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802 LxiL SCROPHULARiACE^. [ Veronica 



nearly so, the terminal tooth or lobe the largest. Pechmcles lon2;er ' #^^^< 



than the leaves, recurved when bearing fruit. Ovary 4-ovuled, Cam 1 1(1 ^' 



of two rounded glabrous lobes, each lobe having 2 (sometimes only \\ \ t^^^ 



large, black, transversely wrinkled, oval, gibbous seeds, which are * ^f^K'' 

 hollowed on the under-side. ^' 



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10. V. ag-remti^ xj. [^grctn jjrucamue/u jrieta o.^ ; leaves all I f)5, 



petiolate cordate-ovate inciso-serrate about as long as the flower- *'' r^' 



stalks, segments of the calyx somewhat ovate or oblong, stem 1 ^^^A' 



procumbent, capsule broadly suborbicular of 2 turgid keeled ^'^'^f. 



approximated lobes, cells 6 — 10-seeded. — «. sepals cblong obtuse, 1 «^^^"'^ 



lower part of the corolla whitish. Bor7\ in E. B. S, t. 2603,' 1 !?• , 



/3. sepals ovate acute, petals wholly blue. E. B. t. 783. V. | '^^^ 



polita Fries, ' I 1 u ^ 



Fields and waste places, abundant. ©. 4 — 9. — Prostrate, Stems 

 S — 4 inches long, slightly hairy. Fruit of two round tumid lobes, 

 much smaller than the calyx. Seeds large. Cupped. V, agrestis,V, us'^^^ 



polita, and V.opaca Fries (v/ith spathulate sepals) agree in so many 

 points, and differ in so few, and these of a variable nature in the genus, 

 that we agree with Mr. Bentham that they form but one species. 



14. "^Y. BuxhaicmiiTen. (Buxbaurn^s S.) ; leaves all petiolate 

 cordate-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower-stalks, sen;- 

 ments of the calyx lanceolate acute when in fruit much divari- 

 cated, stem procumbent, capsule obcordate-triangular of two 

 turgid divaricated lobes which are compressed upwards and 

 sharply keeled, cells 8— 12-seeded. E. B. S. t. 2769. ! C*^'-'^; 



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Margate; plentiful among turneps in a field adjoining the Bird-in- 

 hand Inn, Biirford, Oxfordshire; near Newcastle, along with both | ^f'^ * 

 varieties of F. agrestls ; Syderstrand, Norfolk, under a sunny wall. J '^^'' ^^ 

 Shrubbery at Whiterig, Berwickshire; near Dunfermline, and near 



Glasgow, O, 4 — 9. — Tills plant is distinguished from T. agrestis \ StSurinai 



by its larger size, and greater hairiness, the divaricated lobes of the 

 capsule, which are compressed upwards and sharply carinate, and the 

 larger blue corolla, rivalling in size and beauty that of V. Chanmdnjs. 



1. B. i^ 

 oute obti 

 in 3 ternii 



lleaUhv 



,.,.ri 



same root. 



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. . . ^ ^ ^ 1 liocba 



allt/ much smaller than the cauline ones). Pedicels erect or nearly so, \ leton Tet 



15. V. arvensis L. (Wall S.) ; leaves cordate-ovate serrate 

 the lower ones petiolate, the upper or bracteas sessile lanceolate 



quite entire longer than the flowers, pedicels shorter than the ■ lar^ed 



calyx, capsules broadly obcordate compressed emaro-inate with 1 ' ^ "^ 

 roundish ciliated lobes, seeds 12—14 compressed flat'^ou the one 

 side, stem ascending. E. B. t. 734. 



Fields and walls, plentiful. 0. 4— 7. — Very different from the V^^t 

 last three, especially m its inflorescence, which, if the upper leaves be i .*«« 



considered bracteas as they really are (for they differ both in size and > 



shape from the cauhne ones), is truly racemose or subspicate. The ^C 







