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they are broadeft at the bafe, fmaller all the way 
to the point, and fharply ferrated. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale blue: they 
ftand in long fpikes, rifing from the bofoms of 
the leaves, and from the top of the ftalk; and 
many of them ufually open together. 
The feed-veffel is heart-fafhioned, ‘and not 
large. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
July. 
‘ C. Bauhine calls it Chamedrys puria major al- 
‘tera five frutefcens. 
6. Jagged-leaved Speedwell. 
Veronica folits laciniatis. 
The root is long, fingle, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, a little hairy, a 
foot high, and is divided into feveral branches. 
The leaves are numerous, and they are deeply 
and beautifully divided: their colour is a pale 
| ‘green, and they are a little hairy. 
The flowers are {mall and biue: they ftand on 
fhort footftalks in a kind of loofe fpikes. 
The feed-veffel is heart-fafhioned and {mall ; 
and the feeds are. minute and brown. 
Tt is a native of Italy and Germany, and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Chamedrys auftriaca foliis 
-tenstiffime laciniatis. Morifon, Veronica tenuiffime 
laciniata. 
oh Large-flowered little Speedwell. 
Veronica pumila flore majore. 
"The root is compofed of many long and flen- 
der fibres, 
Go E 
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The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, and 
four inches high. 
The leaves ftand ufually in pairs, though fome- 
times they grow irregularly on the lower part of 
the ftalks: they are fmall, thort, without foot- 
ftalks, and fharply ferrated. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks ia 
little tufts, and are large, and of a beautiful 
blue. P 
The feed-veftels are heart fafhioned and fmall. 
It isa native of the mountainous parts of Italy. 
C. Bauhine calls it Chamedrys Alpina faxatilis. 
Others, eucrium petreum pumilum. Others, 
Bonarota and Pederota, making it a diftin& 
genus, but with little foundation in nature. 
It is particular, that the leaves feem to have 
ftood as the character of germander, with the 
old authors, rather than the flowers; for in ger- 
mander thofe are of the labiated kind, 
8. Dwarf Speedwell. 
Chamedrys pumila. 
This is a very fingular, and very pretty {pecies, 
The root is long, divided, and creeping. 
The fhoots are numerous from various parts, 
and they confift each of a large clufter of leaves, 
fupported together on a fhort, firm ftalk. 
Thefe are fmall, oval, of a beautiful green, 
and finely ferrated at theedges, — 
Among thefe rife the ftalks, which are minute, 
flender, and have no leaves. On their tops 
ftand little clufters of flowers, four or five on 
each, which are large in proportion to the plant. 
The feed-veffels are {mall and heartfathioried. 
It is common ‘i the Pyrénean mountains, and 
flowers in {pring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Verchita Alpina’ Dellidis folie. 
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ae flowers confift each of a fingle petal, tubular at the lower part, 
ments at the rim, and they ftand in long fpikes rifing from the bofo 
the feed-veffel is heart-fafhioned. 
“the tops of the ftalks: 
feaves ftand in pairs. 
Linnzus places this among his diandria monog 
name, making it a f{pecies of veronica. 
The flowers and feed-veflels indeed agree with thofe of veronica ; 
the plants from one another; and nature has given fufficient charaét 
fhould therefore feek them there, 
The determinations of this author, who is at prefent wich man 
be confidered as fo abfolute, with refpect to joining and feparating 
“gine. He frequently changes his own opinions; and to know what he h 
laft works mutt be feen. Thus, in the laft fpecies but one of the fpeedw 
it from the reft, and taken away its name veronica, making it a dift 
bonarota, Linneeus, in his Genera Plantarum, followed this divifion, 
rate genus; and, again changing the name, called it pederota : 
again changed his opinion, and, deftroying that new and idly fou 
ronica, We give this as an inftance, that the 
as fome of his fervile followers think 
the fake of utility. 
There are but three known fpecies of drooklin 
and divided into four feg- 
ms, of the leaves, not on 
The ftalks are thick and flefhy, and the 
yuia; but he takes away its determinate and diftine&: 
but as itis ufeful to diftinguifh 
ers in the reft of the herb, we 
y the oracle of botany, are not to 
the genera of plants, as fome ima- 
as determined at prefent his 
ells, Micheli had feparated 
inc genus, under that of 
eftablifhed the plant as a fepa- 
but in his laft publifhed work he has 
inded genus, makes it a {pecies of ve= 
; genera eftablithed by Linnzus are not fo irrevocable 
3 and as an excufe for i ing fro 
3 our fometimes departing ftom them, fox: 
¢, and they are all natives of this country, 
1. Common 
