SCROPIIULATlIACR.i:. 1G9 
In ditches, and on the margins of ponds and slow streams. 
Rather scarce, but generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or Perennial. 
Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves 2 to 5 inches long, somewhat 
like those of Epilobium obscurum or the glabrous form of E. hir- 
sutism. Racemes 3 inches to 1 foot long. Flowers j inch across, 
whitish or lilac with darker lines. Capsule about J inch long, 
swollen below. Plant green, somewhat succulent, shining, turning 
blackish in drying. 
The form with the inflorescence clothed with gland-tipped hairs 
is V. anairalliforinis of Boreau. 
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Water Speedwell. 
French, Veronique Mouron d'Eau. German, Wasser Ehrenpreis. 
SPECIES XVIII.— V ERONICA BECCABUNGA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXC. 
Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 597. 
Stem succulent, stout, hollow, decumbent and rooting at the 
base, then ascending, paniculately - branched, or simple in small 
specimens ; branches spreading. Leaves very shortly stalked, oval 
or oblong-oval, rounded at both ends, nearly entire and callously- 
denticulate or crenate-serrate or serrate. Flowers rather numerous, 
in lax axillary racemes elongating slightly in fruit. Peduncles 
opposite, a little longer than the leaves ; pedicels longer than the 
calyx, and usually longer than the bracts, more rarely equal or 
shorter than the bracts, at length spreading. Sepals 4, elliptical- 
ovate, acute, glabrous. Capsule nearly as long as the calyx, 
orbicular, slightly compressed, emarginate, with indistinct elevated 
veins, glabrous, surrounded by a border without projecting points ; 
lobes contiguous, separated by a slight notch and a deep-impressed 
line at the junction of the carpels. Style about three-fourths of 
the length of the capsule. Plant glabrous. 
On the margins of brooks, ditches, ponds, &c. Very common, 
and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring 
to Autumn. 
Stem 9 inches to 3 feet long, decumbent, except at the 
extremity. Leaves 1 to 3 inches long, the petiole distinct, but 
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