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V E R O N I C A agrestis.
Green Procumbent Speedwell.
D IAND R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. inferior, of 1 petal, 4-cleft, wheelshaped
; lowest division narrowest. Caps.
2-celled.
Spec. Char. Flowers solitary. Leaves stalked, ovate,
crenate. Stems procumbent. Segments of the
calyx oblong, blunt. Capsule obcordate : lobes
turgid, obsoletely,keeled, approximated. Seeds
cupped, about 6 in each cell.
Syn. Veronica agrestis. Linn. Sp. PL cd. 2. 18.
FI. Suec. ed. 2. 7. Schrad. FI. Germ. v. 1. 42.
8m. FI. Brit. 24. Engl. FI. v. 1 .2 4 . but not the
figures quoted from Engl. Bot. and FI. Dan.
Curt. Loud.— Fries. Nov. ed. 2. 2. Reichenb.
Iconogr. cent. 3. 66. t. 227. f . 440. Wahl.
FI. Suec. v. 1. 10. excl. the varieties. With,
v. 2. 17.
V. pulchella " Bastard.” DeCand. FI. Fr. Suppl.
388.
Alsine foliis Trissaginis. Ger. Em. 616. ƒ. 1.
Parks. Theatr. 7 6 4 ./. 4.
T h e r e is a remarkable difference of appearance between
the plant before us, indubitably Veronica agrestis of
Linnaeus, and that figured in t. 763 of this work; and accurate
examination proves them satisfactorily distinct. The
latter is presumed to be V. polita of Fries, notwithstanding
some trifling discrepancies in his description. The two
frequently grow intermixed in cultivated ground, and flower
throughout the summer. The present is perhaps of the
more general occurrence, but both are very common.
They agree in the procumbent, flaccid, cylindrical stems,
branched at the base only, and much elongated as the flower
fan o