158 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
In fields, damp pastures, waste places, and by roadsides, &c. 
Very common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 
Stems 3 inches to 1 foot high. Leaves ^ to f inch long. Flowers 
i inch across ; capsule J inch long, broader than long, rounded at 
the base. Plant dull-green, with the leaves nearly glabrous. 
Perennial Smooth Speedwell. 
Sub-Species II.— Veronica humifusa. Dicks. 
Plate DCCCCLXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXVIII. Fig. 4 1 
Dicks, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. II. p. 288. 
V. serpyllifolia, ft humifusa, Bab. Man. Brit. Eot. ed. v. p. 249. 
V. serpyllifolia, ft alpina, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 305. 
V. serpyllifolia, var. borealis, Last. Reich. JU. I.e. p. 44? 
Stems branched at the base, and a little way above it, procum- 
bent throughout. Leaves broadly-oval or roundish, often entire 
or merely repand. Ptaceme few-flowered, short, not occupying 
more than a fourth of the stem when in fruit. Rachis and pedi- 
cels clothed with jointed gland-tipped hairs. Corolla blue, with 
darker lines. Capsule longer than the sepals, densely ciliated with 
gland-tipped hairs, the notch between the segments rather shallow. 
In oozy places on mountains. Common in the Scotch High- 
lands ; also in North Wales, and Northumberland. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
This plant is usually considered as a mere variety of V. serpylli- 
folia, but it appears to be permanently distinct from the common 
lowland form of that plant. Mr. H. C. Watson cultivated it for many 
years in his garden, and it continued quite distinct, though, unfor- 
tunately, he was never able to raise it from seed. I had living plants 
sent from Braemar by Mr. Charles Bailey, of Manchester, which in 
the succeeding season retained all their characters, but perished in 
the dry weather of summer, which did not affect the ordinary form 
of V. serpyllifolia. The plant has so much the aspect of V. alpina, 
that it was mistaken for it by Lightfoot, and has been by several other 
botanists. The stems are prostrate, 2 to 6 inches long, the branches 
rooting at the nodes. The leaves are broad, more nearly entire, and 
more shining than in V. cu-scrpyllifolia ; the flowers fewer, larger, 
bright-blue, on longer pedicels ; the sepals broader and shorter; the 
capsule is longer in proportion to the sepals, more deeply notched, 
and much more hairy. 
Prostrate Smooth Sj)eedtccll. 
