Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

DTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 75
Zin. Mant. 317, S-p. PI. 17. (Ger. Em. (^s'h /•
3, Uiji. Ox. SeJf. 3, T. 23, /. 12, 0^^. D^;?. /.
448, opt.)
Wild Germ mder. Jnglis.
Found very common under hedges and in meadows.
11. V. and VI.
Obf. The leaves are hairy, and the flowers of an
elegant bright blue, ftreak'd with veins of a
deeper color. It is a great ornament to the
hedges.
*** Pedunculis unifloris.
VERONICA floribus folitariis, foliis cordatls in-
cifis pedunculo brevioribus. Lin. Sp. PI 18.
(Ge)'. Em. 616./. i. Oed. Dan. t. 449. opt.)
Germander-Speedwell, or Chickweed. Ayiglis.
A common weed. O. V.
Obf. It has branched trailing flalks, with leaves
growing oppofite at the bafe, but alternate at the
top : the flowers are very fmall, generally blue,
and grow flngly on long footfl:alks.
V. P.oribus folitariis, foliis cordatis incifis pedun-
culo longioribus. Lin. Sp. PL 18. (Ger. Em.
Pag. 61 ^.f. 7. Mor. Hijl. Ox. Se£f. 3. /. 24./.
21, Oed. Dan. t. 515.)
Wall-Speedwell. Anglis.
It is common upon old walls. O. V.
Obf The flov/ers of this are generally of a pale
color, almoft: white, growing on very fliort or
no tbotftalks, which difl:inguiflies it fufficiently
from the preceding,
hederifolia 1 1 .