PL ex. cor. 22. RHINANTHACE^. 64-. Veronica. 30» 



Veronica flosculis singularibus, hederulae folio, Rail Syn. 2S1,7. 

 Alsine hederacea, Ger. em. 616, 3. 

 Alsine hederulae folio minor. Park. 762. 

 Veronica hederaefolia, Lin. S. P. 19. 



Small henbit. Winter weed. Ivy chickweed. 



Fields and cultivated places ; annual ; May to September. 

 Stem semiprostrate ; leaves longly petioled ; sepales broad, 

 fringed, pointed ; flowers pale blue ; capsules twin. • 



II. 65. SIBTHORPIA. Hudson. Pennywort. 

 Calyx 5-parted ; corolla nearly rotate ; tube short ; limb 



5-lobed, nearly regular; stamens 4, distant, very short; 

 stigma peltate ; capsule compressed, prbicular, opening at 

 the apex, i-seeded. — Herb creeping, hairy, rooting; leaves 

 alternate; peduncles capillary, solitary; flowers yellow. 



Sihthorpia Europcea. European pennywort. 



Leaves kidneyshape, rather peltate, crenalte. 



Alsine spuria pusilla repens foliis saxifragas aureaj, Rail Syn. 352, 1. 

 Sibthorpia Europea, Lin. S." P. 880. 

 Sibthorpia prostrata, SaZ£s&. Jcon. 2, 6. 

 Cornish pennywort. Cornish moneywort. 



Damp boggy places ; perennial ; July and August. 



Stem prostrate, creeping, threadshape, rooting near the 

 petioles ; leaves petioled, horizontal ; peduncles shorter than 

 the leaves; calyx his^^id; corolla purplish yellow. - 



III. 66. EUPHRASIA. Brunsfell. Eyelright, 

 Calyx cylindrical, 4<-toothed, equal; coroZ/c! tubular, two- 

 lipped ; galea nicked ; lip 3-lobed, lobes equal, 2-cut ; sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous ; lohes of the lower anthers spinose ; 

 capsule ovate, oblong ; seeds few, rather angular, striated. 

 — Leaves opposite or alternate ; flowers axillary. 



Euphrasia offici?iaUs. Shop eyebright. 



Leaves ovate, linear, shortly toothed. 



Euphrasia, Raii Syn. 282 *, i ; Ger. em. 663, 1. 

 Euphrasia vulgaris, Park. 1329. 

 Euphrasia officinalis, Lin. S. P. 841. 



Meadows and pastures ; annual; July to September. 



Stejji 8 in. high, purplish; branches racemose; flowers 

 alternate, sessile, white with purplish lines; palate yellow ; 

 capsule nicked. — Herb weakly astringent, reputed ophr 

 thalmic. 



