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Petals not exceeding the ovate sepals. Cap- 

 sule-lobes rounded, the most distal point 

 of each about midway between the style 

 and the lateral margin. Style shorter 

 than the capsule. 

 Leaf-blades oblong-ovate, crenate-serrate. 

 Capsule 4-5 mm. wide, with a narrow 

 notch about one-third depth of cap- 

 sule; the stout style (less rhan 1 mm. 

 long) about equaling the capsule- 

 lobes 13. V. agrestis. 



Leaf-blades ovate, dentate with rounded 

 teeth. Capsule 4 mm. wide, less 

 deeply and narrowly notched; the 

 slender style (1-1.5 mm. long) surpass- 

 ing the capsule-lobes 14. V. polila. 



Petals much exceeding the narrowly ovate 

 sepals. Capsule-lobes acutish in pro- 

 file, the most distal point of each near 

 the lateral margin. Style as long as the 



capsule 15. V. persica. 



Capsule-lobes united only at base. Leaf-blades 

 serrate, narrowed at base. Stem pubes- 

 cent with gland-tipped hairs 16. V. biloba. 



Leaf-blades broadly and shallowly cordate, 3-5- 

 lobed, the lobes rounded and entire. Sepals 

 broadly ovate, conspicuously ciliate. Cap- 

 sule turgid, scarcely notched at apex, gla- 

 brous. Seeds 2.5-3 mm. long, blackish. .17. V. hakracfolia. 



1. Veronica maritima L. 



Veronica maritima L., Sp. PI. 10. 1753. "Habitat in maritimis 

 Europae macris apricis." According to Linn6, Fl. Lapp. 5. 1737: 

 "Ad fines Alpium Lapponicarum iuxta mare septentrionale saepius 

 conspicitur, in toto itinere nullibi coposior visa est, quam in maritimis 

 Tornoensibus. " Type carefully described by Sir. J. E. Smith, and 

 specimen from Tornea, collected by C. P. Laestadius, seen in Herb. 

 New York Botanical Garden. This is a form with long-acuminate, 

 sharply serrate leaves. 



Veronica longifolia L., 1. c. 10. 1753. "Habitat in Tataria, 

 Austria, Svecia." Diagnosis quoted from Linne, Hort. Ups. 7. 

 1748, where this plant is more fully described and is cited: "Habitat 

 in Tataria." Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees Cyclop. 37: Art. Veronica, 

 no. 10, 1819, discussing the specimens in the Linnean Herbarium, 

 carefully contrasts these two Linnean species. V. longifolia he dis- 

 tinguishes by its leaves less deeply and doubly serrate, on shorter 

 petioles, and calyx shorter (not longer) than the tube of the corolla, 

 its lobes broad, ovate and nearly equal (not unequal and narrow). 

 All which contrasts certain plants; however each character varies, 

 and it seems difficult or impossible to distinguish these as species. 



Roadsides and waste land, from the Magdalen Islands and Prince 

 Edward Island to Quebec, Connecticut and central New York. 

 Introduced from northern Eurasia. 



