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**** Flowers axillary, solitary j seeds concave. 



15. V. agrestis{h.); 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-serrate, 

 Sep. oblong-obtuse, stam. inserted at the very bottom of the cor., 

 caps, of 2 turgid keeled lobes, seeds about 6 in a cell.— B. B. S. 

 260a. St. 58. 14. R. I. f. 440.— St. procumbent. Caps, hairy 

 all over, or only ciliate on the keel ; hairs all straight and glan- 

 dular. L. usually exceeding the peduncles. Lower cor.-lip 

 white. — [F. opaca (Fries) with spathulate sep., fewer seeds, 

 " hairs on caps, incurved short with a few longer and glandular," 

 stam. inserted in the throat of cor. ; is probably British.] — Fields 

 and waste places. A. IV. — IX. Green Field Speedwell. 



16. V. polita (Fnes) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-ser- 

 rate, Sep. broadly ovate acute, stam. inserted at the very bottom 

 of the cor., caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 8 — 12 in a cell. — E. B. 

 783. St. 58. 16. R. I. f. 404. 405.— St. procumbent. Caps, with 

 short dense glandless hairs and other shorter glandular ones, 

 rarely glabrous. L. usually falling short of the peduncles. Fl. 

 wholly blue. — j3. grandiflnra ; cor. as large as that of V. Bux- 

 baumii. — Fields and waste places. ^. Uerwickshire. Cambridge. 

 Bury St. Edmonds. A. IV. — IX. Crray Field Speedwell. 



*17. V. Buxbaumii (Ten.); 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise- 

 serrate, Sep. lanceolate acute, stam. from the bottom of the cor., 

 caps, of 2 divaricate lobes compressed upwards and sharply 

 keeled, seeds about 8 in a cell.— JB. B. S. 2769. St. 56. 5. R. I. 

 430. 431. — St. long, procumbent. L. falUng short of the pe- 

 duncles. Fl. twice the size of those of the preceding, as large as 

 those of V. Chammdrys, blue. — Fields. A. IV. — IX. 



18. V. hederifolia (L.); I. with 5 — 7 large toothlike lobes all 

 stalked, sep. cordate ciliate, caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 2 in 

 each cell. — B. B. 784. St. 56. 6.— St. procumbent. Fl. pale blue. 

 — Fields and banks. A. IV. — VI. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. 



[Acanthus mollis, belonging to the Order Acanthacece, has 

 been introduced by unknown agency into the isle of St. Agnes, 

 Scilly (A. N. H. ser. 2. viii. 505) ; but having very slender claims 

 to be included in the British Flora, it is not described here.] 



Order LVIII. LABIATiE. 



Cal. tubular, regular or 2-lipped, persistent. Cor. 2-lipped, 

 upper lip entire or bifid, lower 3-cleft. Stam. 4, didynamous, 

 rarely 2. Ovary free, 4-lobed. Style 1, from the base of the 

 lobes ; stigma bifid. Fr. in 1 — 4 small nutlike portions. — Figures 

 of all the genera will be found in G. F. G. Gam. ii. 



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