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SPECIES XI.— VERONICA SAXATILIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCLXXXI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXVII. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2329. 



V. fruticulosa, ft pilosa, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 593. Benth. in D. C. Prod. 

 Vol. X. p. 480. 



An under-shrub. Stem woody and decumbent at tbe base, 

 mucb branched ; branches wiry, ascending, or erect, simple. 

 Leaves closest on tbe barren shoots and at the base of the flower- 

 ing-stems ; lower ones obovate, shortly stalked ; upper ones sub- 

 sessile, oval or oblong-oblanceolate ; all obtuse, entire or crenate- 

 serrate. Bracts opposite, resembling the leaves. Flowers in a 

 short sub-corymbose raceme, not lengthening in fruit. Pedicels 

 erect, twice as long as the bracts and calyx. Sepals oblong- 

 oblaneeolate, obtuse, ciliated with short incurved hairs without 

 glands at the tips. Capsule half as long again as the calyx, 

 subrhomboidal-elliptical, faintly emarginate, much compressed, 

 without conspicuous prominent veins, clothed with short incurved 

 hairs ; lobes approximate, with scarcely any notch between them. 

 Seeds nearly flat on the inner face. Style as long as the capsule. 

 Plant glabrous, except the branches, pedicels, calyx, and capsule, 

 which are clothed with short incurved hairs without glan- 

 dular tips. 



On hedges of alpine rocks. Rare. Known to occur only on the 

 Clova Mountains, Forfarshire, and the Breadalbane Mountains, 

 Pertbshire. It has been reported from Ben More, in Sutherland ; 

 and probably the plant observed on Ben Cruachan, in Argyleshire, 

 by the Rev. Dr. Walker, belonged to tbis species, and not to V. 

 fruticulosa. 



Scotland. Shrub. Late Summer. 



A small much-branched shrub, with the barren branches 

 spreading, the flowering branches erect from a decumbent base, 

 2 to i inches high. Leaves ^ to ^ inch long, distant except on tbe 

 barren shoots and at the base of tbe flowering branches, thick, the 

 lower ones and those on the barren branches generally entire ; tbose 

 on the flowering-shoots more or less bluntly serrated in tbe middle. 

 Flowers 2 to 6. Corolla ^ inch across, bright-blue, with darker 

 stripes, and tinged with red at the throat. Capsule £ inch long. 

 Plant deep-green, scarcely turning black in drying. 



