VERONICA. 



two diftinft, divaricated, rounded lobes, much fhorter than 

 the permanent calyx. Linnxus feems to have taken his 

 fpeciiic charafter from Columna's Ecphrafis, t. 290, which 

 reprefents a widely different fpecies, akin to Chamitdrys, 

 poffibly the Pontc of Gouan ; fee n. 64. 



71. V. amoena. Handfome-flowered Annual Speedwell. 

 Marfch. Taur.-Caucaf. v. i. 14. — " Flowers folitary. 

 Leaves ovate, crenate ; floral ones oblong, entire, mucii 

 fliorter than the flower-ftalks. Segments of the calyx 

 linear. Stem fpreading." — Gathered by the Chevalier de 

 Steven, in the fields of Georgia, flowering early in fpring. 

 Root annual. Herb the fize of V. arvenfis. The floral 

 leaves are minute and entire, fo different from the reft, as to 

 caufe a doubt whether they be other .than braBeas, and the 

 tnflorefcence racemofe. This is the moft beautiful fpecies of 

 the prefent feftion, on account of its very large blue 



fiotvers, white in the middle. Marfch. 



72. V. glauca. Glaucous Three-cleft Speedwell. Sm. 

 Fl. Graec. Sibth. v. 1.6. t. 7. — Flowers folitary. Leaves 

 heart-fhaped, deeply ferrated. Stems procumbent. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx three-cleft. — Native of the fummit of 

 mount Hymettus, above Athens. Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. 

 Root annual. Stems fpreading on the ground in every 

 direAion, much branched, reddifh, with a denfe hairy line 

 at each fide. Leaves glaucous, ftalked, more or lefs deeply 

 cut, fcarcely an inch long, moft hairy at the bafe and under- 

 neath ; the lower ones oppofite ; upper alternate. Flower- 



Jlalks capillary, fmooth, fliorter than the leaves. Calyx in 

 four very deep, nearly equal, wedge-fhaped fegments, re- 

 markable for being three-cleft, which well marks the 

 fpecies. Corolla deep blue, white in the centre. 



73. V. agrejlis. Procumbent Field Speedwell. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 18. WiUd. n.47. Vahl n. 58. Fl. Brit. n. 13. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 783. Curt. Lond. fafc. I. t. I. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 449. (V. folio chamaidryos ; Rivin. Monop. Irr. t. 99. 

 f. 2. Alfine foliis triffaginis ; Ger. Em. 616.) 



(3. Sm. Fl. Grsec. Sibth. v. i. 6. t. 8. (V. perfica; Poir. 

 in Lam. Dift. v. 8. 542. V. flofculis oblongis pedicuhs 

 infidentibus, chamxdryos folio, major ; Buxb. Cent. i. 26. 

 t. 40. f. 2.) 



Flowers fohtary. Leaves ovate, deeply ferrated, 

 Ihorter than the flower-ftalks. Stems procumbent. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx ovate. Seeds cupped Native of cul- 

 tivated and wafte ground, throughout Europe, annual, 

 flowering from April to the end of autumn. ,3 was 

 gathered by Dr. Sibthorp, in Prince's iflands, near Con- 

 ftantinople. Root fmall. Stems proftrate, fimple, except 

 at the bafe, round, leafy, hairy, from fix to twelve inches 

 long. Some of the lower leaves are oppofite, but the 

 greater part are alternate, all ftalked, roughiftl. Flowers 

 deep blue, rather fmall. Segments of the calyx ovato-lan- 

 ceolate, fringed, generally quite entire, now and then irre- 

 gularly toothed ; becoming broadly ovate as the fruit ad- 

 vances. Capfule rough, of two round fwelling lobes. Seeds 

 about fix in each cell, externally rugged, hollowed out 



underneath, where their ilalk is inferted We would gladly, 



if poffible, have made a diftindl fpecies of the V. byz,antina 

 of Sibthorp's manufcripts, our variety ^ ; but no difference 

 is to be found, except the greater fize of every part. The 

 corolla is much larger, paler, more elegantly ftreaked. 

 The form of the calyx, tumid capfule, and curious ftrufture 

 of t\ii feeds, are all the fame as in our common kind. 



74. V. arvenfis. Wall Speedwell, or Speedwell Chick- 

 weed. Linn. Sp. PI. 18. Willd. n. 48. Vahl n. 59. 

