By Thomas Bruges Flower, Fsq. 



SO 



Locality. In cultivated fields, gardens, and waste ground, cer- 

 tainly introduced. A. M. April, September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 

 4. 5. 



Distributed throughout all the Districts, probably by the sowing 

 of clover seeds, or by other means, but not frequent. This species, 

 which is of Asiatic and South-eastern European origin, is easily 

 recognized by its pale green leaves, by the long, sleDder, and nearly 

 straight pedicles, the ovate-lanceolate sepals, the divaricate lobes 

 of the capsule, which are compressed upwards, and sharply carinate, 

 and the large blue corolla, rivalling in size and beauty that of 

 V. chamcedrys. 



12. V. hederifolia, (Linn.) Ivy-leaved Speedwell. Engl. Bot. I. 

 784. 



Locality. Waste and cultivated ground. A. Fl. April, June. 

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



Recorded in all tlie Districts. Stems much branched from the 

 very base. Leaves numerous, pale dull green ; but the chief dis- 

 tinction is in the calyx, the divisions of which are broadly heart- 

 shaped, not narrowed at the base. Corolla and capsule nearly those 

 of the V. agrestis. This is quite a spring plant and seldom to be 

 found after the month of June. Our tillage-lands are often covered 

 with the Ivy-leaved Speedwell in the spring and earlier summer 

 months. 



ORDER. LABIAT2E. (JUSS.) 



So named from Labium, (Lat.) a lip ; in allusion to the two- 

 lipped corolla. This is one of the most natural and distinctly 

 marked of all the orders. It comprises the Didyna'mia Gymnospermia 

 of Linnaeus, as the order Scrophulariacea does the Didynamia 

 Angiospermia. The opposite leaves, monopetalous corolla, 2 or 4 

 stamens, and the free 4-lobed ovarium, are characters so easily 

 observed, and so constantly accompanying the general habit of 

 the whole series, that from the time of Linnaeus to the present 

 day, but two or three genera have been improperly associated with, 

 or separated from it. 



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