156 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stem 1 incli to a foot high, simple in small specimens, branched 
often from the very base in luxuriant ones ; in the latter case the 
branches decumbent at the base. Leaves J to f inch long. 
Racemes lengthening in flower until they occupy about § of the 
stem. Corolla minute, much shorter than the calyx, pale-blue, 
white in the centre. Capsule about as broad as long, ^ inch either 
way. Plant yellowish-green, pubescent. 
"V. arvensis is closely allied to V. verna, and indeed small speci- 
mens of the former have frequently been mistaken for the latter ; 
but in V. arvensis the leaves are never cut into lobes ; the pubescence 
of the stem is of longer and more distinctly-jointed hairs, and the 
fruiting raceme is more elongated and lax ; the pedicels are con- 
siderably shorter ; the capsule narrower, and with the lobes less 
divaricate. 
Wall Speedwell. 
French, Veronique des Champs. German, Feld Ehrenpreis. 
SPECIES VIII.— V ERONICA PEREGRIN A, Livn. 
Plate DCCCCLXXVII. 
Feich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXIX. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2512. 
Annual. Stem rather stiff, erect or ascending, generallybranched; 
branches ascending. Leaves oblanceolate ; the lower ones sub- 
petiolate ; the upper ones sessile or subsessile ; all obtuse, entire 
or remotely serrate. Bracts alternate, strapshaped-oblanceolate. 
J 1 lowers in a spikelike raceme, at length lax. Peduncles erect, 
much shorter than the bracts and calyx. Sepals strapshaped, sub- 
obtuse, glabrous. Capsule half as long as the calyx, inversely 
deltoid, obcordate, much shorter than the calyx, glabrous ; lobes 
much compressed, scarcely divaricate, separated by a very shallow 
indistinct notch. Style very short, protruding beyond the notch of 
the capsule. Seeds nearly flat on the inner face. Plant glabrous. 
A weed in gardens and cultivated ground. Perth, Scotland ; 
Belfast, Londonderry, and Strabane, Ireland; also in Jersey. First 
noticed in 1836, at Barnescourt, Strabane. A native of North and 
South America, but naturalized in Europe. 
[Scotland, Ireland.] Annual. Spring to Autumn. 
Steins 3 to 8 inches high, with the branches less spreading than 
in any of the preceding species. Leaves •£- to 1 inch long, some- 
what fleshy, passing gradually into the bracts; uppermost bracts 
very narrow, much exceeding the flowers. Corolla minute, not 
