136 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Stem 1 inch to a foot high, simple in small specimens, branched 

 often from the very base in luxuriant ones ; in the latter case the 

 branches decumbent at the base. Leaves i to f inch long. 

 Racemes lengthening in flower until they occupy about f of the 

 stem. Corolla minute, much shorter than the calyx, pale-blue, 

 white in the centre. Capsule about as broad as long, | inch either 

 way. Plant yellowish-green, pubescent. 



V. arvensis is closely allied to V. verna, and indeed small speci- 

 mens of the former have frequently been mistaken for the latter ; 

 but in V. arvensis the leaves are never cut into lobes ; the pubescence 

 of the stem is of longer and more distinctly-jointed hairs, and the 

 fruiting raceme is more elongated and lax ; the pedicels are con- 

 siderably shorter ; the capsule narrower, and with the lobes less 

 divaricate. 



Wall Speedwell. 



French, Veronique (Its Champs. German, Feld Ehrenpreis. 



SPECIES VIII— VERONICA PE RE GRIN A, Linn. 



Plate DCCCCLXXV1I. 



Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXIX. Fig. I. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2512. 



Annual. Stem rather stiff, erect or ascending, generallybranched ; 

 branches ascending. Leaves oblanccolate ; the lower ones sub- 

 petiolate ; the upper ones sessile or subsessile ; all obtuse, entire 

 or remotely serrate. Bracts alternate, strapshaped-oblanceolate. 

 Plowers in a spikelike raceme, at length lax. Peduncles erect, 

 much shorter than the bracts and calyx. Sepals strapshaped, sub- 

 obtuse, glabrous. Capsule half as long as the calyx, inversely 

 deltoid, obcordate, much shorter than the calyx, glabrous ; lobes 

 much compressed, scarcely divaricate, separated by a very shallow 

 indistinct notch. Style very short, protruding beyond the notch of 

 the capsule. Seeds nearly flat on the inner face. Plant glabrous. 



A weed in gardens and cultivated ground. Perth, Scotland ; 

 Belfast, Londonderry, and Strabanc, Ireland; also in Jersey. First 

 noticed in 183G, at Barnescourt, Strabanc. A native of North and 

 South America, but naturalized in Europe. 



[Scotland, Ireland.] Annual. Spring to Autumn. 



Stems 3 to 8 inches high, with the branches less spreading than 

 in any of the preceding species. Leaves \ to 1 inch long, some- 

 what fleshy, passing gradually into the bracts ; uppermost bracts 

 very narrow, much exceeding the flowers. Corolla minute, not 



