xii CLASSICAL ABBREVIATIONS.

Mo. Di. Tri. Tetr. Pen. Hex. and Poly. serve also in the orders to express Monogynia, Digynia, Trigynia, Tetragynia, Pentagynia, Hexagynia and Polygynia.

However contrary to the author's wishes, it became necessary, in order to give the volume a more portable appearance, thus to abbreviate, and he is convinced that the scientific Botanist, wanting no such key to the explanation of the Botanical terms, will rather applaud than condemn it.

FLORA

FLORA BEDFORDIENSIS.

CLASS. I.

I Male. I Female. Mo. Mo.

Mare's-tail. HIPPURIS. Gen. Pl. 15. Cup none, Blossom noné, Stigma simple, I Seed.

1. Common Mare's-tail. H. vulgaris.

Leaves in eights, awl-shaped.

Curtis.

Fasc. IV. fig. 1. Flora Danica. tab. 87. Ditches, May, P. Common.

I Male. II Females. Mo. Di.

Starwort. CALLITRICHE. Gen. Pl. 17. Cup none, Petals 2. Capsule 2-celled, 4 Seeds. C. verna.

2. Vernal Starwort.

Upper leaves oval, male and female organs in separate flowers. Flora Danica. 129. admirable.

Ditches, April, A. Common.

I Male. II Females.

Mo. Di.

3. Autumnal Starwort. C. autumnalis. All the leaves strap-shaped, nicked at the end, male and female organs in the same flower. Loesel. Fl. Prus. 38.

Ditches, September, A. Common.

Note.

The three foregoing plants are all to be found in the ditches above Bedford, between the Town and Ford-End Farm.

CLASS. II.

II Males. I Female.

Di. Mo.

Privet. LIGUSTRUM. Gen. Pl. 23.

Blossom 4-cleft, Berry containing 4 Seeds.

Leaves ovate, blunt, panicle single or three forked.

Speedwell. VERONICA. Gen. Pl. 32. Blossom with a border of 4 divisions, lower segment narrowest, Capsule of 2 divisions.

5. Common Speedwell. V. officinalis. Spikes lateral on fruit-stalks, leaves opposite, stem trailing. -Curtis. III. 1. admirable. Woodville. 219.

Mountainous

Bunch of flowers terminal, resembling a spike, leaves ovate, smooth, scolloped. Curtis. I. 3. admirable.

Moist Meadows and Pastures, May, P. Common.

7. Brooklime Speedwell. - V. Beccabunga. Bunches lateral, leaves flat, ovate, stem creeping. Curtis. II. 3.

Ditches and Rivulets, June, A, Common.

8. Water Speedwell. V. Anagallis.

Bunches lateral, leaves spear-shaped, serrated, stem upright. Curtis. V. 2. Ditches, July, P. Common.

9. Narrow-leaved Speedwell.

V. scutellata.

Bunches lateral, little fruit-stalks hanging down, leaves strap-shaped, seldom toothed. Curtis. V. 3.

Turfy Bogs and Marshy Places, July, P. Rare.

II Males. I Female.

Di. Mo.

Obs:

bunches bearing many

Stem nearly upright, weak: bunches

flowers, upper segment of the Blossom striped with blue Veins. Runners of the Root mostly barren, so as not to justify it's being called a creeping Plant.

10. Germander Speedwell.

V. Chamædrys.

Bunches lateral, leaves ovate, sitting, wrinkled, toothed, stem hairy on two sides. Martyn. 66. admirable. Curtis. I. 2. Pastures, May, P. Common.

11. Mountain Speedwell. V. montana. Bunches lateral, with few flowers, cups hairy, leaves ovate, wrinkled, scolloped, on leafCurtis. IV. 2.

stalks, stem limber.

Hoffman. Ger. Flo. 1.

Woods and Hedges, May, P. Rare.

Eversholt.

Obs:

Root greatly creeping, leaves deeply notched, Fruitstalks distinct and very long, flowers paler and fewer than in the Chamædrys.

12. Garden Speedwell.

shorter than the fruit-stalk.

Curtis. I. 1.

Flowers single, leaves heart-shaped, jagged,

Gardens and Fields, May, A. Common.

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