Veronica heder/efolia. Ivy -leaved Speedwell. 
VERONICA Linncei Gen. PI. Diandria Monogynia. 
Cor. Limbo 4-partito, lacinia infima anguftiore. Capfula bilocularJk 
Rail Syn. Gen. 1 8. Herba: fructu sicco singulari flore monopet alo. 
VERONICA hederafolidy floribus folitariis, foliis cordatis planis quinquelobis. Lift. Syjt. Vegelab. p. 58» 
Spec. Plant, p. 1 9. Flor. Suecic. p. 7. 
VERONICA caule ^procumbente ; foliis lobatis, petiolis paucifloris. Haller. Hjft. Helv. n. 550. 
VERONICA hederafolia. Scopoli FI. Carniol. p. 21. 
ALSINE Hederulas folio. Bauhin. Pin. 250. 
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ALSINE Hederuke folio minor. Parkinfon. 760. 
ALSINE hederacea. Ger. emac. 616. 
VERONICA flofculis Angularibus, Hederula; folio, Morfus Gallina; minor didta. Ivy-leaved Speedwell, 
or fmall Henbit, Rati Syn. p. 280. 
Hudfon. FI. Angi. p. 6. 
Lighfoot. FI. Scot. p. 76. 
RADIX annua, parva, fibrofa. 
CAULIS decumbens, fubramoftrt, feres, crafliufculus, 
tener, pilis mollibus veftitus, viticulis alfines 
inftar geniculatus. 
FOLIA alterna, petiolata, fubcordata, trilobata aut 
quinquelobata, fubcarnofa, utrinque hirfuta, 
quinquenervia. 
PEDUNCULI uniflori, axillares, demum reflexi. 
CALYX: Periantjiium tetraphyllum, foliolis mag- 
nis, cordatis, acutis, ciliatis, fig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata, pallide coerulea, la- 
ciniis ovatis, infima anguftiore, fig. 2, calyce 
brevioribus ; Faux intus villofa, fig. 3. 
STAMINA : Filamenta duo, alba : Anthera: 
coerulefcentes, fig. 4, 5, 6. 
PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum : Stylus fili- 
formis, albus : Stigma crafliim, album, fig. 7. 
PERICARPIUM: Capsula magna, obcordata, fub- 
rotunda, bilocularis, fig. 8 
SEMINA duo in fingulo loculamento, magna, nedla- 
rio Cypripedii haud diffimilia, pallide fufca, 
intus concava, umbilicata,^. 9, 10, 11. 
t ROOT annual, fmall, and fibrous. 
t 
y STALK decumbent, fomewhat branched, round, 
I thickifti, tender, covered with foft hairs, and 
ftringy withinfide like Chickweed. 
LEAVES alternate, ftanding on foot-ftalks, fomewhat 
heart-fhaped, with three or five lobes, a little 
flefhy, and hirfute on each fide. 
FLOWER-STALKS, each fupporting one flower, 
proceeding from the bofoms of the leaves, fi- 
nally bending downward. 
CALYX: a P erianthium of four leaves, which are 
large, heart-ftiaped, pointed, and edged with 
hairs, fig. 1 . 
COROLLA, of one Petal, wheel-fhaped, pale blue, 
the fegments oval, the lower one narroweft, 
fig. 2, fhorter than the calyx ; the Mouth 
villous within, fig. 3. 
STAMINA: two white Filaments: Antheras 
blueifh, fig. 4, 5, 6. 
PISTILLUM: Germen roundilh : Style thread- 
ftiaped and white : Stigma thick and white, 
fig ■ 7- 
SEED-VESSELL : a Capsule, large, fomewhat in- 
verfely heart-fhaped, roundilh, with two ca- 
vities, fig. 8. 
I SEEDS two in each cavity, large, in form not unlike 
the Nedlary of the Ladies Slipper, of a pale 
I brown, hollow within, with a navel- like ap- 
I pearance, externally convex, and grooved or 
$ notched, fig. 9, io, 11. 
THE Veronica hederafolia appears to be a very general plant throughout Europe. 
Of our Englifh Speedwells , it has the greateft affinity to the Veronica agrefiis, as well in its habit and 
place of growth, as in the peculiar, formation of its feed-veflells and feeds : but although its feed-veflells are 
nearly of the fame fize, yet its feeds are confiderably larger : in the one we fcarce ever obierve more than four 
and often but two ; in the other we generally find eight or more ; hence we are able to account for the remarkable 
large feed-leaves which occur in this fpecies. Tfa hederafolia differs alfo from the agrefiis in feveral other refpeds- 
the leaves are more thinly placed on the ftalks, aim have feldom more than two or four notches in them • and the 
flowers are of a very pale blue colour. 
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Like the agrefiis it grows in gardens and corn-fields, particularly in the latter, when the foil is light in great 
abundance; and flowers in April. Its feeds are ripe the latter end of May. * 6 ’ ° 
T'he farmer may confider it as an harmlefs annual. Its virtues, if any, remain as yet undifcovered. 
