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The Flora of Wiltskm. 



Leaves nearly sessile, ovate, usually glabrous as well as the rest 

 of the plant. Flowers very small, of a pale blue or white, with 

 dark blue streaks; sometimes flesh-coloured. Capsule broad, and 

 often rather deeply notched. 



8. V. arvensis, (Linn.) corn-field or wall Speedwell. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 734. St. 58. 11. 



Locality. Wall-tops, dry gravelly banks and fields. A. Fl. 

 April, July. Area 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Common in all the Districts. Stems upright, slender, rough, pale 

 green, about 6 inches high ; usually branched at the base. Flowers 

 small; light blue; white in the centre. Capsule smooth, broad, 

 much flattened, with rounded lobes, which are longer than the style. 



9. V. agrestis, (Linn.) field, or green procumbent Speedwell. 

 Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2603. St. 58. 14. Reich. Icones.f. 440. 



Locality. In cultivated ground, hedge-banks, and waste places. 

 A. Fl. April, September. Area 1 . 2. 3. 4. 5. 



In all the Districts common. Stems procumbent, from 3 to 8 or 

 10 inches long. Leaves shortly stalked, ovate and toothed. Sepals 

 ovate or oblong, usually larger than the corolla. Capsule composed 

 of 2 turgid keeled lobes, seeds about 6 in a cell. Lower part of 

 the corolla white. Closely allied to the next species V. polita, 

 but is almost always a larger plant, and of a yellower green. 



10. V. polita, (Fries.) polished or grey procumbent Speedwell. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 783. St. 58. 16. Reich. Icones.f. 404. 405. 



Locality. In cultivated ground, hedge-banks and waste places, 

 especially where the soil is somewhat sandy. A. Fl. April, Septem- 

 ber. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



In all the Districts but not common. Very closely allied to the pre- 

 ceding species, from which it is readily known at a distance by its 

 bright blue flowers and grayish herbage ; and on a nearer exam- 

 ination by the more deeply cut or serrated leaves ; the broadly 

 ovate and pointed sepals, and in the very turgid subglobose lobes 

 of the capsule. 



11. V. Buxlaumii, (Ten.) Buxbaum's Speedwell; called after a 

 botanist of that name. Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2769. St. 56, 5. 

 Reich. Icones, 430, 431. 



