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5. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. 
Veronica hedere folio. 
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The root is a clufter of fmall fibres. 
The firft leaves are roundifh, but indented ifto 
three, and fometimes more divifions: they rife 
fix or eight together, and have fhort footftalks. 
‘The ftalks ars numerous, weak, and fix or 
eight inches high. 
The leaves ftand alternately on them, and 
have footftalks: they are divided deeply into 
three parts; and in fome degree refemble the 
leaves of ivy in miniature: their colour is a pale 
green, and they are hairy. 
The flowers ftand fingly on fhort footftalks - 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves; and they 
. are fmall and bluifh. 
The feed-veffels follow, and are heart-fafhion- 
ed: the feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is common in corn-fields and in garden bor- 
ders ; and flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it A/fine hederulz folio. Ray, 
Veronica, flofeulis fingularibus hederule folio, In 
Englith we call it Small benbit, or Ivy-leaved 
chickweed. 
6. Chickweed-fpeedwell with footftalks. 
Veronica floribus fingularibus in oblongis pediculis. 
The root is long, flender, and edged with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are fhort and broad. « 
The ftalks are numerous and weak ; fome trail 
upon the ground, and fome ftand ereét, and they 
are five inches high. 
The leaves ftand alternate, and they have 
fhort footflalks : they are broad, fhort, ferrated, 
and fharp-pointed, but of a dead green. 
The flowers and fingly on footltalks rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, and they are 
{mall, and blue; fometimes, but more feldom, 
white. 
The feed-veffél is large, and heart-fafhioned, 
and is flatted at the top. 
It is common on walls and in dry places, and } 
flowers early in fpring: 
C, Bauhine calls it “fine chamadryfolia Hlofculis 
pediculis oblongis infidentibus. 
7. Chickweed-fpeedwell, without footftalks. 
Leronica floribus fingularibus caulibus adberentibus. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of fibres. 
The ftalk is round, weak, and very much 
branched. ° 
The leaves ftand in pairs without footttalks, 
and are fhort and broad, of a pale green, flightly 
ferrated at the edges, and a little hairy. 
The flowers (tand in a long feries on the tops of 
the ftalks and branches, and are fmall and blue, 
ftriated on the infide, and ufually pale: thefe 
have no footftalks, bue grow to the ftalk; and 
under thefe there grow alternately leaves of a 
different form from thofe on the reft of the plant: 
‘they are thort, oval, and not at all indented, and 
The feed-veffel is fat and heart-fafhioned. 
It is common on walls and in dry places, where 
it grows:from two to five inches in height. It 
flowers in fpring. 5 
C. Bauhine calls it MW/ine foliis-veronice, foliis et 
flofeulis caulibus adberentibus. QOthers,. Veronica 
foliis oppofitis floribus fepilibus. 
8. Fingered-leaved fpeedweil. 
Veronica foliis alternis digitatis: 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a great number of fibres. : if, 
The ftalks are numerous, round, thick, of a 
pale green, partly erect, and in part procums 
bent, and three or four inches in height. - 
The leaves are numerous, and ftand irregular- 
ly: they differ from thofe of all the other {pecies 
in fhape, being divided in a fingered manner, fome 
into three, and others into five parts. Thofe to- 
ward the bottom of the ftalk are divided into five 
parts, thefe are feparated down to the bafe in 
the manner of fingers; and the three middle di- 
vifions are longer, the two outfide ones fhorter ; 
they are all narrow and pointed: the leaves on 
the upper part of the ftalks are divided only into 
three parts each, and thefe, of the fame form with 
the others: the lower leaves often fall off as the 
plant grows up; and the others only, or at leaft 
principally, remaining and appearing as each , 
compofed of three feparate leaves, have. occa- 
fioned many to call it ¢rifoliate fpeedwell. 
The flowers are large and purple : they ftand.on 
fingle footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
leaves, and make a pretty appearance. : 
The feed-veffel is large, flat, and) heart-fa- 
fhioned, and contains many.fmall feeds. 
It is found in fome-of our northern counties 
in barren paftures and in gravel-pits; and flowers 
in May. ‘ 
C. Bauhine calls it Veronica triphyllos cerulea, 
Lobel, Aline parva regia folio alfines hederacee 
ruta mode divifo. Others Alive reffa. 
9. Bugle-leaved Speedwell. 
Veronica bugule folio Subbirfuto, 
The root is long, flender, and full of fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife 
Tom it are large and. 
oblong: they have fhort footftalks, and grow 
in atuft, eight, ten, or more together, 
Among thefe rife the footftalks, which are nu- 
merous, round, and fomewhat hairy, and eight 
or ten inches high, - 
i The leaves ftand in pairs at diftances, and. are, 
like thofe from the root, oblong, broad, and 
placed on fhort footftalks : they are crenated at ~ 
the edges, and obtufe at the end, 
The flowers are large and blue: 
long fpikes, fometimes One, 
more. on the 
nourifhment. 
The feed-veffels are heart-fafhioned and flatted. 
It 18a native of Wales, and flowers in July. 
It is defcribed in the third edition of Ray’s 
they ftand in 
fometimes three or 
Plant, aecording to its degree. of- 
they fomewhat refemble the leaves. of garden- 
thyme. 7 
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Synopfis under the name of Veronica fpicata 
Combrobritannica bugule fubbirfuto folio. 
10, Little 
