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r H E BRITISH HERBAL 
5. Ivy-Icavcd Speedwell. 
Veronica bcdcrie folio. 
The root is a clufter of rmall fibres. 
The liril leaves are roundilh, but indented into 
tlirce, and fomecimes more cfivifions : they rife 
fix or eight together, and have fliort footftalks. 
The lUiks ars numerous, weak, and iix or 
eight inches high. 
The leaves ftand akernatcly on them, and 
have footftalks; they are divided deeply into 
three parts, and in fome degree refemble the 
leaves of ivy in miniature : their colour is a pale 
green, and they are hairy. 
The flowers ftand fingly on fiiort footftalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves-, and they 
are fmall and bluiili. 
The feed-veftcls follow, and are heart- faHiIon- 
ed : the feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is common in corn-fields and in garden bor- 
ders ; and flowers in April, 
C. Bauhine calls it Alfiyie hederule folio. Ray, 
Veronica, flofcilUs fingularibtis hsderulds folio. In 
Englifti we call it ^mall hcnhit^ or Ivy-kaved 
chickweed. 
6. Chickweed-fpeedwell v.'ith footftalks. 
^eronira floribus fingularihus in ohlcngis pedicidis. 
The root is long, flender, and edged with 
many fibres. 
The fir^leaves are fliort and broad. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak ; feme trail 
upon the ground, and fome ftand eredl, and they 
are five inches high. 
The leaves ftand alternate, and they have 
fliort footftalks : they aje broad, ftiort, ferraced, 
and ftiarp-pointed, but of a dead green. 
The flowers ftand fingly on footftalks rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, and they are 
fmall, and blue ; fometimes, but more feldom, 
■white. 
The feed-veflcl is large, and heart-faftiioned, 
and is flatted at the top. 
Jt is common on walls and in dry places, and 
flowers early in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls if jll/ine chaniadry folia fiofculis 
psdiculis cbiongis inftdenlibus. 
•j. Chickweed-fpeedwell, without footftalks. 
Veronica floribus fingularibus caulihiis adherentibus. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of fibres. 
The flalk is round, weak, and very much 
branched. 
The leaves ftand in pairs without footftalks, 
and are fliort and broad, of a pale green, fiightly 
ferrated at the edges, and a little hairy. 
The flowers ftand in a long feries on the tops of 
the ftatks and branches, and are fmall and blue, 
ftriated on the infide, and ufually pale : thefe 
have no footftalks, but grow to the ftalk ; and 
under thefe there grow alternately leaves of a 
different form from thofe on the reft of the plant: 
they arc ftiort, oval, and not at all indented, and 
they fomewhat refemble the leaves of garden- 
thyme. 7 
The feed -veflel is flat and heart-faftiioned. 
It is common on walls and in dry places, where 
it grows from two to five inches in height., It 
flowers in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it yllftne foliis verc?iica, foliis et 
flofcidis caidibus adherentibus. Others, Veronica 
foliis oppofuis floribus feffilibus. 
8, Fingered-lcaved fpeedwell. 
Veronica foliis alternis digitalis. 
The root is long, flender, and furniPaed with 
a great number of fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, thick, of a 
pale green, partly ercft, and in part procum- 
bent, and three or four inches in heiglit. 
The leaves are numerous, and ftand irregukir- 
ly : they differ from thofe of all the other fpecies 
in fhape, being divided in a fingered manner, fame 
into three, and others into five parts. Thofe to- 
ward the bottom of the ftalk are divided into five 
parts, thefe are feparated down to the bafe in 
the manner of fingers; and the three middle di- 
vifions are longer, the two outfide ones ihorter ; 
they are all narrow and pointed : the leaves on 
the upper part of the ftalks are divided only into 
three parts each, and thefe, of the fame form v/ith 
the others : the lower leaves often fall oft' as the 
plant grows up ; and the others only, or at leaft 
principally, remaining and appearing as each 
compofed of three feparate leaves, have occa- 
fioned many to call it trifoliate fpeed.-jjcll. 
The flowers are large and purple : they ftjnd on 
fingle footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
leaves, and make a pretty appearance. 
The feed-vefl'el is large, flat, and heart-fa- 
fliioned, and contains many fmall feeds. 
It is found in fome of our northern counties 
in barren paftures and in gravel-pits ; and flowers 
in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Veronica triphyllos aerulea. 
Lobel, Jlfme parva rc£la folio alftnes hedsracea 
riiia ?mda divifo. Others Alfive rc£fa. 
9. Bugle-leaved Speedwell. 
J'eronica hugid^ folio fubhirfuto. 
The root is long, flender, and full of fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are large and 
oblong ; they have fliort footftalks, and grow- 
in a tuft, eight, ten, or more together. 
Among thefe rife the footftalks, which are nu- 
merous, round, and fomewhat hairy, and ei^hc 
or ten inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs at diflances, and are, 
like thofe from the root, oblong, broad, and 
placed on fhort footllalks; they are crenated at 
the edges, and obtufe at the end. 
The flowers are large and blue: they ftand in 
long Ipikes, fometimes one, fometimes three or 
more on the plant, according to its degree of 
nourifhment. 
The feed-vefl'els are heart-fafhioned and flatted. 
It is a native of Wales, and flowers in July. 
It is defcribed in the third edition of Ray's 
Synopfis under the name of Veronica fpicata 
I Cambrohritannica bugitU fubhirfuto folio. 
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