88 COBOLLIELOEJE. 



parasitic on roots of Hazels and other trees. Stem of the plant 

 flesh-coloured; root fleshy and creeping, covered with closely 

 packed, thick scales, resembling somewhat in shape human in- 

 cisor teeth ; flower-stem from 4 inches to a foot high, with a 

 few broad roundish scales ; flowers on short stalks, numerous, 

 drooping, in a one-sided cluster, bluish, streaked with purple or 

 dark red ; upper lip of the corolla entire or slightly notched, 

 lower hp divided into 3 lobes. In a copse at Lindridge near 

 Kingsteignton, on roots of Laurel and Hazel. (E. B. t. 50.) P. 

 IV. V. 



OED. LXII. SCROPHULARIACE^E. 

 VERONICA. SPEEDWELL. 



1. V. serpyllifolia (thyme-leaved Speedwell.) Common in 

 pastures and by waysides. Root fibrous ; stems creeping, and 

 throwing up numerous erect flowering branches ; leaves in pairs, 

 broadly oval, slightly crenate ; flowers in a loose terminal spike, 

 with leafy-looking bracts ; corolla pale blue or white, with dark 

 streaks ; fruit inversely kidney- shaped. Torquay. Cockington. 

 Shiphay, etc. (E. B. t. 1075.) P. y. vi. 



2. V. scutellata (marsh S.) In boggy places and by sides 

 of ditches. Stems weak, slender, and spreading, 6 or 8 inches 

 high ; leaves opposite, sessile, linear and slightly toothed. Flowers 

 in alternate loose lateral clusters, on slender stalks ; corolla flesh- 

 coloured, with purple streaks. Fruit flat and broad, deeply 

 notched, Forde bog, near Newton. Bovey Heath. (E. B. t. 

 782.) P. vi.-vm. 



3. V. Anagallis (water S.) In ditches and by edges of 

 ponds. Plant varying in size from 6 inches to 2 feet; stems 

 erect, succulent and branching ; leaves sessile, opposite, lanceo- 

 late and serrated ; flower-spikes opposite, rising from the axils of 

 the leaves ; flowers pale blue, with darker streaks ; fruit small 

 and roundish, notched at the top. Near Torre Abbey. Lanes 

 about Mary church. Forde bog. (E. B. t. 781.) P. VI.-YIII. 



4. V. Beccabung-a (Brooklime.) In ditches and small brooks. 

 Steins round and smooth, prostrate or floating, rooting at their 

 joints, branched and leafy ; leaves slightly stalked, oblong, some- 

 what toothed, succulent. Flowers small and blue, in axillary op- 

 posite clusters. Capsule roundish, slightly notched. Common. 

 Ditches near Torre Abbey. Upton lanes. Ansti's Cove lane. 

 Paignton lanes. (E. B. t. 655.) P. iv.~vm. 



5. V. officinalis (common S.) In dry pastures and woods. 

 Stems creeping, and rooting at the joints, from 6 inches to afoot 



