250 
57. SCEOPHTTLAEIACE^. 58. LABIATJE. 
1., and dark-blue flowers. — Sandy fields. Bury and Mildenhall, 
Suff. York. A. IV. E. 
•••* Flowers axillary, solitary ; seeds concave. St. prostrate. 
14. V. affi'es'tts (L.) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-serrate, 
Sep. oval, stam. inserted at the very bottom of the cor., caps, of 
2 turgid keeled lobes, seeds about G in a cell. — E. B. S. 2603. 
St. 58. 14. It. I. £ 440.— Caps, hairy all over, or only ciliate on 
the keel ; hairs all straight and glandular. L. usually exceeding 
the peduncles. Lower cor.-lip white. — [V. opaca (t"ries) with 
spathulate sep., fewer seeds, hairs on caps, incurved short with 
a few longer and glandular, stam. inserted in the throat of cor., 
is probably Biitish.] — Fields and waste places. A. IT. — IX. 
15. V. poUta (Fries) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise-ser- 
rat«, Sep. broadly ovate acute, stam. inserted at the very bottom 
of the cor., caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 8 — 12 in a cell. — E. B. 
783. 5^.58.16. ^.Z.f 404,405.— Caps, with short dense glandless 
hairs and other shorter glandular ones, rarely glabrous. L. 
usually falling short of the pedimcles. Fl. wholly blue. — Cor. 
sometimes as large as that ot V. Buxhaumii. — Fields and waste 
places. A. TV. — IX. Gray Field Speedwell. E. S. I. 
*16. V. Buxhaum'ii (Ten.) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate incise- 
serrate, sep. lanceolate acute, stam. from the bottom of the cor., 
caps, of 2 divaricate lobes compressed tqncards and sharply 
heeled, seeds about 8 in a ceU.— ^. B. S. 2769. St. 56. 5. R. I. 
430, 431.— St. long. L. falling short of the pedimcles. Fl. 
twice the size of those of the preceding, as large as those of V. 
aiamccdrys, blue.— Fields. A. R".— IX. E. S. I. 
17. V. hederifolia (L.) ; I. with 6 — 7 larye toothlike lobes all 
stalked, sep. cordate ciliate, caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 2 in 
each cell.— B. 784. St. 56. 6.— Fl. pale blue.— Fields and 
banks. A. FV. — VI. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. E. S. I. 
\_Acan'thiis mol'lis, belonging to the Order Acanthaceee, has 
been uitroduced by unknown agency into the Isle of St. Agnes, 
Scilly {A. N. H. ser. 2. viii. 505 ) ; but, having very slender claims 
to be included in the British Flora, it is not described here.] 
Cal. tubular, regidar or 2-lipped, persistent. Cor. 2-lipped, 
upper lip entire or bifid, lower 3-fid. Stam. 4, dulynamous, 
rarely 2. Ovary free, 4-lobcd. Stylo 1, from the base of the 
lobes ; stigma bifid. Fr. in 1 — 4 small nutlike portions. — Fl. 
E. S. I. 
Order LVIII. LABIAT.^. 
