28G SCROPHULARIACE^J. Synthyris. 



King, 227, t. 22, wrongly depicted with 2 styles! Utah, in Wahsatch Mountains at 9,000 

 feet, Watson. S. Idaho, on mountains near Virginia City, Hayden. 



Var. laciniata. Leaves all of roundish or reniform outline, and laciniately many- 

 cleft to the middle or less. Fish-Lake Mountain, Utah, 11,700 feet, L. F. Ward. 



H h- Leaves undivided, merely crenate or crenulate : scape or stem leaf v-bracteate. 



-H- Corolla mostly 2-parted, rarely 3-partecl, and stamens inserted on its verv base. 



S. alpina, Gray. A span or only an inch or two high, early glabrate except the very 

 lanuginous inflorescence : radical leaves oval or subcordate, an inch or so long on a longer 

 petiole: base of stem or scape naked: spike very dense, oblong or cylindraceous : bracts 

 and lanceolate sepals very long-vvoolly-villous at margins : corolla violet-purple, very 

 unequal ; its broad upper lip twice the length of the calyx, the 2-3-parted lower one 

 small and included. Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiv. 251. Colorado Rocky Mountains in 

 the alpine region, first collected by Parry. 



S. plantaginea, Beilth. A footer less high, rather stout ; tomentulose-pubescent when 

 young, tardily glabrate : radical leaves oblong, rarely cordate, usually obtuse at base, 

 pale or dull, 2 to 4 inches long : scape very leafy-bracteate : dense spike 3 to 5 inches long : 

 bracts and ovate sepals glabrate and villous-ciliate : corolla purplish; its upper lip little 

 exceeding the calyx, twice the length of the 2-3-lobed lower one. Prodr. 1. c. ; Gray, 

 1. c. Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, in subalpine woods, first collected 

 in Long's expedition, by James. 



S. Houghtoniana, Bentll. A foot or two high, pubescent radical leaves cordate or 

 ovate, 2 or 3 inches long: scape or stem strict, very leafy-bracteate: spike 4 to 8 inches 

 long, dense, or at base open : bracts and oblong-lanceolate sepals soft-pubescent : corolla 

 greenish or dull yellowish, not longer than the calyx, variously 2-4-parted ; the divisions 

 almost equal in length. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 331. Oak-barrens and prairies, Michigan and 

 Wisconsin to W. Illinois. Rarely with 3-celled ovary, or 5-merous calyx, or 4 stamens, 

 the additional pair later. 



-H- -w- Corolla wanting: stamens inserted on the outside of the hypogynous disk. 



S. rubra, Benth.. 1. c. A span to a foot or more high, rather stout, more or less pubes- 

 cent, and the spike (2 to 5 inches long) tomentose : radical leaves ovate or obscurely 

 cordate (1 to 3 inches long), thickish ; the cauline similar, but small and sessile: sepals 

 oblong: capsule turgid. Gymnandra rubra, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. ii. 103. t. 172. Along 

 streams, interior of Oregon to Brit. Columbia, Montana, and N. Utah. Name inappropri- 

 ate : perhaps the stamens are reddish. 



25. VERONICA, L. SPEEIMVELL, BROOKLIME. (Flower of St. Vero- 

 nica ?) Herbs in all the northern temperate regions, &c. (in Australia and New 

 Zealand, in a peculiar section, shrubby or even arborescent, and with a turgid 

 septicidal capsule), of various habit; the leaves opposite or verticillate, or some- 

 times the upper alternate, as are the bracts. Flowers small, racemose, spicate, or 

 solitary in the axils, never yellow ; in spring or summer. 



1. LEPTJ(NDRA, Benth: in DC. Corolla salverforni ; the tube longer than 

 the lobes : stamens and style much exserted, the former inserted low on the tube : 

 capsule ovate, turgid, hardly at all compressed, not at all emarginate, dehiscent at 

 apex by all four sutures, at length more loculicidal : seeds numerous, oval and 

 terete, with minutely reticulated coat: tall perennials: leaves mostly verticillate: 

 flowers in dense terminal and also upper axillary spikes, minutely bracteate. 

 Leptandra, Nutt. Gen. i. 7 . Eustachya & Callistachya, Raf. 



LEPTANDRA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hamb. 1839 (Ventnii-n fim/iistifolia, Steud.), 

 mistakenly said to have been raised from New Orleans seed, is V. tubijiora, Fischer & Meyer, 

 of E. Siberia. 

 V. Virginica, L. (CULVKR'S PHYSIC.) Nearly glabrous, or foliage pubescent: simple 



stems 2 to 6 feet high : leaves in whorls of 3 to 9, lanceolate and slender-acuminate, some- 



