BXANDRXA. MONOGYNIA. Veronica- 
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Fl. Dan. 256. 
C. alpina fi. Sm. C. intermedia. Ehrh. Herb. 101.—Growing about Leeds. 
Mr. Woodward. (Near Stockport. Mr. W. Christy. In shady groves, 
near Matlock Bath. Sir J. E. Smith. Abundant in the Highland woods. 
Greville. E.) 
VERONFCA* Bloss. border four-cleft; (wheel-shaped, E.); 
the lower segment narrowest : caps, two-celled ; notched 
at the end. 
(1) Flowers in spikes. 
V. spica'ta. Spike terminal; leaves opposite, blunt, scolloped: stem 
ascending ; undivided. Linn. Spike conical: leaves spear- 
shaped : stamens much longer than the blossom. 
E. Bot. 2 — Fl. Dan. 52 — Kniph. 4 ; — Clus. i. 347. 3 — Loh. Obs. 250. 3 - Ger. 
Em. 627. 4— VaiU. 33. 4— J. B. iii. 282; 3 and 4— H. Ox. iii. 22. 4. 
{Plant from four to eight inches high. Stem, ascending, undivided. E.) 
Spikes sometimes more than one on a root. Reich. Leaves narrower in 
proportion to their length and more pointed than in the next species. 
Bloss blue. Anthers blue. {Leaves sometimes strap-shaped, and very 
entire. Woodw. E.) 
Upright Spiked Speedwell. Smallest Fluellin. Mountainous moist 
pastures. Cavenham Heath, near Bury, Suffolk, and near Penny Bridge, 
Lancashire. Woodward. (On the wall of St. John’s College. Rev. R. 
Relb an. Side of Llandidno Rocks, Carnarvonshire; and above the lead- 
mines, near Prestatyn, Flintshire; and on the upper part of Cefn Rocks, 
above the cave, near St. Asaph. Mr. Griffith. About Penzance. E.) 
P. June. 
V. hy'brida. Spikes terminal, cylindrical; leaves opposite, bluntly ser* 
rated, rough, spear-egg-shaped. (Stem upright, not perfectly 
simple. E.) 
{E.Boi. 673. E.)— Ray 11. 
(Larger and rather more hairy, especially about the calyx, than the preced¬ 
ing, having usually one or two lateral spikes, or rudiments of them. 
Lower leaves nearly ovate. Sm. E.) Leaf-stalks bordered. Bloss. blue, 
the tubular part hirsute within. Leaves thick and fleshy, rough with 
white short hairs, which grow out of small prominent glands. 
Welsh Speedwell. Bugle-leaved Speedwell. On Craig Wreiddin, 
Montgomeryshire. Umpherhead, a steep rock at Cartmell Wells, plenti¬ 
ful. Mr. Hall. (Near Penny Bridge, Low Furness, Lancashire. Mr. 
Woodward. Hyssva Bengam and Trigyfylchi Rocks, near the Glyder, 
Carnarvonshire. Evans. St. Vincent’s Rocks, near the Giant’s Cave, 
Bristol. Dyer. Spoonbed Hill, Painswick, beyond the encampment, 
beside the Cheltenham road. Mr. O. Roberts. E.) P. July. 
V. ARVEN'sis. (Spike terminal: leaves egg-shaped, sessile, deeply ser¬ 
rated: floral-leaves spear-shaped, longer than the flowers, en¬ 
tire. E.) 
* (From the Romish saint of that name, but how connected is not obvious. Among 
various conjectures as to the origin of this name, the most rational seems to be that it was 
compounded of the Greek words tpspw, to bring, and viky), victory ; alluding to its supposed 
efficacy in subduing diseases. E.) 
