Veronica.] scrophulaeiace^. 341 



bent, capsule of 2 turgid keeled lobes, cells about 6-seeded." -^ 

 Br. Fl. p. 292. E. B. S. t. 2603. 



Common in waste and cultivated ground, fallows, on and under walls, banks, 

 &c. /"/.March — December. 0. 



Whole plant somewhat hispid with white bristly hairs. Pedicels rather vari- 

 able in length, but never greatly exceeding the leaves ; usually they are much 

 shorter. 



A singular variety of this species has been observed for some years growing 

 amongst long grass in the grounds at Sleephill, with an upright stem, and a soli- 

 tary terminal flower, of a fine blue, on a lung pedicel, and nearly as large as those 

 of V. Chamcedrys. 



11. V. polita, Fries. Gray Procumbent Speedwell. Procum- 

 bent, leaves all petiolate cordato-ovate inciso-serrate, calyx-seg- 

 ments broadly ovate acute scarcely longer than the two turgid 

 keelless lobes of the capsule whose cells are many - seeded. 

 V. agrestis, E. B. xi. t. 783. Borrer in E. B. Suppl. t. 2603. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 449. V. agrestis 0., Br. Fl. p. 292. 



In the same places as the last, and scarcely less common. Fl. March — -De- 

 cember. . 



Very closely allied to the preceding species, from which it is readily known at 

 a distance by its bright blue flowers and grayish herbage, and on a nearer exa- 

 mination by the more deeply cut or serrated leaves ; the broadly ovate and pointed 

 sepals, which are almost equal to, or but little exceeding, the ripe capsule in 

 length ; in the very turgid subglobose lobes of the capsule, which are quite 

 rounded or obtuse along their suture, without any visible marginal attenuation or 

 keel ; and, lastly, by having many more seeds in the cells (mostly from 10 to 12 

 in each), and smaller. 



*12. Y. Buxbaumii, Ten. Buxbaum's Speedwell. "Leaves all 

 petiolate cordate-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower- 

 stalks, segments of the calyx lanceolate acute when in fruit much 

 divaricated, stem procumbent, capsule obcordate-tviangular of two 

 turgid divaricated lobes which are compressed upwards and 

 sharply keeled, ceUs 8—12 seeded."— Br. Fl. p. 292. E. B. 

 Suppl. xxxviii. t. 2769. Bert. Fl. Ital. i. p. 102. Fl. Danica, t. 

 1982. Johnsons Fl. of Benv.-on-Tiveed, p. 225, cum icone. 



In cultivated fields, gardens, on hedgebanks and waste ground about towns ; 

 rare, and certainly introduced. Fl. March. 0. 



E. Med. — A weed in the garden of a shoemaker, named Herbert, on Eoyal 

 heath, at the S. end of the heath, near the Coast-guard Station ; also in an adja- 

 cent field and hedgebanks. Sparingly about the Sandown barrack-buildings. In 

 considerable abundance amongst the new plantation at E. Cowes park. In very 

 great profusion on the waste lots at E. Cowes park. Tn the grounds at Biustead, 

 A. Hambrough, Esq. ! [At St. John's, near Ryde, in a field at the back of St. 

 John's kitchen-garden, and in cultivated ground by the gardeners cottages on 

 the property of G. Young, Esq. ; also at Bembridge, by the footpath opposite 

 Tyne Hall, Dr. Bell-Salter, Edrs.] 



Root slender, branched and fibrous. Stem one or more, procumbent, with 

 ascending tips, oppositely branched immediately above the root and for a short 

 distance upwards, afterwards simple, from a few inches to 1 or 2 feet in length, 

 according to its age, often rooting from the lower joints, stout, terete, greenish or 

 purplish, clothed with copious long, white, spreading hairs, partly straight and 

 partly curved upwards, somewhat disposed in two opposite lines, and intermixed 



