6 DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



peregvina. £, V. flowers sessile ; leaves linear-lanceolate, den- 

 tate and sometimes very entire ; stem erect. 

 Willd. fc? Vahl. 



V. Caroliniana, Walt. fl. Car. p. 61. 



V. Marilandica, Murr. Com. Goett. 1782. p. 11. 

 t. 3. 



V. Romana, Allionii, Trans. Lin. Soc. vol. i. p. 

 192. 



V. Romana, Lin. Mantiss. 317. 



V. Carnosula, Lam. illustr. 1. p. 47. 

 Icon. Murr. 1. c. Fl. Dan. 407. 



Neck-weed, Knot-grass-leaved Speedwell. 



An ordinary looking- amorphous plant, found in and near 

 dirty ditches, and in cultivated grounds. Common, particu- 

 larly in the Neck. Flowers small, white, fugacious. Annu- 

 al, May to August. 



4. Leptandha, Nuttall. Gen. Am. PI. ( Antirrhinea . ) 



Cal. 5 -parted, segments acuminate. Cor. tu- 

 bular-campanulate, border 4-lobed, a little 

 ringent, unequal, the lower lamina narrower. 

 Stamina and at length the pistillum much 

 exserted ; filaments below, and tube of the 

 corolla pubescent. Capsule ovate, acumi- 

 nate, 2-celled, many-seeded, opening at the 

 summit? Nutt. 



virjinica. 1. L. stem erect, angular. Leaves verticillate, lan- 

 ceolate, serrate. Spikes somewhat terminal, long. 

 Veronica Virginica, auctorum. Icon. Piuk, aim. t. 

 70. f. 2. 



Virginian Speedwell. Tall Veronica. 



This plant has been very judiciously, though boldly, sepa. 

 rated from the genus Veronica, where it always had a forced 

 alliance. 



Stem from three to six feet high, angular. Leaves mostly 

 in threes, fives and sixes ; always verticillate. Flowers white, 



