264 57. SCEOPHFLARIACE^. 



branclied in tlie lower part. Caps, smooth, or downy, with 

 rounded lobes. Style very short. Seeds 12 — 14. Sep. linear- 

 lanceolate, unequal. — Sandy heaths. Bury, Thetford, and Mil- 

 denhall, Suff. A. V. E. 



tt Seeds concave. 



13. V. iriphyVlos (L.) ; I. fingered, lower 1. ovate entire or 

 dentate stalked, raceme slightly spiked lax fezv-fiowered, ped. 

 exceeding the calyx, caps, obcordate compressed smooth ciliate 

 on the keel. — E. B. 26. — St. erect with spreading branches, 4 — 5 

 in. high. Fl. deep blue. Ped. usually longer than the leaves. 

 Sep. oval. Known by its spreading St., deeply fingered 1., and 

 dark-blue flowers. — Sandy fields. Bury, Mildenhall, Brandon, 

 &c., SufF. York. A. IV. E. 



**** Flowers axillary, solitary. Seeds concave. iSt. prostrate. 



14. V. agres'tis (L.) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-serrate, 

 Sep. oval, stam. inserted at the very bottom of the cor., caps, of 

 2 turgid keeled lobes, seeds about 6 in a cell. — E. B. S. 2603. 

 B. I. f. 440. — Caps, hairy all over, or only ciliate on the keel ; 

 hairs all straight and glandular. L. usually exceeding the pe- 

 duncles. Lower cor. -lip white. — [F. opaca (Fries), with spa- 

 thulate 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. E. S. I. 



15. V. polita (Fries) ; 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 iu a cell. — E. B. 

 783. B. I. f. 404, 405. — Caps, vrith short dense glandless hairs 

 and other shorter glandvilar ones, rarely glabrous. L. usually 

 falling short of the peduncles. Fl. wholly blue. — Cor. some- 

 times as large as that of F. Btixhaumii. — Fields and waste 

 places. A. IV. — IX. Oray Field Speedivell. E. S. I. 



*16. F. Buxbaum'ii (Ten.) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise- 

 serrate, sep. lanceolate-acute, stam. from the bottom of the cor., 

 caps, of 2 divaricate lohes compressed iipwards and sharply heeled, 

 seeds about 8 in a cell.— .E. B. S. 2769.— St. long. L. falling 

 short of the peduncles. Fl. twice the size of those of the pre- 

 ceding, as large as those of F. Chamcedrys, blue. — Fields. A. 

 IV.-IX. E. S. I. 



17. F. hederifdlia (L.); I. cordate tmth 5 — 7 large toothlike 

 lohes all stalked, sep. cordate-attenuate ciliate, caps, of 2 turgid 

 lobes, seeds 2 in each cell. — E. B. 784. — Fl. pale blue. — Fields 

 and banks. A. IV. — VI. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. E. S. I. 



