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SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



i. Veronica Anagallis-aquatica L. Water 

 Speedwell or Pimpernel. Fig. 3796. 



Veronica Anagallis-aquatica L. Sp. PI. 12. 1753. 



Perennial by stolons or leafy shoots developed in 

 autumn ; stem rather stout, glabrous, or glandular- 

 puberulent above, erect or decumbent, often rooting 

 at the lower nodes, usually branched, i-3 high. 

 Leaves of sterile autumn shoots orbicular to obovate, 

 obtuse, serrulate, narrowed into margined petioles, 

 those of the flowering stems ovate, oblong, or lan- 

 ceolate, sessile and more or less clasping or the 

 lowest short-petioled, serrulate or entire, ii'~4' long, 

 \'-2.' wide; racemes peduncled, borne in most of the 

 axils, a'-s' long; bractlets shorter than or exceeding 

 the pedicels ; flowers blue, or purplish striped, 2 ' 

 broad ; capsule compressed, not very flat, nearly or- 

 bicular, 2-lobed, emarginate, ii" high; seeds flat. 



In brooks and swamps, Nova Scotia to British Co- 

 lumbia, south to North Carolina, Nebraska and New 

 Mexico. Also in Europe and Asia. The plant of the 

 Atlantic Coast appears as if introduced. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. May-Sept. 



2. Veronica americana Schwein. American Brooklime. Fig. 3797. 



V. americana Schwein. ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 : 468. 1846. 



Similar to the preceding species, perennial by stolons 

 or leafy shoots, glabrous throughout; stem decumbent, 

 usually branched, rooting at the lower nodes, 6'-3 long. 

 Leaves oblong, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, all distinctly 

 petioled, sharply serrate, truncate, rounded, or subcor- 

 date at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, i'-3' 

 long, i'-i' wide; racemes peduncled, borne in most of 

 the axils, loose, elongated, sometimes 6' long; bractlets 

 shorter than the pedicels ; flower blue or nearly white, 

 usually striped with purple, 2" broad; capsule nearly 

 orbicular, compressed, but not very flat, emarginate, ii" 

 high; seeds flat. 



In brooks and swamps, Anticosti to Alaska, south to 

 Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New Mexico and California. 

 Ascends to 2600 ft. in the Catskills. Wallink. Blue-bells. 

 April-Sept. 



Veronica Beccabunga L., a European brooklime, similar 

 to V. americana in habit, but with crenate or low-serrate 

 broad tipped leaves, is naturalized about Quebec and has been found on ballast about seaports in 

 New York and New Jersey. 



3. Veronica scutellata L. Marsh or Skullcap 

 Speedwell. Fig. 3798. 



Veronica scutellata L. Sp. PI. 12. 1753. 



Glabrous, or very sparingly pubescent, rarely quite 

 hairy, perennial by leafy shoots or stolons; stems slen- 

 der, decumbent or ascending, leafy, simple or branched, 

 commonly rooting at the lower nodes, 6'-2 high. Leaves 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile and slightly clasping, 

 remotely denticulate, acute, i'-3' long, i"-3" wide; ra- 

 cemes borne in nearly all the axils, or only in the alter- 

 nate ones, equalling or longer than the leaves ; bractlets 

 much shorter than the filiform spreading pedicels; flow- 

 ers blue, 2"-3" broad ; capsule broader than high, very 

 flat, deeply emarginate at the summit, slightly so at the 

 base, 2"-2\" broad ; seeds flat. 



In swamps, Labrador to British Columbia, south to south- 

 ern New York, Minnesota and California. Also m Europe 

 and Asia. May-Sept. 



