The British flora; in 2 volumes : vol. 1. comprising the Phænogamous, or flowering plants, and the ferns / by William Jackson Hooker.
- William Jackson Hooker
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The British flora; in 2 volumes : vol. 1. comprising the Phænogamous, or flowering plants, and the ferns / by William Jackson Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![B DIANDUIA—MONOGYNIA. [Veronica. cumbent, capsule of 2 turgid keeled lobes, cells about 6-seeded. E. FI. v. i. p. 24. ]3orr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2603. Fields and waste places, abundant. FI. Apr.— Sept. ©.— Prostrate. Stems 3—4 inches long, slightly hairy. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Fruit of two round tumid lobes, much smaller than the calyx. Seeds large, cupped. 15. V.polita, Fries, {grey procumbent Field Speedwell) ; leaves all petiolate cordato-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower- stalks, segments of the calyx ovate acute, stem procumbent, capsule of 2 turgid lobes, cells many-seeded. Reich. Iconogr. v. iii. p. 45. t. 246.— V. agrestis, E. Bot. t. 783. Hook. Scot. \.p. 7. Cultivated fields and waste places, often with the preceding. FI. throughout the summer. 0.—Mr. Borrer has well illustrated this and the foregoing, V. agrestis, in the Supplement to E. Bot. t. 2603. These two species and the V. opaca of Fries,(with spathulate segments to the calyx,) border very closely upon each other, and are probably often confounded by Botanists. 16. V. Buxbaumii, Ten. (Buxbaum’s Speedwell) ; leaves all petiolate cordato-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower- stalks, segments of the calyx lanceolate acute, stem procumbent, capsule obcordate of two turgid divaricated lobes which are compressed upwards and sharply keeled, cells about S-seeded. Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2769.— V. Pcrsica, Stev.— V.fili- formis, Jolmst. FI. of Berw.p. 225, with Jig. {not of Vahl.) Hook. Br. FI. ed. 1. p. 6.— V. agrestis, (3. Hook. Brit. FI. ed. 2. p. 6. Fields and cultivated places; but scarcely indigenous. Shrubbery at Whiterig, Berwickshire, Dr. Johnston. Clover-field at Chalk-hole, near Margate, Rev. M. J. Berkeley. Plentiful among turneps in a field adjoining the Bird-in-hand Inn, Burford, Oxfordshire, Mr. Borrer. Near Newcastle along with V. polita and V. agrestis, Mr. 11. B. Bowman. Near Glasgow, Mr. Gardener. FI. Summer and autumn. ©. ■—Our acute friend Mr. Borrer grounds the distinguishing marks of this plant, as separating it from V. agrestis and V.polita, upon its larger size, and greater hairiness, the divaricated lobes of the capsule, which are compressed upwards and sharply carinated, and in the larger corolla rivalling in size and beauty that of V. Chamcedrys.—Mr. Borrer has in the Engl. Bot., by mistake, made it appear that we had, in the 2d ed. of this work, referred this plant to a variety of “ arvensis,” instead of polita {agrestis of Engl. Bot.). 17. V. arvensis, Linn. {Wall Speedwell); leaves cordato- ovate serrated the lower ones petiolate the upper or bracteas sessile lanceolate longer than the flowers which are subspicate, stems ascending. E. Bot. t. 734. E. FI. v. i. p. 24. Fields and walls, plentiful. FI. in the spring months and in early summer. Q.— Very different from the three last, especially in its in- florescence, which, if the upper leaves be considered bracteas, as they really are (for they differ both in size and shape from the cauline ones), is truly racemose or subspicate. The same may be said of the two next species, and of some continental ones, especially V. acinifolia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29306152_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
