CLASS II. OBDER I, J 



VERONICA. 16 



finger-like segments, the lower opposite, entire, or palmate. Corolla a 

 dark rich blue, thelower llowers sometimes on long footstalks. Capsule 

 inversely heart shaped, and hairy. Style short. Seed numerous, flat. 

 The whole plant downy. It is distinguished from all the varieties of 

 V. hederifolia hy the flat, not tumid capsules, and each cell containing 

 numerous flat seeds. 



Habitat. — In sandy fields, but rare; chiefly on the confines of Nor- 

 folk and Suff'olk, and said to have been found in Yorkshire, by Mr. 

 Tofield. In the neighbourhood of Alcaster " not rare." — Purton's 

 Midland Flora. 



Annual; flowering in April. 



17. V. ver'na, (Fig. 23.) vernal Speedwell. Stem erect, branching 

 from the base, leaves pinnaiifid, the upper ones or bracteas lanceo- 

 late, undivided, flower-stalks shorter than the calyx and bracteas. 



English Botany, t. 25. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 26. — Lindley, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 189. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 9. 



A small erect plant, not more than one or two inches high, having 

 the habit of V. arvensis, more or less branched at the base, which, as 

 well as the stem, are erect. A number of specimens of this rare little 

 plant are in the collection of the late Mr. Salt, which is now deposited 

 in the Shelfleld literary and Philosophical Society's Museum, and 

 from which our drawing was taken ; they appear to have been collected 

 in the neighbourhood of Bury. All the specimens are branched at the 

 base, some in a close tuft of many branches, and clothed with short 

 thick hair. The leaves are divided mostly in three lobes, the central 

 one the largest, the upper ones lanceolate entire. Corolla small. Cap- 

 sule inversely heart-shaped, broad, compressed, downy, ciliated, with a 

 blunt margin. 



Habitat. — About Bury and Thetford, Suff'olk ; rare ; first discovered 

 by Sir John Cullum, Bart. 

 Annual; flowering in April. 



18. V. arven'sis, (Fig. 24.) Wall Speedwell. Stem nearly erect, 

 leaves ovate, deeply serrated, upper or bracteas sessile, lanceolate, 

 flowers nearly sessile, shorter than the bracteas. 



English Botany, t. 734. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 24. — Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 189.— Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 8. 



Stein erect or ascending, hairy, from two to twelve inches high, 

 mostly branched at the base, the central stem generally the longest and 

 most erect. The subspicate flowers are at first short and dense, in 

 maturity long and slender. Leaves hairy, the lowest opposite on short 

 footstalks, the upper sessile and cordate, the floral ones or bracteas ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, serrated or entire, becoming alternate, longer than the 

 flowers. Caly.v segments lanceolate, the two outer ones frequently 

 longer than the inner. Corolla small, light l)lue, or whitish, about the 



