V ERONICA ARVENSIS. WALL SPEEDWELL. 
VERONICA hinnai Gen. PI. Diandria Monogynia. 
Cor. limbo 4-partito, lacinia infima angufliore. Capfula bilocularis. 
Rati Syn.Gen. 18. Herb.® fructu sicco singulari flor£ monopetalo. 
VERONICA arvenfis floribus folitariis, foliis cordatis incifis pedunculo longioribus, hin. Syjl. Vegetak 
p. 57. Sp. Pl. p. 18. 
VERONICA caule eredto, foliis ovatis, fubhirfutis, dentatis ; petiolis breviflimis. Haller. hifi.helv. n. 548. 
VERONICA arvenfis. Scopoli. Flor. Carniol. p. 1 8. 
ALSINE veronicas foliis, flofculis cauliculis adhaerentibus. Bauhin. Pin. 250. 
ALSINE foliis Veronicas. Gerard, emac. 613. 
ALSINE foliis fubrotundis Veronicas. Parhinfon. 762. 
VERONICA flofculis Angularibus cauliculis adherentibus. Rati Syn. p. 2 79, Speedwell Chickweed. 
Oeder FI. Dan. t. 515. 
Hudfon FI. Angi. 6 . ed. 2. 6. 
Lightfoot. FI. Scot. p. 75. 
RADIX annua, fibrofa. 
CAULIS palmaris, aut dodrantalis, ere&us, plerum- 
que ramofus, fubinde fimplex, (rami alter- 
natim oppofiti, adfcen dentes,) teres, purpuraf- 
cens, undique hir fu tus. 
FOLIA inferiora petiolata, hirfuta, fubcordata, inferne 
faspe purpurea, obtufa, planiufcula, incifa, 
quinquenervia, fuperiora feffilia, fubtortuofa. 
FLORES pedunculis breviflimis infidentes, fpicati, 
bra£tae& lanceolate fuffulti. 
¥ ROOT annual and fibrous. 
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f STALK upright, from three to nine inches in height, 
I generally branched, now and then fimple, 
(the branches alternately oppofite and afcend- 
I hig,) round, purplifh, and hirfute on every 
I fide. 
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I LEAVES on the bottom of the ftalk Handing on foot- 
f ftalks, hirfute, fomewhat heart-fhaped, often 
I purple on the under fide, obtufe, flattifli, 
notched on the edges, having five ribs, the 
: : upper ones feffile, and fomewhat twilled. 
FLOWERS fitting on very Ihort foot-llalks, growing 
in a fpike, fupported by a lanceolate floral- 
leaf 
CALYX : Periantiiium quadripartitum, laciniis 
ovato-lanceolatis, hirfutulis, hirfutie glandu- 
lofa, duobus inferioribus duplo fere majoribus 
et longioribus, Jig. 1 . , 
COROLLA monopetala, fubrotata, coerulea, leyiflimo 
taftu decidua, tubus breviflimus, albus, lim- 
bus quadripartitus, laciniis ovatis, infima an- 
gulliore, fg. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta duo, alba, medio crafliora, 
corolla dimidio breviora : Anther® fubcor- 
datte, flavefcentes, fg. 3. 
• ” * umucu 111 IU luur 
fegments, which are oval, lanceolate, and 
hairy ; (the hairs terminated with glands ;) 
the two lowermoll almoll twice as large and 
long as the others, fg. 1 . 
COROLLA monopetalous, and fomewhat wheel- Ihaped, 
of a blue colour, falling off on the lead touch ; 
the tube very fhort and white ; the limb deep- 
ly divided into four fegments, which are oval, 
the lower one narroweft, fg. 2. 
STAMINA : two white Filaments thickeft in the 
middle, half the length of the corolla : An- 
ther® fomewhat heart-fhaped, and yellowifh, 
{ fg- 3 - 
PiSTILLUM : Germen obcordatum, compreflum, y PISTILLUM: Germen inverfely heart-fhaped, flat- 
vifcofum, bafi glandula cindlo : Stylus bre- | tened, and vifcous, furrounded at bottom by 
viflimus, alhus, redlus : Stigma craflum fub- | a gland : Style very fhort, white, and ftrait; 
I Stigma thick, with an appearance of being 
truncatum, fg. 4. 
cut off, fg. 4. 
PER 1 CARPIUM: Capsula obcordata, compreffi, J SEED-VESSEL a heart-lhaped flattened Capsule, 
palude mica, fig. 5, contmens. , of a pale brown colour,^-. S, containing of 
SEMINA circiter 14 ovata, compreffa, medio deprefl'a, | SEEDS about fourteen, which are oval and flat, with 
fg' 6 * 7 * % a depreffion in the middle, fg. 6, 7. 
AS the Veronica agreflis grows chiefly in gardens and cultivated ground, fo this fpecies, which is nearly 
allied to it, 15 mofl commonly found on walls, alfo in fallow fields, and on the borders of dry paflures. 
It flowers in April, and the feeds ripen in May. 
The old botanifts, inattentive to the parts of frudification, diftinguifhed this and fome other fpecies of Veronica 
by the general name of Affine. r * 
Students are apt, as we have before obferved, to confound it with the agrejlis, from which it differs in manv 
refpeds : the ftalk m particular is upright ; the flowers are neatly feffile ; the feed-veflels are much finaller and 
whennripe form a lpike. * 
It varies in fize from one to fix or eight inches : and on walls, the bottom leaves are frequently obferved 
to be purple. * J & 
