SCROFIIULARIACE.X. 157 
nearly equalling the calyx, bluish-lilac or nearly white. Capsule 
1 inch long, with a very shallow notch. Seeds very numerous, 
minute. Plant dull-green, quite glabrous. 
I am indebted to Dr. Samuel Ilea of Belfast for fresh speci- 
mens. 
Annual Smooth Speedwell. 
French, Veronigue Yoyageuse. German, Fremder Ehrenpreis. 
SPECIES IX.— VERONICA SE RP YLLIFOLI A. Linn. 
Plates DCCCCLXXVIII. DCCCCLXX 
Perennial. Stem rather stifF, decumbent and rooting at the 
base and then erect, or wholly decumbent, branched chiefly at the 
base ; branches curved, ascending or prostrate. Leaves oval, or 
roundish oval, entire or repand, obtuse; the lower ones stalked; 
the upper sessile or subsessile. Bracts strapshaped-oblanceolate, 
alternate. Flowers in a spikelike raceme, at length rather lax. 
Pedicels erect, shorter than the bracts, equalling or exceeding the 
calyx. Sepals oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse, sub-glabrous, 
ciliated with gland-tipped hairs. Capsule about as long as the 
calyx, inversely semicircular-deltoid, obcordate, much compressed, 
without prominent veins, sub-glabrous or more or less clothed 
with gland-tipped hairs ; lobes scarcely divaricate, separated by a 
shallow notch. Style very long, equalling the capsule in length. 
Seeds slightly excavated on the inner face. Plant glabrous, except 
the stem and pedicels, which are more or less thickly clothed 
with hairs; those on the upper part sometimes gland-tipped. 
Sub Species I.— Veronica eu-serpyllifolia. 
Plate DCCCCLXXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXVIII. Figs. 2, 3 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 823. 
V. sernyllifolia, var. o, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 219. Hook. &, Am. Brit. Fl. 
ed. viii. p. 3U-~>. 
Stems branched at the very base, where they are decumbent, 
then erect. Leaves oval, generally repand-crenate. Raceme many- 
flowered, at length occupying half the stem or more. Bracts and 
pedicels with short hairs generally not gland-tipped. Corolla 
nearly white, with bluish-lilac lines. Capsule rather shorter than 
the sepals, sub-glabrous, with a few gland- tipped hairs at the apex, 
the notch between the segments very shallow. 
