alone very slightly hairy, and principally at the margin and 
base. Flowers upon the leafless extremity of the stem, thus 
as it were peduncled, ina compact corymb, which eventually 
lengthens out into a short, fructified spike or raceme. 
Bractee \inear, subulate, nearly as long as the flower. 
Calyx deeply four-partite; its segments lanceolate, and as 
well as the bractee, short pedicels and peduncle, clothed 
with purple hairs, which are often terminated by glands. 
Corolla with a rather long and broad tube, so as to be 
almost funnel-shaped, nearly white: limb of four spreading, 
purplish-blue, obtuse segments, marked with deeper veins. 
Stamens two. Anthers blue. Capsule oblongo-obcordate, 
thickly clothed with purple hairs, which are mostly, not 
always, glandular, and tipped with the capitate style, which 
is about one third of its length. 
At the first aspect of the Veronica here figured, there are 
few Botanists, I believe, who would think of referring it to 
the rare but humble V. alpina of our Scottish mountains, 
nor was it till after a careful comparison of many specimens 
in company with my friend Dr. Grauam, that I could be 
satisfied of its identity. I have long known the plant as 
a native of Greenland ; especially from specimens that have 
been communicated to me at various times, by Professor 
Horneman of Copenhagen, who though aware of its being 
the Wormskioldii of Rommer and Scuuttes, yet hesitated 
about considering it a species. CHamisso met with it at 
Unalaschka, and described it as his var. Unalaschkensis of 
A. alpina. Mr. Drummonp gathered it in considerable 
plenty on moist alpine prairies on the Rocky Mountains, 
and from his seeds, plants have been raised both in the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The drawing 
here given was made by Mr. James Macnas. I. possess 
the same plant from Labrador, gathered by the late Mr. 
Morrison. 
Fig. 1, Corolla, 2, Fruit.—Magnified, 
