152 ENGLISn BOTANY. 



A to A inch long, with more numerous, more shallow, and blunter 

 teeth; peduncles considerably shorter; sepals narrower, more 

 equal in size, blunter, less conspicuously veined ; corolla usually 

 smaller, paler blue, frequently nearly white with only a few blue or 

 lilac stripes, the lowest lobe always white ; the capsule with the 

 lobes separated by a narrow acute sinus, the two inner apical 

 boundaries of the lobes nearly straight, and parallel for some little 

 distance, the outer boundary semicircular, with a keel running 

 round the whole of the outside ; the surface with rather promi- 

 nent elevated veins, and sparingly clothed (especially along the 

 keel) with short gland-tipped hairs. Plant yellower-green than 

 V. polita. 



Green Procumbent Speedwell. 



French, Vermique Rusti>jue. German, Acker Ehrenjrreis. 



SPECIES IV— VERONICA BUXBAUMII. Ten. 



Plate DCCCCLXXIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCIX. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1733. 



V. Persica, " Roir." Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 598. Reich. JU, 1. c. 



Stem weak, branched from the base ; branches procumbent or 

 ascending at the apex. Leaves all shortly stalked, broadly-ovate 

 or roundish-ovate, subcordate or abrupt at the base, coarsely- 

 serrate or crenatc-serrate, with 9 to 13 deep generally rather acute 

 teeth. Bracts like the leaves. Flowers racemose. Peduncles two 

 to four times as long as the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 

 glabrous, ciliated with rather long incurved hairs (which are not 

 gland-tipped), distinctly 5- to 7-ribbed and nettcd-veined in fruit. 

 Capsule of 2 rhomboidal-ovoid much compressed strongly-keeled 

 divaricate lobes, with a network of very prominent veins, sub- 

 glabrous, except that they are sparingly clothed with gland-tipped 

 hairs. Style very long, projecting much beyond the notch of 

 the capsule. Seeds 5 to 8 in each cell of the capsule. Plant 

 pubescent, with long jointed but not gland-tipped hairs. 



In cultivated fields. Common, and generally distributed in 

 England, Ireland, and the South of Scotland, extending as far 

 North as Moray. A native of Eastern Europe and Central Asia ; 

 now thoroughly naturalized in Britain, and becoming each year 

 more abundant. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Annual. Spring 

 to Autumn. 



