Vero?iica>'] 



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11. LiMOSELLA. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. campanulate, equal. Caps, l-celled. 

 12! SiBTHORPiA. Cal. 5-sepaled. Cor. rotate, segments unequal. Caps. 



2-celled5 loculicidal. 



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C. Stainens 5. 



13. Verbascum. Cal. 5-sepaled. Cor. rotate, segments unequal. Caps. 



2- celled, septicidal. 



A. Stamens 2. (Gen. 1.) 



1. Vekonica Linn, Speedwell. 



Cor. 4-cleft, rotate, lower segment narrower. Stam, 2. Caps. 

 2-celled. — IsTame first introduced into Botany in the middle 

 ages, supposed by some to be the same as Bernice or Beronice ; 

 and by others to be derived from upa eucojv^ the sacred picture^ 

 the flowers (like St. Veronica's handkercliief) being imagined 

 to bear a representation of the countenance of Our Saviour ; 

 (scarcely from the Persic ^ ?;^r^/, rememhrance^ and niku^ good), 



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* Root perennial. Spikes or racemes terminaL 

 "f Tube of the corolla longer than its own diameter, 



L V. spicdta L. {spiked >S'.); raceme spicate elongated dense, 

 leaves pubescent ovate or lanceolate crenato-seri-ate entire 

 towards the apex, the lower ones broader obtuse stalked, stem 

 ascending branched only at the vei^y base, capsule ovate emar- 

 ginate with a long style. — a, lower leaves oblong wedge-shaped 

 at the base. E. B. t. 2. — f3. lower leaves ovate rounded or 

 subcordate at the base. V. hybrida Z.; E. B, t. C73. 



Rare. In dry chalky pastures about Newmarket and Bury, 

 in Lancashire and in Wales. 2/.» 7, 8, 



/3. 



V. liumifusa 



ff Tube of the corolla very short, 



2. V. serpyllifolialj. (Thyme-leaved S.)\ raceme somewhat 



spiked many-flowered, leaves broadly ovate or elliptical very 



obtuse slightly crenate, capsules inversely rcniform as long as 



the style. — a, racemes elongated. E, B. t. 1075. — ^S. alpina; 



stem prostrate often rooting, racemes short. 

 Dicks. 



Pastures and road-sides, abundant. On high mountains. %. 

 5f6, — The var. ^. is a singular and very beautiful one, and Is often 

 mistaken for V, alpina. lu both, the stems, and sometimes the leaves^ 

 are more or less pubescent. 



3. V. alpina L. (alpine S,) ; raceme corymbose few-flowered, 

 leaves elliptic-ovate toothed or entire, loVer ones smaller, ra- 

 ceme han-y, hairs spreading not 2^1andular, capsule obovate 

 liotched tipped with the very short s^le. E. B. t. 484^. 



1 Certainly net Arabic, as stated in Kales and Queries, vol. ix. p. 537* 



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