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**** Flowers axillary, solitary seeds concave. 



15. V. agrestis(L.}; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-serrate, 

 sep. oblong-obtuse, stam. inserted at the very bottom of the cor., 

 caps, of 2 turgid keeled lobes, seeds about 6 in a cell. E. B. S. 

 2603. St. 58. 14. R. I. f. 440. St. procumbent. Caps, hairy 

 all over, or only ciliate on the keel ; hairs all straight and glan- 

 dular. L. usually exceeding the peduncles. Lower cor.-lip 

 white. [F. opaca (Fries) with spathulate sep., fewer seeds, 

 " hairs on caps, incurved short with a few longer and glandular," 

 stam. inserted in the throat of cor. ; is probably British.] Fields 

 and waste places. A. IV. IX. Green Field Speedwell. 



16. V. polita (Fries); 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-ser- 

 rate, sep. broadly ovate acute, stam. inserted at the very bottom 

 of the cor., caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 8 12 in a cell. E. B. 

 783. St. 58. 16. R. I. f. 404. 405. St. procumbent. Caps, with 

 short dense glandless hairs and other shorter glandular ones, 

 rarely glabrous. L. usually falling short of the peduncles. Fl. 

 wholly blue. ft. grandiflora ; cor. as large as that of V. Bux- 

 baumii. Fields and waste places. /3. Berwickshire. Cambridge. 

 Bury St. Edmonds. A. IV. IX. Gray Field Speedwell. 



*17. V. Buxbaumii (Ten.); 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise- 

 serrate, sep. lanceolate acute, stam. from the bottom of the cor., 

 caps, of 2 divaricate lobes compressed upwards and sharply 

 keeled, seeds about 8 in a cell. E. B. S. 2769. St. 56. 5. R. L 

 430. 431. St. long, procumbent. L. falling short of the pe- 

 duncles. Fl. twice the size of those of the preceding, as large as 

 those of V. Chamtedrys, blue. Fields. A. IV. IX. 



18. V. hederifolia (L.); L with 57 large toothliJce lobes all 

 stalked, sep. cordate ciliate, caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 2 in 

 each cell. E. B. 784. St. 56. 6. St. procumbent. Fl. pale blue. 

 Fields and banks. A. IV. VI. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. 



[Acanthus mollis, belonging to the Order Acanthacea, has 

 been introduced by unknown agency into the isle of St. Agnes, 

 Scilly (A. N. H. ser. 2. viii. 505) ; but having very slender claims 

 to be included in the British Flora, it is not described here.] 



Order LVIII. LABIATE. 



Cal. tubular, regular or 2-lipped, persistent. Cor. 2-lipped. 

 upper lip entire or bifid, lower 3 -cleft. Stam. 4, didynamous, 

 rarely 2. Ovary free, 4-lobed. Style 1, from the base of the 

 lobes; stigma bifid. Fr. in 1 4 small nutlike portions. Figures 

 of all the genera will be found in G. F. G. Gam. ii. 



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