Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker.

  • Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Flora Scotica, or A description of Scottish plants : arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods ; in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Hab. Moist woods, not very common. Dunglass, near tlie river, Light/. Langsicle wood, Glasgow, Dr. Brown. Woods, Cartlan crags, Glasgow, Hopk. Arniston and Lugton woods about llosslyn, Maugh. Campsie and Cathkin, Mr. Murray. Cliesh, Kinross-shire, Mr.Arnott. .F&June. %. Stem a foot or more in length, weak, trailing. Leaves large, slightly hairy. Flowers few, pale blue, veined, in loose racemes; pedicels long. Caps, large, twice the size of the calyx, of two orbicular lobes, flat, crenate at the margin and ciliated. 11. V. Chamcedrys {Germander Speedwell), flowers racemed, leaves ovate obtuse sessile inciso-serrate, stem bifariously hir- sute. Light/, p. 74. E. B. t. 623. Hab. Woods and pastures, common. Fl. May, June. ~U . Stem procumbent, a foot long, with a hairy line running down on each side, and these lines taking different sidesbetween each pair of leaves, or decussate. Leaves wrinkled and hairy j upper ones cordato-ovate. Racemes long, of many large pale, but bright blue or purplish flowers, sometimes white. Caps, shorter than the calyx, obcordate.—In habit resembling the preceding, but very distinct in essential characters. 12. N.AUionii (smooth-leaved Speedwell), flowers densely spik- ed, leaves ovate subserrated rigid and as well as the procum- bent stem perfectly glabrous. Fill. Delph. p. 8. D. Don, MSS. inedit. Hab. Mountains in Anguss-shire, G. Don. Fl. June, July. %. A valuable addition to our British Veronica;, nearly allied to V. officina- lis, but differing in the total absence of eveiy kind of pubescence or roughness on the stems and leaves, and in the very dense spike of brilliant blue flowers. *** Flowers axillary, solitary (plants annual). 13. V. agrestis (procumbent Speedwell), leaves (all) petiolate cordato-ovate inciso-serrate shorter than the flower-stalks, stem procumbent. Light/, p. 75. E. B. I. 783. Hab. Fields and waste places. Fl. April to July. ©. Plant 3 to 4 inches in length, slightly hairy. Flowerstalkslonger than the leaves, recurved when bearing fruit. Cor. small, bright blue. Caps, of two turgid lobes, pubescent. Seeds large, few. 14. V. arvensis (small Speedwell), leaves cordato-ovate serrate the lower ones petiolate, floral leaves sessile lanceolate longer than the flowerstalk, stem nearly erect. Light/, p. 75. E. B. t. 734. Hab. Fields and walls. Fl. April to July. ©. Habit and size of the preceding, or rather smaller, and often mistaken for it, though more from the similarity of the names, as Curtis well observes, than from any absence of characters. Flowers sessile or ^nearly so. Caps, obcordate, much compressed, ciliated. 15. V. hederi/olia (Ivy-leaved Speedwell), leaves cordato-ovate mostly 5-lobed, calycine segments cordate ciliated, stem pro- cumbent. Light/, p. 76. E. B. t. 784.