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VERONICA hirsuta.
Small hairy Speedwell.
D IAND R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. 4-cleft, rotate, lower segment narrower.
Capsule 2-celIed.
Spec. Char. Racemes slender, spiked. Leaves
ovato-lanceolate, slightly serrated, acute, bearing
a few scattered hairs. Stem procumbent, hairy.
Capsule broadly obovate, entire.
Syn. Veronica hirsuta. Hopk. FI. Glott. 9. Hook.
Scot. 6. Sm. Engl. Fl. v. 1. 22. Hook. Brit.
FI. 5.
Veronica setigera. D. Don, Descr. of Rare Plants
ofScotl. 4. Spreng. Syst. Feget. v . \ .7 3.
T h E roots of this plant are long and branched, fibrous,
thrown out from short procumbent somewhat shrubby
perennial stems, which scarcely exceed 2 inches in length,
and are glabrous below, downy above. Leaves ovato-lan-
ceolate, or sometimes wholly lanceolate, opposite, spreading,
entire or slightly serrated, bearing a few scattered
hairs. Racemes long in proportion to the diminutive size
of the plant, many-flowered, erect, leafy below, and having
linear bracteas at the base of the pedicels, all of which are
hairy. Calyx cut into 4 deep and unequal, linear, hairy
segments. Corolla rotate, pale purplish blue, with a deeper
line down the middle, the segments oblongo-obovate, obtuse.
Filaments and anthers purple ; the latter cordate
and apparently imperfect. Germen minute, clothed with
hairs, which are often glandular. Style longer than the
stamens : stigma capitate. Capsule rarely perfected