liS ENGLISH BOTANY. 
A delicate plant, with threadlike stems rooting at the nodes, 
from which are produced leaves 5 to 1 inch across, on petioles from 
£ to 3 inches long. Peduncles generally under J inch. Calyx- 
segments lanceolate. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, with 
5 lobes, two of them smaller and less reflexed than the other three, 
yellowish with a dull-red transverse hand, scarcely perceptible in 
the 2 smaller segments. Capsule sub-didymous. Plant yellowish- 
green, with the stems, peduncles, pedicels, sepals, and veins of 
the leaves, with rather long jointed white hairs. 
I am indebted to Mr. Charles Bailey for fresh specimens from 
Cornwall. n . 7 ^ r , 
Cornish Jloneyicort. 
French, Sibtkorpie d" Europe. 
Tribe VII.— VERONICE^]. 
Corolla rotate, slightly irregular ; under lip of the corolla 
covering the upper in the bud. Stamens 2. Inflorescence simple, 
indefinite. Leaves (or at least the lower ones) opposite. 
GENUS IX.— V ERONICA. Tournef. 
Calyx 4- (rarely 5- or 3-) partite. Corolla rotate or subrotate- 
funnelshaped or salvershaped ; tube very short or cylindrical ; limb 
spreading or slightly concave, 4-clei't, rarely 5-cleft, with the lateral 
segments generally narrower than the upper one, and the lowest 
one narrowest of all. Stamens 2, exserted, inserted in the tube of 
the corolla, opposite the lateral segments of the corolla ; anthers 
2-celled, not awned. Stigma sub-capitate, entire. Capsule more or 
less compressed, 2 celled, generally obcordate or notched at the 
apex, furrowed on each face, loculicidally 2-valved, or these 2 
valves again splitting septicidally. Seeds commonly numerous, 
rarely only 2 in each cell. 
Plants of various habit, with the lower (or all) leaves opposite. 
Flowers rather small, blue, white, or pink, in terminal or axillary 
racemes. 
The Dame of this genus of plants is said to have been given to it in honour of the 
It inish saint of tliat name. Among other conjectures as to the origin of the name, is 
<ui.- that supposes it to be compounded of the Greek words (pspw (phero), I bring, and 
rii.ii (nike), victory, alluding to its supposed efficacy in subduing diseases. 
Section I.— ALSINOIDES. Koch. 
Annuals. Elowers in terminal racemes. Pedicels spreading- 
recurved or rellcxed in fruit, solitary in the axils of leaves or 
