DIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 23 



V. hirsuta. Hopkirk Glott. 9. Hook. Scot. 6. 

 V. setigera. " D. Don Rare PI. of Scot. 4." 



In dry heathy places in Cairick^ Ayrshire. Mr. James Smith. 



Perennial. Jime. 



A very diminutive species, well marked by its abrupt, undivided, 

 not heart-shaped, capsule. The plant is 2 or 3 inches high, 

 hairy, looking like a starved specimen of F. officinalis ; but I 

 have seen it remain unaltered by culture. The leaves are stalked, 

 small and narrow. Fl. pale blue, very distant in the lower part 

 of each cluster. Stigma capitate. 



12. V. ChaiiKEdrys, Germander Speedwell. Wild 

 Germander. 



Clusters lateral. Leaves ovate, sessile, rugged, deeply ser- 

 rated. Stem diffuse, with a hairy line at each side. 

 Calyx four-cleft, lanceolate. 



V. Chamaedrys. Linn. Sp. PI. 17. Willd. v.\. 69. Vahl Enum. 

 V. 1. 77. Fl. Br. 22. Engl. Bot. v. 9. t. 623. Curt. Lond. 

 fasc. \.t.2. Hook. Scot. 7. Mart. Rust. t. 66. Fl. Dan. t. 448, 

 Poit. .Sf Turp. Par. 13. t. 9. 



V. Chamaedrys sylvestris dicta. Raii Syn. 281. 



V. pratensis latifolia. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 94. 



Chamaedrys. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 125./. 



Ch. sylvestris. Ger. Em. 657 -f. 



In groves, meadows, pastures and hedges, common. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Herbage light green, paler than most of the genus when dried. 

 Stem simple, ascending obliquely, remarkable for its opposite 

 hairy lines. Leaves strongly veined, most hairy about the mar- 

 gin J rarely somewhat stalked. Clusters rising above the stem, 

 acute, their stalks hairy all round. Fl. numerous, transient, but 

 very beautiful, bright blue, with dark streaks, and a white 

 centre ; their outside pale and flesh-coloured. Caps, small, 

 inversely heart-shaped. The Jlowers expand in fine weather only. 

 Some take this for the German " Forget me not." It vies in 

 beauty with the true one, Myosotis palustris. 



13. V. montana. Mountain Germander Speedwell. 

 Mountain Madwort. 



Clusters lateral, lax, of few flowers. Leaves ovate, stalked, 

 serrated. Stem diffuse, hairy all round. 



V. montana. Linn. Sp. PL 17. Suppl. 83. Willd. v. I. 68. Vahl 

 Enum. v.l. 78. Fl. Br. 21. Engl. Bot. v.W. t. 760. Curt. 

 Lond. fasc. 4. t. 2. Hook. Scot. 6. Jacq. Austr. t. \09. Ft. 

 Dan. t. 1201. Hoffm. Germ. unn. 1/91. t.\. Poit. Sf Turp. 

 Par. 14. t. 10. 



