103 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



are prostrate, and creep amongst the moss and weeds among 

 which the plant grows. Stem 4 inches to 2 feet high, slender, 

 breaking readily at the nodes. Leaves 1 to 2^ inches long, 

 variable in breadth, from ^ to ^ inch. Racemes 1 to 6 inches 

 long, spreading or reflexed in fruit, when the pedicels also are 

 divaricate. Corolla about \ inch across, white, generally with pink 

 lines. Capsule £ inch long, very similar to that of V. montana, 

 but not so deeply notched at the base, and much more deeply so 

 at the apex, and destitute of the protuberances on the border, 

 l'lant usually glabrous, rather dull-green and slightly shining, but 

 olten more or less pubescent, sometimes wholly clothed with 

 jointed hairs, in which case it has been distinguished as a species 

 under the name V. parmularia, by Turpin and Poiteau, in their 

 " Flore Parisienne ;" nevertheless it scarcely deserves even the 

 name of a variety, the hairiness apparently depending on situation, 

 as it is usually in dry places that the pubescent form occurs. 

 Plant turning blackish in drying. 



Harsh Speedwell. 



French, Vcronique d, Ecusson. German, ScMldfr'uchtiger Ehrenpreis. 



SPECIES XVII.— V ERONICA ANAGALLIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCLXXXIX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 596. 



Stem succulent, very stout, hollow, erect, or sometimes slightly 

 decumbent at the base, paniculately branched or simple in small 

 specimens, branches curving upwards. Leaves sessile, semi-am- 

 plexicaul, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, subcordate, acute, 

 nearly entire and callously denticulate or serrate-denticulate. 

 Flowers very numerous, in lax axillary racemes elongating much 

 in fruit. Peduncles opposite, much longer than the leaves ; pedi- 

 cels longer than the calyx, and usually exceeding the bracts, more 

 rarely equal to or shorter than the bracts (rarely twice as long), 

 at length spreading. Sepals 4, elliptical, acute, glabrous or with 

 a few gland-tipped hairs. Capsule about two-thirds the length of 

 the calyx or equalling it, orbicular, slightly compressed, emargi- 

 nate, without elevated veins, surrounded by a border without pro- 

 jecting points ; lobes contiguous, separated by a slight notch and 

 a deep impressed line at the junction of the carpels. Style about 

 half the length of the capsule. Plant glabrous, or with the 

 peduncles, pedicels, and sepals sparingly clothed with short gland- 

 tipped hairs. 



