1GS ENGLISH BOTANY. 
are prostrate, and creep amongst the moss and weeds among 
which the plant grows. Stem 4> inches to 2 feet high, slender, 
hnaking readily at the nodes. Leaves 1 to 2^ inches long, 
variable in breadth, from \ to \ inch. Racemes 1 to 6 inches 
long, spreading or refiexed in fruit, when the pedicels also are 
divaricate. Corolla about J inch across, white, generally with pink 
lines. Capsule J inch long, very similar to that of V. montana, 
but not so deeply notched at the base, and much more deeply so 
at the apex, and destitute of the protuberances on the border. 
Plant usually glabrous, rather dull-green and slightly shining, but 
often more or less pubescent, sometimes wholly clothed with 
jointed hairs, in which case it has been distinguished as a species 
under the name V. parmularia, by Turpin and Poiteau, in their 
" Flore Parisienne ;" nevertheless it scarcely deserves even the 
name of a variety, the hairiness apparently depending on situation, 
as it is usually in dry places that the pubescent form occurs. 
Plant turning blackish in drying. 
Marsh Speedwell. 
French, Veronique a Ecusson. German, Schilclfruchtiger Ehrenpreis. 
SPECIES XVII.— V ERONICA ANAGALLIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCLXXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCII. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 59G. 
Stem succulent, very stout, hollow, erect, or sometimes slightly 
decumbent at the base, paniculately branched or simple in small 
specimens, branches curving upwards. Leaves sessile, semi-am- 
plexicaul, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, subcordate, acute, 
nearly entire and callously denticulate or serrate-denticulate. 
Flowers very numerous, in lax axillary racemes elongating much 
in fruit. Peduncles opposite, much longer than the leaves ; pedi- 
cels longer than the calyx, and usually exceeding the bracts, more 
rarely equal to or shorter than the bracts (rarely twice as long), 
at length spreading. Sepals 4, elliptical, acute, glabrous or with 
a few gland-tipped hairs. Capsule about two-thirds the length of 
the calyx or equalling it, orbicular, slightly compressed, eniargi- 
nate, without elevated veins, surrounded by a border without pro- 
jecting points; lobes contiguous, separated by a slight notch and 
a deep impressed line at the junction of the carpels. Style about 
hall' the length of the capsule. Plant glabrous, or with the 
peduncles, pedicels, and sepals sparingly clothed with short gland- 
tipped hairs. 
