RHINANTHACEAE 1209 
Leaf-blades rounded or cordate at base: sepals ovate: corolla 6-8 
mm. long, with curved spur: anthers usually more or less co- 
hering. 2. K. spuria. 
1. K. Elatine (L.) Dumort. Mte 2-8 dm. long: leaf-blades 1-2 em. par. 
ovate, hastate at the deaur or ae cordate base, the petioles 2-4 mm 
long: sepals 3-5 mm. ue e iri dp dnd -lan 
n E 3—5 mm. long: C pedi. 3 
ong, equalling or exceeding the m 
erts with strongly ra p and wing-like 
aoe — (CANKER-ROOT.) — Waste- places, 
andy fields, and roadsides, various B n 
Ga. to La., Mo., Mass., and Del Nat. of 
2. K. spuria (L.) Dumort. Stem 2-8 dm. 
es 
.10ng 
mm. long: capsule 3.5-4 mm. long, nearly 
concealed in the calyx: seeds Mi slightly 
raised  retieulations and  convolutions.— 
(FEMALE FLUELLIN Pedes places a and ballast, various provinces, Ala. to Mo., 
N. Y., and N. C. .of Eu.—Sum 
27. VERONICASTRUM Fabr. Tall virgate herbs, the solitary stem 
erect from an elon ngate rootstock. Leaves whorled: blades narrow or relatively 
€ toothed, short-petioled. Flowers in a terminal spike-like raceme which is 
ually accompanied by several smaller racemes axillary to the upper leaf- 
od Bracts very small. Bractlets none. Sepals 5, uniform. Corolla tubu- 
lar, white or pinkish-white: lobes broad, less than half the length of the tube, 
the posterior ones wholl 
psule ovoid, gla 
slightly loeulieidal. um - 
nen reticulate.—T'wo species, "i fallo w- 
ing and one Asiatic. 
1. V. virginicum (L.) Farwell. Stem 10- 
20 dm. tall: leaves whorled in 3's-6's, usu- 
ally in 5's: blades lanceolate to elliptic- 
ovate, 3—-Jarom. long, finely serrate: racemes 
20—30 em song, iu the bracts setaceous- 
subulate, 2-3 ong: pedicels less than 1 mm. long: sepals ovate- ower ia 
about 2 mm. ave AM o mm. long, glabrous without, pubescent within 
filaments nearly twice as long as the pn eapsule 3 mm. long. [Veronica 
virginica L. Leptandra virginica (L.) tt.]|—(BowMAN’s-RooT. CULVER’S- 
PHYSIC. BLACK- yk mE and a woods, various provinces, Ga. to 
—Sum 
28. VERONICA L. Low creeping or Spreading perennial or an 
herbs. Leaves opposite or alternate above: blades linear to cord ate, toot ed 
or nearly entire. Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or spikes. Bractlets 
