b DIANBRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



3 0. ORNUS. Persooiu (Flowci'in.^-ash.) 



Calix 4-i)artcd. Corolla 4 parted; petals loii^ 

 aud ligulate. Filaments long. JS^iit winged. 



A tree with opposite, and unequally^ piiinated leaves, 

 (like the Ash to which it is nearly related. ) Flowers in 

 terminal panicles. 



Species. 1 O .Imei^icmui, (scarce) not very dislinctfrom 

 the Orniis Kvropiea, (or Fiaxi/ms onws of Lin.) 



f f Fniit a capsule. Corolla monopetalous, irregular. 



11. VERONICA. Z. (Speedwell.) 



Calix 4 -parted. Corolla rotate, 4-lobed, une- 

 qual, tlie lower segment narrower. Capsule 2- 

 celled, obcordate; seeds few. 



Herbaceous, or more rarely suifrulicose; many species 

 have opposite and sometimes ternate leaves, rarely entire, 

 mostly crcnate, toothed or deeply serrate, also pinnatifid 

 or rarely digitately divided; flowers in spikes or corymbose 

 racemes, which are either axillary or terminal; a smaller 

 number of species have alternate leaves, and solitary ax- 

 illary flowers; very rarely the calix is 5-parted. In the V. 

 ruUtudifolia of Peru the flowers are sometimes S-cleft, 

 with 4 stamina; in the V- niidicauUa of the European Alps 

 tlie capsule is ovate and entire! 



A genus chiefly confined to Europe, many of the spe- 

 cies are entirely alpine, others have become natural- 

 ized throughout that continent, in Northern .^sia, and now 

 profusely spread over North America. A single anomalous 

 species is descr. bod as growing in Peru- The V- decussata 

 of Linngeus, discovered by Commerson at the straits of 

 Magellan, a shrub with evergreen leaves called Ilebe by the 

 discoverer, and described byjussieu with an ovate capsule, 

 can scarcely be conceived as a legitimate species of Vero- 

 nica. 5 other species of this genus were discovered ia 

 New-Zealand by Forster. 



Species. 1. V. officinalis. '2. * reniformis. 3. serpillijolia. 

 A. Beccabunga. 5. AnnagalUs. 6. ^ute'data. — (Peduncles 

 l-fiowered — ) 7. agrestis- 8- urveiisis. 9.peregrijia. As yet 

 there has not been a single genuine species of this genus 

 discovered in N. America that is not also common lo Eu- 

 rope and Northern Asia, if we except the V. reniforinis of 

 Fursh, which if distinct, may probably also exist in Sibe- 

 ria. Of the 9 species here enumerated, Nos. 1; 3, 7, 8, and 



