. Field and woodland plants. ht blueor lilac colour, stripedwith dark blue veins;and appear from Mayto July. They arearranged in severalspike-like, many-flowered corolla tube isvery short; the stylelong and persistent;and the fruits areinversely-cordatecapsules. The CommonSpeedwell (1. officin-alis) is a small plant,with hairy, prostratestems from two toten inches in is common in dry places. The leaves are opposite, elliptical,serrate, with short stalks. The pale blue flowers, which areonly about a sixth of an inch in diameter, are in many-flowered,axillary, spike-like ra
. Field and woodland plants. ht blueor lilac colour, stripedwith dark blue veins;and appear from Mayto July. They arearranged in severalspike-like, many-flowered corolla tube isvery short; the stylelong and persistent;and the fruits areinversely-cordatecapsules. The CommonSpeedwell (1. officin-alis) is a small plant,with hairy, prostratestems from two toten inches in is common in dry places. The leaves are opposite, elliptical,serrate, with short stalks. The pale blue flowers, which areonly about a sixth of an inch in diameter, are in many-flowered,axillary, spike-like racemes. The ca|)sules are of the same form as inthe last species, but are deeply notched. This species fio\\ers fromMay to July. The Germander Speedwell {Veronica Chamaidrys) is one of ourmost beautiful and most abundant spring flowers. It is verycommon on banks and by roadsides, flowering during May andJune. Its stem is weak, decumbent, rooting at the base, oftenconsiderably more than a foot in length, and remarkable for the. The crosswort. WAYSIDES AND WASTES IN SPHINQ 101 line of haiis that changes to alternate sides at each node. A racemeof flowers, much longer than the leaves, arises from several of thenodes. The flowers are bright blue, about half an inch in diameter,with a four-cleft calyx ; a deeply four-cleft corolla, the lowerlobe of which is narrowest; and two prominent stamens. Thefruit is a very broad, flat capsule, notched at the top, narrowedtowards the base, splitting into two valves when ripe.
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