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ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 



8. VERONICA. 



V. filiformiS) stem spreading, hairy ; leaves all alternate, heart- 

 shaped, deeply serrate ; flowerstalks very long, always straight ; 

 limb of the corolla longer than the calyx ; seeds cupped. Tab. 



nost. 



V. filiformis, Lam. and Decand. Fl. Fr. v. 388. (ex- 



eluding Sm. in Lin. Tr. i. 195.) On the authority of 



Arnott, Meyer, and Schleicher. 

 V. agrestis /3, Sm. Fl. Grsec. t. 8. Prod. i. 9. 

 V. Buxbaumii, Tenore, Fl. Neap. i. 7 t. 10. (Settled 



by specimens from Tenore), Linn. Syst. Veg. by 



Sprengel, i. 75. 



Hob. Cultivated grounds. In the shrubbery in front of 

 the house at Whiterig, Berwickshire. August Oct. 



Stems spreading, one or two feet long, branched at the base 

 or simple, round, more or less coloured, and clothed with 

 soft white hairs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite at the 

 base, ovate-heart-shaped, deeply serrate, rough with short 

 bristles, which also fringe the margins. Flowerstalks 

 axillary, straight, filiform, hairy, 1 or l\ inch long, some- 

 times slightly curved at the insertion of the capsule. 

 The stem flowers from the very base. Segments of the 

 calyx ovate -lanceolate, hairy, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves 

 small. Flowers large, light blue, beautifully streaked 

 with darker lines ; segments broadly ovate, entire ; tube 

 white, hairy within. Anthers large, blue, on white curved 

 thick filaments. Capsule inversely heart-shaped, bristly. 

 Seeds white, rough, concave beneath, four or five in each 

 cell. 



SMITH considered this a variety of V. agrestis^ to which 

 it is certainly nearly allied. But V. agrestis is a smaller 

 and smoother plant, with the lower leaves always oppo- 

 site, on longer stalks, and less decidedly heart-shaped. 

 The flowerstalks also are generally curved, never longer 

 than the leaves ; and the segments of the small corolla 

 do not exceed, but are rather shorter than the segments 



