Veronica Montana. Mountain Speedwell. 



VERONICA Lin. Gen. PL Diandria Monogynia. 



Cor. Limbo 4 partito, lacinia infima anguftiore. Capfula bilocularis, 



RaiiSyn. Gen. 18. Herb^e fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 



VERONICA montana racemis lateralibus paucifloris, calycibus hirfutis, foliis ovatis rugofis crenatis 

 petiolatis, caule debili. Lin, Syjl. Vegetab. Sp. PL p. j6. 



VERONICA caule procumbente, foliis hirfutis, cordatis, retufis, racemis paucifloris. Bailer, hift. 

 n. 539. 



CHAM^EDRYI fpurias affinis rotundifolia fcutellata; Bauh. pin. 249. 



ALYSSON Diofcoridis montanum. Col. Ecph. 1. 286. 



VERONICA Chamaedryoides, foliis pediculis oblongis infidentibus. Raii Syn. p. 281« Wild Ger- 

 mander with Leaves Handing on long Foot-ftalks. 



Light foot FL Scot. p. 6. 



* 

 Hud/on. F/. AngL ed. 2. p. 74. 



RADIX perenriis, fibrofa, fibrillis praslongis, fufcis. | ROOT perennial and fibrous, the fibres very long and 



I brown . 



CAULES procumbentes, verfus bafin faepe radicantes, % STALKS procumbent, often taking root towards the 

 teretes, pilis mollibus undique hirfuti, pur- | bafe, round, covered with foft hairs, and 



purafcentes. % purplilh. 



FOLIA oppofita, petiolata, ovato-cordata, obtufiufcula, % LEAVES oppofite, ftanding on footftalks, ovato-cor- 

 insequaliter ferrata, hirfutula, nitidula, fub- | date, a little blunt, unequally ferrated, 



tus purpurafcentia, parum concava et bullata. X (lightly hairy, fomewhat mining, purplilh 



| underneath, a little hollow and cockled. 



PETIOLI longitudine fere foliorem, hirfutimmi. $ LEAF-STALKS almoft the length of the leaves, and 



% very hairy. 



RACEMI laterales, alternL, fubinde oppofiti, tenues, | FLOWER -BRANCHES lateral, alternate, fometimes 

 hirfuti, pauciflori. % oppofite, flender, hairy, fupporting few 



I flowers. 



PEDUNCULI alterni, hirfuti, bra&asa lanceolata fuf- % FLOWER-STALKS alternate, hairy, fupported by 



fulti. * a narrow floral-leaf. 



CALYX: Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis fubas- | CALYX: a Perianthium compofed of four leaves, 

 qualibus, ovatis, bafi anguftatis, hirfutis, % which are nearly equal, ovate, narrowed at 



pilis ad l'entem globuligeris. fig. 1. | the bafe, hairy, the hair? globular at the ex- 



■% tremity. when magnified, fig, 1. 



COROLLA monopetala, rotata, ex purpureo-casrulef- | COR.OLLA monopetalous, wheel-fhaped, of a blueifh 

 cens, fuprema lacinia faturatius colorata, | purple colour, the uppermofr. fegment more 



una cum lateralibus venis caeruleis picfa, in- % deeply coloured than the others, and together 



fima minore immaculata, tubus breviflimus, | with the fide ones ftreakt with blue veins, 



albus. Jig. 2. ¥ tne lowermoft leaft without any veins, the 



t tube very fhort and white, fig. 2. 



STAMINA : Filamenta duo, tubo corollas inferta, | STAMINA : two Filaments, inferted into the tube 

 bali albida, curvata, medio craffiora ; Anthe- % of the corolla, whitifh at the bafe, bent, 



rje ceeruleae ; Pollen album, fig. 3. | thickeft in the middle; Anthers blue; 



I Pollen white, fig. 3. 



PISTILLUM: Germen obovatum, hirfutum ; Sty- f PISTILLUM : Germen inverfely ovate, hairy ; Style 

 lus fuperne feniim incranatus ; Stigma | towards the top gradually thickened ; Stig- 



capitatum, album, fig. 4. 5. % ma forming afmall white head. fig. 4. 5. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula magna, orbiculata, emar- | SEED-VESSEL : a large, round, flat Capsule nicked 



ginata, comprefla. fig. 6. $ at top. fig. 6. 



SEM1NA pauca, ovata, plana, flavefcentia. fig. 7. % SEEDS few, ovate, flat and yellowiih. fig. 7. 



The Veronica montana is very fimilar in its general appearance to the Chamtedrys, and of which, by fome au- 

 thors, it has been confidered as only a variety ; but this has arifen from a very fuperficial enquiry, as no two 

 plants can be more diftinct ; Linnjeus might indeed have felected a fpecific character, which would effectually 

 have removed every doubt of this kind, viz. the fhape and fize of the feed-vefiels, thefe in the montana are at 

 leaft thrice as large as thofe of the chamadrys, they are alfo much rounder and flatter, while the flowers on the 

 contrary are not more than half as large, and much lefs fliowy ; when we have not thefe characters to afTift us, 

 the ftalk and leaves will in general be fuffkient, in the chamsedrys the hairs grow on two fides of the ftalk 

 only, in the montana they grow all around it, in the chamtedrys the leaves are generally feflile, in the rnontana 

 they ft and on footftalks. 



Thefe two plants differ alfo in their places of growth, the montana, fo far as. I have obferved it, preferring 

 moift and lhady fituations, whence the term montana feems ill-applied to it; near London, it is found plenti- 

 fully in Charlton Wood, behind the Church, and flowers in June and July. 



