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ers pedicelled. Fruit fringed with dense down. 

 [Elm Tree.] 



VERONICA. Diandria Monogynia. Calyx 

 four parted. Corol four cleft, wheel shaped, 

 with the lowest segment narrower. Capsule two 

 celled, few seeded. 



V. Officinalis. Spikes lateral, peduncled. 

 Leaves opposite, obovate, hairy. Stem procum- 

 bent, with coarse hairs. [Speedwell.] 



WINDSORIA. Triandria Digynia. Calyx, 

 two valved, one nerved, cuspidate. Corols two 

 valved, outer valves having nerves with mucro- 

 nate points, between which are teeth and a fring- 

 ing below ; inner valves naked. Flowers closely 

 piled two ways in a thick spike. 



W." Seslerioides. Panicle spreading and flex- 

 uose. Spikelets peduncled, generally six flow- 

 ered, lanceolate. Lower valve of corol ovate 

 five toothed. [Red-top.] 



XANTHIUM. Monoecia Pentandria, Male: 

 Calyx common, imbricate. Corol one petalled, 

 five cleft, funnel form. Receptacles chaffy. Fe- 



