Mr. J. Ball on a new species of Veronica. 47 
VIII.— Description of a new species of Veronica. 
By Joun Batt, M.R.LA. 
SeveRaL years ago I gathered upon the steep crags of the 
Pagna della Croce, one of the highest peaks of the Apuan Apen- 
nines, specimens of a Veronica which accidentally remained un- 
examined until the present year. Although resembling in many 
respects V’. aphylla, L., my specimens differ in so many essential 
particulars, that 1 am induced to distinguish them by a specific 
name ; and I subjoin a description of the proposed new species, 
together with that of V. aphylla, from which the diagnosis will 
more readily be made. 
V. longistyla, nobis. Caule brevissimo, repente, ceespitoso, filiformi ; 
foliis inferioribus minimis, superioribus subrosulatis, omnibus ob- 
ovato-spathulatis, aeutiusculis, grandiuscule crenato-serratis ; pe- 
dunculo scapiformi adscendente, vix pollicari, supra in pedicellos, 
2—4 erectos, bractets linearibus et capsulis 3-4 longiores, diviso ; 
corolla parva, filamentis styloque breviort; capsula matura late 
obcordata, profunde emarginata, calycem sesquilonga, stylo bre- 
viori, semiibus lentiformibus, albo-hyalinis, glabris. Herba tota 
pilis brevissimis articulatis, superne glandulosis, adspersa. 
V. aphylla, L. Caule brevissimo czespitoso ; foliis rosulatis, late 
obovato-spathulatis, obtusis subintegerrimis ; pedunculo scapiformi 
erecto, 1-3 pollicari; supra in pedicellos 2-4, bracteis capsulisque 
viz duplum longiores, diviso; corolle segmentis latis, filamenta 
stylumque superantibus; capsula matura odovato-elliptica, sinu 
brevissimo emarginata, calyce et stylo duplum longiore ; seminibus 
lentiformibus, luteis, glabris. Herba tota pilis articulatis, glandu- 
losis, crebris, obtecta. 
V. longistyla differs at first sight from V. aphylla in its smaller 
size, more slender habit, and in its less abundant and less glan- 
dular pubescence ; but the most certain characters must be sought 
in the completely different shape and much smaller size of the cap- 
sule, and in the much greater length of the style, which is longer 
instead of being one-half shorter than the ripe capsule, as in V. 
aphylla. 1 have to call attention to the description of the capsule 
of V. aphylla given by Mr. Bentham in the tenth volume of the 
‘Prodromus.’ It is there stated that the capsule is obcordate, and 
that eminent botanist, to whom I have submitted a specimen of 
V. longistyla, observes, “I do not find so much difference in the 
form of the capsule;” he however further observes, “I have but one 
specimen of V. aphylla in good fruit.” I have gathered V. aphylla 
in fruit in Dauphiné, in the cantons of Berne, Glaris, Tessin, and 
Valais in Switzerland, in the Tyrol, and in several parts of the 
Carpathians, and with the specimens before me I do not find any 
difference in the form of the ripe fruit, which is as I have above 
