20 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 
V. monta'na. Bunches lateral, of few flowers: calyx rough with 
hair: leaves egg-shaped, scolloped, on leaf-stalks: stem feeble. 
Jacq. Austr. 109 —Curt. 220— {E. Bot. 766. E.)—Col. Ecphr . 288— Pet. 
51. 4>—H. Ox. iii. 23. 15—Riv. 23— Park. 589. 3. 
(Stems hairy all round, six to twelve inches long, ascending, weak. Bloss. 
pale blue, veined, few, small. Caps, large, of two orbicular lobes, ciliated. 
E.) In its general habit this plant resembles V. Chamcedrys, but if the 
sessile leaves of the latter, and the leaf-stalks of the former should not be 
thought sufficient to distinguish them, it may be further observed, that 
in V. montana the leaves are reddish underneath, heart-shaped, but blunt; 
the stem hairy all over, and the flowers smaller. {Caps, thrice as large 
as those of V. Chamcedrys. Sm. E.) Its usual stations, in moist woods 
and other shady places, do not well accord with its trivial name. 
Mountain Madwort. Mountain Germander Speedwell. (Welsh: 
Ilhioyddlwyn mynyddawl. Moist woods, in calcareous soil. E.) Woods 
at the west end of Powick-ham, Worcestershire. Dr. Stokes. Kirkstall 
Abbey, Leeds. Mr. Aikin. Shortwood, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, 
plentiful. Rev. G. Swayne. (At the entrance to Kent’s Hole, near 
Torquay, Devon. Rev. Pike Jones. Woods near Roslin. Mr. Brown. 
Armingham Wood, near Norwich. Mr. Woodward. In most of the 
woods about Dover. Dillwyn. Woods near Plasnewydd, and Baron 
Hill, in Anglesey. Rev. H. Davies. On the bank below the wood at 
Friar’s Goose, near Newcastle; Cawsey Wood; Heaton Woods, &c. 
near Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and at Wallow Craig, near Keswick. Mr. 
Winch. Woods and hedges at Eversholt, Bedfordshire. Abbot. Woody 
part of the Devil’s Ditch, Newmarket Heath. Relhan. Near the rivulet 
in Garn dingle, near Denbigh, and in the upper wood at Tower, near 
Mold, and other woods about Mold. Mr. Griffith. Leigh Wood, Bristol. 
Dyer. About Colebrook Dale, plentifully. Turner, in Bot. Guide. E.) 
P. May—June. 
V. cham(e'drys. Bunches lateral: leaves egg-shaped, sessile, wrinkled, 
deeply serrated: stem hirsute, but the hairs disposed only in 
two opposite longitudinal lines. 
Curt. — Kniph. 11— Fuch. 872— Trag. 203— J. B. iii. 286. 1— FI. Dan. 
448— Wale. — Ger. 530. 4— Riv. 94— V. prat, latif. — Clus. i. 352. 1— 
Ger. Em. 657. 3 —Lob. Obs. 259. 4— H. Ox. iii. 32. 12. 
Bunches frequently opposite. ( Stem somewhat ascending, a foot long. 
Bloss. numerous, large, bright blue, with darker streaks, and a white 
centre, outside pale and flesh-coloured. Caps, small, inversely heart- 
shaped. This plant differs essentially from the preceding species, and is 
of much more frequent occurrence. E.) 
Wild Germander. Germander Speedwell. (Irish: Elough. Welsh: 
Rhwyddlwyn blewynnawg. E.) Pastures, sides of hedges, common. 
(A variety of this plant, with white Jlowers, grows at Udimere, near 
Rye. Sussex. Mr. Borrer, in Bot. Guide. E.) P. May.* 
* The leaves are a better substitute for tea than those of V. officinalis, being more 
grateful and less astringent. Cows and goats eat it; sheep, horses, and swine refuse it. 
(This elegant little flower, which only expands in fine weather, (“the celestial bird’s- 
eye blossom/’ as Phillips happily designates if,) has sometimes been mistaken for the 
real “ Forget me not” of the Continent, and certainly rivals, in pleasing delicacy of 
form and colour, that symbol of fidelity : but the legend bespeaks an aquatic. See 
Myosoiis palustris. E.) 
