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HAB. Moist woods, not very common. Dunglass, near the river, 

 Lightf. Langside wood, Crlasgow, Dr. Brown. Woods, Cartlan 

 crags, Glasgow, Hopk. Arniston and Lugton woods about Rosslyn, 

 Mdugh. Campsie and Cathkin, Mr. Murray. Cliesh, Kinross-shire, 

 Mr.Arnott. F/.June. 7/ . 



Stem a foot or more in length, weak, trailing. Leaves large, slightly 

 hairy. Flowers few, pale blue, veined, in loose racemes 5 pedicels 

 long. Caps, large, twice the size of the calyx, of two orbicular lobes, 

 flat, crenate at the margin and ciliated. 



11. V. Chamcedrys (Germander Speedwell), flowers racemed, 

 leaves ovate obtuse sessile inciso-serrate, stem bifariously hir- 

 sute. Lightf. p. 74. E. B. I. 623. 



HAB. Woods and pastures, common. Fl. May, June. I/ . 



Stem procumbent, a foot long, with a hairy line running down on each 

 side, and these lines taking different sides between each pair of leaves, 

 or decussate. Leaves wrinkled and hairy ; upper ones cor dato- ovate. 

 Racemes long, of many large pale, but bright blue or purplish flowers, 

 sometimes white. Caps, shorter than the calyx, obcordate. In habit 

 resembling the preceding, but very distinct in essential characters. 



12. V.Allionii (smooth-leaved Speedwell), flowers densely spik- 

 ed, leaves ovate subserrated rigid and as well as the procum- 

 bent stem perfectly glabrous. Vill. Delph. p. 8. D, Don, 

 MSS. inedit. 



HAB. Mountains in Anguss-shire, G. Don. FL June, July. % . 



A valuable addition to our British Veronica, nearly allied to V.officina- 

 lis, but differing in the total absence of every kind of pubescence or 

 roughness on the stems and leaves, and in the very dense spike of 

 brilliant blue flowers. 



*** Flowers axillary, solitary (plants annual). 



13. V. agrestis (procumbent Speedivell), leaves (all) petiolate 

 cordato-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower -stalks, 

 stem procumbent. Lightf. p. 75. E. B. t. 783. 



HAB. Fields and waste places. Fl. April to July. Q. 



Plant 3 to 4 inches in length, slightly hairy. Flowerstalkslonger than 



the leaves, recurved when bearing fruit. Cor. small, bright blue. 



Caps, of two turgid lobes, pubescent. Seeds large, few. 



14. V. ar vens is (sinall Speedwell), leaves cordato-ovate serrate 

 the lower ones petiolate, floral leaves sessile lanceolate longer 

 than the flowerstalk, stem nearly erect. Light/', p. 75. E. B. 

 t. 734. 



HAB. Fields and walls. Fl. April to July. 0. 



Habit and size of the preceding, or rather smaller, and often mistaken 

 for it, though more from the similarity of the names, as Curtis well 

 observes, than from any absence of characters. Flowers sessile or 

 nearly so. Caps, obcordate, much compressed, ciliated. 



15. V. hederifolia (Ivy -Leaved Speedwell), leaves cordato-ovate 

 mostly 5-lobed, calycine segments cordate ciliated, stem pro* 

 cumbent. Lightf. p. 76. E. B. t. 784. 



