Veronica.1 DIANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. 7 



capsule of 2 turgid keeled lobes, cells about 6-seeded. Bor. in 

 E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2603. 



Fields and waste places, abundant. Fl. Apr. — Sept. ©. — Prostrate. 

 Stems 3 — 4 inches long, slightly hairy. Peduncles longer than the 

 leaves. Fruit of two round tumid lobes, much smaller than the calyx. 

 Seeds large, cupped. 



14. Y.poUta, Fries, [grey procumbent Field Speedwell) ; leaves 

 all petiolate coi'dato-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower- 

 stalks, segments of the calyx ovate acute, stem procumbent, 

 capsule of 2 turgid lobes, cells many-seeded. Reich. Iconogr. 

 V. i\\. J}. 45. t. 246. — V. agrestis, E. Bot. t. 783. 



Cultivated fields and waste places, often with the preceding. Fl. 

 throughout the summer. 0. — Mr Borrer has well illustrated this and 

 the foregoing, V. agrestis, in the Supplement to E. Bot. t. 2603. 

 These two species and the V. opaca of Fries, (with spathulate segments 

 to the calyx,) border very closely ujwn each other, and are probably 

 often confounded by Botanists. 



*15. V. Buxhdumii, Ten. (Buxhaums Speedtvell); leaves all 

 petiolate cordato-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower- 

 stalks, segments of the calyx lanceolate acute, stem procumbent, 

 capsule obcordate of two turgid divaricated lobes which are 

 compressed upwards and sharply keeled, cells about 8-seeded. 

 Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2769. Hook. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 8 — 

 V. Bersica, Stev. — V. filiformis., Johnst. Fl. of Berw. p. 225, 

 with fig. (iiot of Vahl.) Hook. Br. Fl. ed. 1. />. 6. — V. agrestis, 

 [3. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 2. p. 6. 



Fields and cultivated places. Shrubbery at Whiterig, Berwickshire. 

 Clover-field at Chalk-hole, near Margate. Plentiful among turneps in a 

 field adjoining the Bird-in-hand Inn, Burford, Oxfordshire. Near New- 

 castle, along with V. polita and V. agrestis. Syderstrand, Norfolk, 

 under a sunny wall ; 3Iiss Anna Gurney. Near Dunfermline ; Dr 

 Dewar, Aug., 1836. Near Glasgow. Fl. Spring to autumn. 0. — 

 Our acute friend Mr Borrer grounds the distinguishing marks of this 

 plant, as separating it from V. agrestis and V. polita, upon its larger 

 size, and greater hairiness, the divaricated lobes of the capsule, which 

 are compressed upwards and sharply carinated, and in the larger corolla, 

 rivalling in size and beauty that of V. Chamadrys. Mr Borrer has in 

 the Engl. Bot., by mistake, made it appear that we had, in the 2d ed. 

 of this work, referred this plant to a variety of " arvensis," instead of 

 polita {agrestis of Eng. Bot.) 



16. v. arvensis, "L. (^JVall Speedivell) ; leaves cordato-ovate 

 serrated the lower ones petiolate, the upper or bracteas sessile 

 lanceolate longer than the flowers which are subspicate, stems 

 ascending. E. Bot. t. 734. 



Fields and walls, plentiful, Fl. in the spring months, and in early 

 summer. . — Very different from the three last, especially in its inflores^- 

 cence, which, if the upper leaves be considered bracteas, as they really 

 are (for they differ both in size and shape from the cauline ones), is 

 truly racemose or subspicate. The same may be said of the two next 

 species, and of some continental ones, especially F. acinifolia. 



