DIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Veronlcft. 17 



undivided lobes, the lower one smallest, upper broadest, 

 Filam. spreading, tapering downwards. Anth. oblong. 

 Germeji conijiressed. Style thread-shaped, as long as the 

 stamens, declining. Stigma small, notched. Caps, va- 

 rious in shape, ovate, elliptical, or inversely heart-shaped, 

 compressed, of" 2 cells, and 4 valves, more or less easily 

 separable. Seeds numerous, roundish, compressed, or 

 peltate, or umbilicated. 

 Herbaceous, or somev/hat shrubby. Hoot annual or per- 

 ennial. Stem branched. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, 

 simple, indented, sometimes pinnatifid; never really com- 

 pound ; floral ones alternate. Flowers alternate, mostly 

 blue ; rarely flesh-coloured, or white ; the lower segment 

 palest; u})per darkest; dark lines radiating from the 

 mouth. Calijx various, affording the best specific cha- 

 racters. A genus not very nearly akin to any other, except 

 Wtdfeiiia. Qualities insignificant. 



* Clusters or spikes terminal. Root p)crennial. 



1. V. sp'ic.ala. Spiked Speedwell. 



Spike terminal. Leaves bluntly sei'rated about the middle 

 only ; their base tapering into a footstalk : radical ones 

 obovate. Stem ascending, quite simple. 



V. Bpicata. Linn. Sp. PI. ]4. IVilld. v.\ . 56. Vahl Enum. v.\. 

 60. Fl. Br. 15. Engl. Bot. v. 1. t.2. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 15. 

 Fl. Dan. i. 52. 



V. n. 542. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 234. 



V.spicata recta minor. Bauh.Hisl. v.3.p.2.282.f. Raii Syn.279. 



V. spicata minor. Vaill. Par. 200. f.33.f.4. 



V. recta minima. Clus. Hist. v. 1.347. f. Ger. Em. 627. f. Loh. 

 Ic. V. 1.472. f. 



In high dry chalky pastures, especially on Newmarket heathy and 

 about Bury St. Edmund's. 



Perennial. July — Sept. 



Root somewhat creeping. Herb from 4 to 8 inches high,, minutely 

 hairy; hairs often in lines on the stem. 1 have never seen it 

 branched. Leaves oblong, opposite ; the lowest stalked ; upper- 

 most, sometimes all, linear and entire. Mowers on very short, 

 if any, partial stalks, deep blue, numerous. Bracleas linear, 

 downy like the calyx. Cor. bearded at the mouth, as in F. hy- 

 brida. 



2. V. hybrida. Welsh Speedwell. 



Spikes terminal. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, unequally and 

 bluntly serrated : lowermost ovate, stalked. Stem nearly 

 upright, not perfectly simple. 



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