

 Teucrium, prostrata et pilosa, and has assigned to them pro- 

 per descriptions. This essay of Professor Bernardi will ap- 

 pear in the acts of the academy, a new volume of which 

 will be immediately published. 



ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, GOTTIKGEN. 



, Ti\i.s academy has added the names of Chaptal and Cuvier, 

 both members of the National Institute of France, to the list 

 of tiieir foreign associates. 



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