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* * Racemes in the arils ff the (>/>/>,;/< /<,,* .- stems creeping or procumbent at 

 r, btU above ascending: corolla, as in all the following, strictly wheel- 



- WATER SPEEDWELLS or BROOKI.IME, in water or wet ground, smooth and 



with [ink blue (sonntiiiK* <lt i r/.: r *////., //)_//'<;/v,-. s on si end, r .*]>',-, i,/;,,,/ pr-dir 



V. AnagalllS. In water N. : leaves lance-ovate acute, sessile bv a heart- 

 shaped base, 2'-3' long ; pod slightly notched, many-seeded. 



V. Americana. In brooks, much more common ; leaves mostly pctioled, 

 ovate or oblong, serrate ; flowers on more slender pedicels ; and pod" more tur- 

 gid than in the foregoing. 



V. SCUtellata. In bogs N. ; slender, with linear slightly toothed senile 

 leaves, only 1 or 2 very slender zigzag racemes, few long-pedicelled pale flower* ; 

 and very flat pod deeply notched at both ends, broader than long, few-seeded. 



*- *- In dry ground, pubescent, with light blue flowers in spike-like racemes. 



V. officinalis, COMMON SPEEDWELL. Spreading or creeping, low ; loaves 

 wedge-oblong or obovate, serrate, short-petioled ; pedicels shorter than calyx ; 

 pod wedge-obcordate, several-seeded. 



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Raceme loose, terminating the leafy low stem or Irnnch, x, or the small flowers 

 in the axils of the gradually decreasing leaves. 



V. serpyllifblia, THYME-LEAVED S. Creeping or spreading on tbc 

 ground; with simple flowering stems ascending 2' -4', smooth; lease.-, roundi.-h, 

 small, almost entire ; corolla pale blue or whitish with darker stripes longer 

 than the calyx. Jf. 



V. peregrina, NECKWEED or PUKSLAXE-S. Common weed in damp 

 waste or cult, ground; smooth, erect, branching, with lower leaves oval or 

 oblong and toothed, the upper oblong-linear and entire, inconspicuous flowers 

 almost sessile in their axils, whitish corolla shorter than the calvx, and inanv- 

 sccded pod slightly notched. 



V. arvensis, OM:V S. Introduced into waste and cult, grounds I",. ; 

 hairy, 3' - 8' high, with lower leases ovate and erenate, on petioles, the upper 

 sessile lanceolate and entire, blue flowers short-peduncled, and pod obcordate! i 



10. BUCHNERA, BLUE-HEARTS. (Named for one /,V/,,,,r, an earlv 

 German botanist.) Flowers summer. ]/ 



B. Americana. Sandy or gravelly plains, from New York \V. &. S. ; 

 rough-hairy, turning blackish in drying; with slender stem l-2i high, veiny 

 leaves coarsely few-toothed, the lowest obovate, middle ones ..blonir, uppermost 

 lance-linear, flowers scattered in the slender spike, and corolla deep purple. 



11. CALCEOLARIA. (From Latin m/iWi/s, a shoe or slipper.) Tender 

 South American lirrl.s or -limbs, \vith curious and handsome (lowers, cult, as 

 honse and bedding plants. The common cultivated species are now for the 

 most part too much mixed and crossed for botanical analysis. 



C. integrifblia (also called RCG6SA and SALVIJEFOLIA) is the commonest 

 woody-stemmed species, with oblong leaves rugose in the manner of Garden 

 Sage, and small yellow or orange flowers in crowded clusters. 



C. corymbbsa, herbaceous, hairy or clammy-pubescent, with ovate crcnate- 

 toothed leaves nearly all at the root, and loose corymbs or cymes of vellow flow- 

 ers, the purple-Spotted mouth considerably open. 



C. Crenatiflbra, a fertile parent of many of the more >lnwy herbaceous 

 garden (onus, \\-ith more leafy steins and larger (lowers, their orifice rounder and 

 smaller, the hanging lower lip or sac I' or more long, more ol.ovate and flat, 

 somewhat ",-lolied a> it were toward* the end. and variously spotted with purple, 

 brown, or crimson. 



C. scabiosaefolia is a delicate annual, with pinnntely divided slightly 

 hairy leaves, on petioles dilated and connate at base, and loose" small pale vellow 

 (lowers with globular lower lip about .V wide. 



