DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 
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48. 1 and 2— FI. Fan. 511— Fod. 593. 1-— Lob. Obs. 248. 3— Ger. Em. 
620. 1— Park. 1236. 1— H. Ox. iii. 24. 24— Ger. 496. 1. 
( Stems procumbent, or sometimes floating, cylindrical, sending out long 
fibrous roots. Whole plant smooth and succulent. Leaves variously 
serrated. Germen sessile, on a thick yellowish green glandular substance. 
Bloss. blue, (numerous, disposed in long stalked clusters. E.) 
Brooklime. (Welsh: Goferini , Llychlyn y dwr. E.) Slow shallow streams, 
and near springs that seldom freeze. P- June—July.* 
V. anagal'lis. Bunches lateral, (opposite. E.) leaves spear-shaped- 
serrated: stem upright. 
FI. Fan. 903 —Curt. 332— (E. Bot. 784. E.)— Ger. 496. 3— Pet. 51. 12 — 
Ger. 496. 2—Ger. Em. 620. 2—Riv. 100— J. B. iii. 791. 1— Blackw. 
48. 3— II. Ox. iii. 24. 25. 
( Plant one to two feet high, smooth, in general larger than the preceding, 
with more serrated and rather paler leaves. E.) Leaves opposite, sessile. 
Bunches of flowers ascending from the bosom of the leaves. Bloss. pale 
purplish blue. 
Water Speedwell. Long-leaved Brooklime. (Irish: Falcaireflhain. 
Welsh: Graeanllys y dwr. E.) Slow streams and shallow ponds. S. side 
of the King’s Park, Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. Ditches about Tamworth. 
(Crosby, and Garston, near Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. In Ouse Burn, 
Prestwick Car, and ditches near Tynemouth. Mr. Winch. Nicholas 
Meadow, Warwick. Perry. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. July—Aug. 
Var. 1. Bloss. of a beautiful pink. 
Wide ditches on the sides of the road from Gloucester to Tewkesbury. 
V. scutella'ta. Bunches lateral, thinly set with flowers, wide 
spreading, alternate: little fruit-stalks pendent: leaves strap- 
shaped. 
Curt. 333— (E. Bot. 782. E.)— Kniph. 10— Riv. 96, V. pal. angustifol. — FI. 
Fan. 209—J. B. iii. 791. 2—II. Ox. iii. 24. 27. 
Bunches slender, flaccid, diffuse. Linn. ( Plant slender, eight to ten inches 
high, either smooth or woolly according to its growth either in moist or 
dry ground. E.) Stem often trailing, and sending out roots from the 
joints. Leaves nearly horizontal. Spear-shaped, but narrow; set with 
two or three pairs of very minute teeth, mostly on the lower leaves. 
Fruit-stalk zig-zag. Bloss. white, or purplish, (streaked with blue lines. 
Capsule large, didymous. E.) 
Narrow Leaved Marsh Speedwell. (Welsh: Rhwyddlwyn culddail y 
gors. E.) Poor swampy soil. Boggy meadows near Bungay; and in 
the Cambridgeshire fens. Woodward. Broadmoor near Hales Owen, 
Salop. Ditches about Tamworth. (S. end of Wavertree, near Liver¬ 
pool, and about Bootle land-mark. Mr. Shepherd. On Poole and Can- 
ford heaths; in Purbeck. Pulteney. On Newcastle Town Moor. Mr. 
Winch. Shelfield; Coleshill Bog, Warwickshire. Purton. Bogs on 
Haldon, and Bovey Heathfield, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. Culgarth 
Moor, Kirkland, Cumberland. Hutchinson. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. S. 
side of Duddingston Loch; Braid Hill Marshes. Grev. Edin. E.) 
* The leaves are mild and succulent, and are eaten in salads early in the spring. 
Cows, goats, and horses eat it, swine refuse it. This, and some other species of Vero - 
nica, afford nourishment to Papilio cinxia, Curculio and Chrysomela Beccabmiga. 
