D1AND. -MONOG. 



fore the leaves. Stcunens and pistils springing from the naked extre- 

 mity of the peduncles. Capsules large, fiat. (Samara Gaert.) 



3. CIRC,EA. 



1. C. Lutctiana (common Enchanter's Nightshade], stem erect 

 pubescent, leaves ovato-cordate denticulate. Light f. p. SO. 

 E. B. t. 1056. 



HAB. Woods and coppices. Fl. June, July. 2/ . 



Leaves delicate, on long footstalks, acute, scarcely cordate at the base j 

 upper ones nearly ovate. Racemes (as well as the stems) more or less 

 branched, pubescent. Flowers white or rose -coloured. Calycine leaf- 

 lets reflexed. Petals obversely heart-shaped, patent. Germen hispid. 



2. C. alpina (alpine Enchanter s Nightshade), stem ascending 

 glabrous, leaves cordate toothed shining. Lightf. p. 80. 

 E. B. t. 1057. 



HAB. Alpine woods and coppices, and by the side of the Highland 

 lochs frequent. Fl. June, July. 7/ . 



Stems glabrous or nearly so, though they are represented, as well as 

 the leaves, as very pubescent in E.B. Leaves broadly cordate, gla- 

 brous, notched at, the base, even in the upper ones, more decidedly 

 toothed and more shining than in C. Lutet. : whole plant smaller. 

 Such are the principal marks I can discover that will serve for distin- 

 guishing the two species. These differences however are retained in 

 cultivation, at least in transplanted roots. Of the C. alpina I have 

 never seen perfect seeds. 



4. V 7 ERONICA. 

 * Spikes or Racemes terminal (plants perennial) . 



1. V.serpyllifolia (thyme-leaved Speedivell), racemes spiked 

 many -flowered, leaves ovate slightly crenate, capsule broadly 

 obcordate as long as the style. Lightf. p. 73. E. B. t. 1075*. 

 /3. alpina, stems prostrate, racemes snorter. /^". humifusa. 

 Dicks, in Linn. Trans, v. ii. p. 288. 



HAB. Pastures and road-sides, abundant. (3. Highland mountains. 

 Fl. June, July. 11 . 



Stems procumbent, five or six inches long. Leaves opposite, as in al- 

 most all the genus, nearly sessile, more or less pubescent and cre- 

 nate. Spikes or racemes lax, very long in a, bracteated. Cor. pale 

 blue, with deeper lines. 



2. V. alpina (alpine Speedwell), raceme corymbose, leaves el- 

 liptico-ovate subserrate, capsule ovato-cordate longer than the 

 style. Lightf. p. 72. E. B. t. 484. 



HAB. Near the summits of many of the Highland mountains j of Ba- 

 denoch, Mr.J.Mackay. Garway Moor and Ben Nevis, Dicks. 

 Sparingly on Ben Nevis, Mr. Murray. Ben Lawers, Ben Lomond, &c. 

 Mountains in Perthshire, Angus-shire, and Aberdeenshire, G. Don. 

 Fl. June, July. I/ . 



About four inches in height ; turning black when dry. Leaves glabrous, 

 nearly sessile. Bracteas and calycine segments sometimes ciliated. 

 Racemes short, forming a Corymbus, by which, a-3 well as by its much 



