Veronica serpyllifolia. little smooth Speedwell, 



OR 



AUL'S OETONY. 



VERONICA Liwhei Gen, PL Diandria Monogynia. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 18. Herbje fructu sicco singulari, flore monopetalo. 

 VERONICA ferpylTifolia racemo terminali fubfpicato, foliis ovatis glabris, crenatis. Linrnei Syft. Vegetal, p, 



56. FI. Suecic. p. 6. 

 VERONICA caule reclo, foliis ovatis, glabris, crenatis, petiolis ex alls uninoris, breviffimis. Holler hift.n* 546. 



VERONICA prateniis ferpyllifolia. Bauhin Pin. 247. 

 VERONICA pratenfis minor. Parkin/on. 551. 

 VERONICA minor. Gerard emac. 627. 



VERONICA foemina quibufdam, aliis Betonica Pauli Serpyllifolia. /. Bauhin. III. 285, 

 VERONICA Raii Syn. p. 279. n. 3. Hud/on, FI. Angl. p. 4. n. 4 Scopoli FI. Carniol F.i. p. \2. n. 10 

 OEder FI. Dan. icon. 492. 



RADIX perennis, nbrofiflima. | ROOT perennial, and very fibrous. 



CAULES numerofi, ad balin repentes, dein erecti, fim_ y STALKS numerous, creeping at bottom, then growing 

 plices, palmares, teretes, laves. | upright, umple, three or four inches high, 



I round and imooth. 



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FOLIA oppofita, fubconnata, fubrotundo-ovata, rariier | LEAVES oppofite, nearly uniting at bottom, ofi a round- 



et objolete [errata, glabra, trinervia. | i/h-oval jorm, here una 'there /lightly [err 'ated, fmooth 



t and trinervous. 

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FLORES albi, venis cseruleis picti, fpicati, pedunculati, I FLOWERS white, coloured with blue veins or ftripes, 



alterni, Bracte.e magnae, ovatae. J growing in fpikes on foot-flalks alternately. 



I Floral leaves large and oval. 



I 

 CALYX: PERiANTHiuM.quadnpartitum, laciniis ovato- f CALYX: A Perianthium divided into four parts, 



acutis, glabris, jig. 1. f . tne Segments of an oval pointed fhape, and 



% fmooth, fig. 1 . 



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COROLLA monopetala, rotata ; tubus breviffimus ; la- | COROLLA monopetalous, wheel-ihaped, the tube very 



cimfc fubcordatae, mfenoreangufhore ; fupenore % fhort, the fegments fomewhat heart-fhaped, the 



lacima finis aut veins purpuras odo notata, | lower one narroweft ; the upper fegment marked 



Jaterahbus venis duabus, mferiore penitus alba, J w j t h eight purple veins or itripes, the fide ones 



fig- 2 • I with two, and the lower one entirely white^. 2. 



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STAMINA: Filamenta duo, alba, apice "incraflata, | STAMINA: two Filaments, white and thickifh to- 



fig. 5, 6. Anthers caerulefcentes. | wards the extremity; the Anthers blueifh 



PISTILLUM: Germen fubcompreflum Stylus albus, J PISTILLUM: the Germen flattilh, the Style white, 



apice paululum incraflatus, perfiftens. Stigma | a little thlcker towards the extremity, and con- 



capitatum, rubens, fig. 3. | turning. Stigma roundifh, and of a redifh 



I colour,^. 3. 



NECTARIUM ad bafin germinis, ut in Veronica Cha- | NECTARY at the bottom of the Germen as in the Ve~. 

 maedrys. J ron i ca Chamsedrys. 



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 PERICARPIUM : Capsula fubcordata, fufca, pro | SEED-VESSEL ; a Capsule fomewhat heart-fhaped, 

 magnitu dine plants» • magna, fig. 4. f of a brown colour, and large in proportion to 



| ^ the plant, fig. 4. 



ctt\ t $ SEEDS numerous, of a yellowiih brown colour, and 



bJ^MIJNf A plurima, 60 numeravi, e luteo-fufca, fub-ova- ? fomewhat oval fhape, fig. 8. We counted 60 



ta, fig 8. | I - m one ca pf u i e<i 



No t particular virtues are attributed to this little plant by Writers. 



It is one of the leaft of the Veronicas, and occurs frequently in Meadows and Fields, and fometimes in Gardens, 

 flowering m the Spring and Autumnal Months. 



There is a great deal of delicacy in its bloflbms, but they are too minute to make its beauty confpicuous enough 

 for the Garden. J r &> 



Its fmall, round, fmooth and mining leaves readily diftinguifh it from the other Speedwells. 



