152 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
-J to f inch long, with more numerous, more shallow, and blunter 
teeth; peduncles considerably shorter; sepals narrower, more 
equal in size, blunter, less conspicuously veined ; corolla usually 
smaller, paler blue, frequently nearly white with only a few blue or 
lilac stripes, the lowest lobe always white ; the capsule with the 
lobes separated by a narrow acute sinus, the two inner apical 
boundaries of the lobes nearly straight, and parallel for some little 
distance, the outer boundary semicircular, with a keel running 
round the whole of the outside; the surface with rather promi- 
nent elevated veins, and sparingly clothed (especially along the 
keel) with short gland-tipped hairs. Plant yellower-green than 
V. polita. 
Green J?rocumbent Speedwell. 
French, Veronique Rustique. German, Acker Ehrenprels. 
SPECIES IV— VERONICA BUXBAUMIL Ten. 
Plate DCCCCLXXIII. 
Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1733. 
V. Persica, " Pair." Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 598. Reich, fd. 1. c. 
Stem weak, branched from the "base ; branches procumbent or 
ascending at the apex. Leaves all shortly stalked, broadly-ovate 
or roundish-ovate, subcordate or abrupt at the base, coarsely- 
serrate or crenate-scrrate, with to 13 deep generally rather acute 
teeth. Bracts like the leaves. Flowers racemose. Peduncles two 
to four times as long as the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 
glabrous, ciliated with rather long incurved hairs (which are not 
gland- tipped), distinctly 5- to 7-ribbed and netted-veined in fruit. 
Capsule of 2 rhomboidal-ovoid much compressed strongly-keeled 
divaricate lobes, with a network of very prominent veins, sub- 
glabrous, except that they are sparingly clothed with gland-tipped 
hairs. Style very long, projecting much beyond the notch of 
the capsule. Seeds 5 to 8 in each cell of the capsule. Plant 
pubescent, with long jointed but not gland-tipped hairs. 
In cultivated fields. Common, and generally distributed in 
England, Ireland, and the South of Scotland, extending as far 
Korth as Moray. A native of Eastern Europe and Central Asia; 
now thoroughly naturalized in Britain, and becoming each year 
more abundant. 
[England, Scotland, Ireland.] Annual. Spring 
to Autumn. 