 Fl. Brit. n. 14. Engl. Bot. t. 734. Curt. Lond. fafc. 2. 

 t. 2. Fl. Dan. t. 515. Purfli n. 8. (Alfine foliis vero- 

 nicie; Ger. Em. 613. Alyffum ; Column. Phytob. 



t. 28.) — Flowers folitary, nearly feflile. Leaves ovate, 

 deeply ferrated ; the floral ones lanceolate, entire. Stem 

 ereft. Seeds flat. — Native of Europe, North America and 

 Japan, on walls, banks, and dry gravelly or fandy ground, 

 flowering in May. The herbage is of a pale green, rough. 

 Stem about fix inches high, branched from the bottom. 

 Loweft leaves on fhort ftalks ; the reft felTile ; the floral 

 ones fo fmall, as to feem like braSeas only, but their true 

 nature appears from the analogy of other annual fpecies. 

 Flowers fmall, pale blue ; their very fhort ftalks more or 

 lefs elongated as the fruit advances. Segments of the calyx 

 lanceolate, fomewhat unequal. Capfule inverfely heart- 

 fhaped, compreffed. Seeds eUiptical, flat, with a little 

 dimple in the centre of one fide. 



75. V. rotundifolia. Round-leaved Peruvian Speedwell. 

 " Fl. Peruv. v. 1.6." Vahl n. 60. — " Flowers fohtary, 

 ftalked. Leaves orbicular-kidneyfhaped, crenate. Stem 

 thread-fhaped, creeping." — Plentiful in boggy fituations in 

 Peru. Hairy. Stem flender, branched, round, purple. 

 Leaves two or three, often but one, from each joint, on 

 long ilalks, fomewhat peltate, deeply notched. Flower- 



Jlalks twice the length of the footflalks. Segments of the 

 calyx lanceolate. Corolla of a rofy purple, with ovate feg- 

 ments. Stamens three, the length of the tube. The 



flowers are occafionally five-cleft, with four ftamens. Vahl 

 from the Fl. Peruv. There is no figure, and having feen 

 no fpecimen, we are very ready to concur with Vahl, in his 

 opinion, that the genus of this plant is doubtful. 



76. V. cymbalaria. White Oriental Speedwell. Sm. 

 Fl. Graec. Sibth. v. i. 7. t. 9. (V. cymbalarisefolia; Vahl 

 n. 61. V. cymbalarifolia ; Gmel. Tubing. 6. V. hederi- 

 folia S ; Linn. Sp. PI. 19. Willd. n. 49. V. chia, cym- 

 balariae folio, verna, flore albo umbilico virefcente ; Touni. 

 Cor. 7. Buxb. Cent. i. 25. t. 39. f. 2.) — Flowers folitary. 

 Leaves heart-fhaped, deeply crenate. Segments of the 



calyx rounded. Seeds cupped, nearly fmooth Native of 



fields about Conftantinople, and in the Greek iflands, as 

 well as in Morocco. Annual. Stems fpreading or pro- 

 cumbent, branched at the bafe only, a fpan long, fquare, 

 with a hairy fine at two oppofite fides. Leaves all ftalked, 

 oppofite, rounded, obtufe, with two or three deep notches at 

 each fide, but fcarcely lobed. Flowers white with a yellow 

 centre, on long, oppofite, capillary ftalks, reaching beyond 

 their correfponding leaves. Segments of the calyx obovate, 

 obtufe, fringed, entire. Capfule turgid, of two round lobes, 

 hairy. Seeds only two in each cell, large, hollow at one 

 fide, nearly fmooth externally, chiefly wrinkled at the 

 margin. Very diftinft in its calyx from the following. 



77. V. hederifolia. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 19. Willd. n. 49. Vahl n. 62. Fl. Brit. n. 15. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 784. Curt. Lond. fafc. 2. t. i. Poit. et 

 Turp. Parif. 23. t. 26. Fl. Dan. t. 428. ( V. folio hederx ; 

 Rivin. Monop. Irr. t. 99. Alfine hederacea ; Ger. Em. 

 616. Alfines quartum genus ; Fuchf. Ic. 13.) — Flowers 

 fohtary. Leaves heart-fhaped, flat, five-lobed. Segments 

 of the calyx heart-fhaped, acute. Seeds cupped, wrinkled. 

 — Native of fields and wafte ground throughout Europe, 

 flowering in April and May. Annual, in habit like the 

 laft, but the leaves are more decidedly lobed, and ivy-like, 

 though of a pale green. They are alfo, except a very few 

 of the lowermoft, all alternate, moftly longer than their 



footjlalts. Flowers pale blue, on long, folitary, axillary 

 ilalks. Segments of the calyx nearly equal, pointed, three- 

 ribbed, with a very broad heart-fhaped bafe. Seeds much 

 more wrinkled at the outfide than the laft, but agreeing 

 with that fpecies and agrejlis in their reverfed cup-like form. 

 — The late Mr. Crowe obferved to the writer of this, after 



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