The northern flora, or, A description of the wild plants belonging to the north and east of Scotland, with an account of their places of growth and properties. Part. 1 / by Alexander Murray.
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The northern flora, or, A description of the wild plants belonging to the north and east of Scotland, with an account of their places of growth and properties. Part. 1 / by Alexander Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![D.ANDniA.] VERONICA. ^ hill. &c. Frequent in the Alford woods; and remarkably abun- dant between Kintore and Inverury. In the vicinity of Haddo House. Lord JSerto.—Banff- shire. Rev. Mr. Cowie.—Indeed, so common over all the north, that a detail of stations is unnecessary. Mr. H. C. Watson finds this species at the height of above 500 yards on the Forfarshire mountains, and 100 yards higher in Aberdeenshire. Perennial—flowering in June and July. 5. Veronica Chamoedrys. Germ.ander Speedwell. Wild Germander. Stem by no means erect, somewhat twisted, its hairs col- lected into two opposite longitudinal lines. Leaves for the most part stalkless, ovate, wrinkled, very deeply serrated. Clusters rather long, many-flowered, their stalks hairy all round. Corolla of a bright blue. Capsule heart-shaped, small, shorter than the calyx. Abundant in woods, banks, pastures, and the bottoms of hedges. Mr. Watson observed it 500 yards high in Forfar- shire. Perennial—flowering in May and June. 6. Veronica montana. Mountain Madivort. Si em long, weak, trailing, uniformly hairy. Leaves ovate, deeply serrated, with very hairy stalks. Spikes loose, few- flowered. Corolla pale blue. Capsule large, extending much beyond the calyx, roundish, approaching the kidney-shape, membranous, fringed. Woods and moist places, rare. Forfarshire, on the banks of the Esk. G. Don.—Deskford, Banfi^shire, in a wood near the Church. Rev. Mr. Cowie.— Between Gordon Castle and Deskford. Mr. Craigie.— Holly Bank, near Gordon Castle. Mr. R. Bremner.—In Moray, at Bridge of Newmill. Alves, and the Island, Inverness. Mr. Stables.—Knockando, Elginshire. Nevj Stat. Account. Perennial—flowering in June. Obs.—^The three preceding species have various points of simi- larity. The rigid, stalked, slightly serrated leaves of V. officinalis tapering at the base into an elliptical form, might alone separate this plant from the two others; and if we add its hairiness and almost prostrate woody stem, this species will not be mistaken for any other member of the genus. V. montana, though, without any doubt, a distinct plant (which it is said Sherard first discovered in England, in Charlton wood, Kent) has certainly no little similarity to the Cha- maidrys, but its uniform hairiness of stem with the leaves upon stalks which are often about an inch long, removes all doubt between this species and V. Chammlrys, which is remarkable for two hairy lines](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21942973_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
