FIGWORT FAMILY 797 



the stems ascending or erect, 4-10 dm. long. Leaves opposite, the blades oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 serrate to merely denticulate, rounded to clasping bases, but those of autumnal shoots smaller 

 and rounded, proximally narrowed to petioled bases ; flowers in small-bracted axillary racemes, 

 which are usually many-flowered, the pedicels 6-8 mm. long; sepals 4, lanceolate, acute, 4-4.5 

 mm. long; corolla 5 mm. wide, pale lavender, the lobes with violet lines; style 1.8-2.5 mm. 

 long ; capsule 4 mm. long, ovate, obtuse at the narrowed but scarcely or not notched apex ; seeds 

 0.5 mm. long. 



Stream banks and irrigation ditches, occasionally naturalized from Europe. June-Aug. 



12. Veronica connata subsp. glaberrima Pennell. Broad-fruited 

 Water Speedwell. Fig. 4791. 



Veronica catenata Pennell, Rhodora 23: 37. 1921. 



Veronica connata subsp. glaberrima Pennell, Monog. Acad. Phila. 1 : 368. 1935. 



Probably biennial, glabrous throughout, the stems submersed or distally rising above the 

 water. Leaves opposite, the blades oblong-lanceolate, acute or acutish, crennate-serrate with low 

 and relatively remote teeth, those of the lateral shoots smaller but essentially similar ; flowers in 

 small-bracted many-flowered racemes, the pedicels 4-6 mm. long ; sepals 4, oblong or nearly so, 

 obtuse, 4 mm. long ; corolla 5 mm. wide, white, the lobes proximally with wide purple lines ; fila- 

 ments 1.5 mm. long; style 2 mm. long; capsules 2.5-3 mm. long, obcordately notched between the 

 divaricate rounded cells (3.5-4 mm. wide) ; seeds 0.3-0.4 mm. long. 



Slow-flowing streams and ditches, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; occasional within our territory, 

 occurring from Washington and Manitoba, south to southern California, New Mexico, and Missouri. Type 

 locality: Hot Springs, South Dakota. July-Sept. 



13. Veronica scutellata L. Marsh or Grass-leaved Speedwell. Fig. 4792. 



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



Perennial, glabrous throughout [except in the rare and sporadic forma villosa (Schum.) 

 Pennell, Rhodora 23:38. 1921], rhizomatose at base, the slender stems 1-6 dm. tall. Leaves 

 opposite, the blades linear to linear-lanceolate, remotely setaceous-toothed or entire; flowers in 

 lax small-bracted axillary racemes, which are usually 5-20-flowered, the pedicels 6-17 mm. long; 

 sepals 4, oblong, acute, 3 mm. long; filaments 2.5 mm. long; .style 2-4 mm. long; capsule 3^ mm. 

 long, deeply obcordate between the divaricate rounded cells (4-5 mm. wide). 



Marshes, swales, and ditches, Transition Zones; British Columbia to central California, east to New Eng- 

 land; also in Eurasia. May-Aug. 



22. SYNTHtRIS Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 10: 454. 1846. 



Perennial glandless herbs, with radical petioled leaves and erect flowering sterns that 

 bear distally racemes of blue or violet-blue flowers. Bracteoles none. Sepals 4, distinct. 

 Corolla campanulate to rotate, 4-lobed (by complete fusion of the upper pair of petals), 

 its upper lip plane, the lower lobes parted to the tube. Stamens 2 (the postero-lateral 

 pair). Stigmas united, minutely capitate. Capsule flattened, loculicidal. Seeds flattened 

 or with incurved margins, many or few. [Name Greek, meaning closed doors, referring 

 to the capsule-valves.] 



A genus of 14 species, of western North America. Type species, Wulfenia reniformis Dougl. 



Seeds dull brown, with thick incurved margins, only 2 to a capsule-cell; capsule hirsute, much wider than 

 long; corolla campanulate, its lobes shorter than the tube; sepals ciliate; fruiting pedicels exceeding their 

 subtending bracts, the racemes spreading or deflexing in fruit; leaf-blades crenate or crenately dentate, 

 cordate at base. I- Plagiocarpus. 



Seeds yellowish brown, with thin flat margins, several or many to each capsule-cell; capsule glabrous at maturity; 

 corolla tubular-rotate, the lobes spreading widely; sepals not long-ciliate; fruiting pedicels about equaling 

 or usually shorter than the bracts (except in S. schizantha) ; racemes permanently erect. 



II. EUSYNTHYRIS. 



I. Plagiocarpus. 



Only species. 1- ^- reniformis. 



IL EUSYNTHYRIS. 



Leaf-blades palmately veined, orbicular-cordate to reniform, doubly toothed or lobed (incisions less than one- 

 fourth the depth of blade), with acute or rounded teeth; plants glabrous or finely pubescent. 



Corolla-lobes laciniately incised; capsule much wider than long, each cell nearly circular; sepals linear- 

 attenuate. 2. .S". schizantha. 



Corolla-lobes entire or slightly erose; capsule no wider than long, each cell elongated; sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate to oval. 



Teeth of leaf -blades acuminate-cuspidate; bracts nearly oval, relatively conspicuous, as are also the 2 

 or 3 pairs of pectinate bract-like leaves below the inflorescence; caps.ule 7-8 mm. wide, the trun- 

 cate apex widely notched. 3. S. stellata. 



Teeth of leaf-blades acute or obtuse; bracts nearly elliptic, less evident; bract-like leaves below in- 

 florescence usually fewer and less cut; capsule 5-6 mm. wide, the apex more narrowly notched. 



4. .$■. missurica. 



Leaf-blades bipinnatifid, the 9-15 primary segments deeply parted into lanceolate or linear-attenuate lobules; 

 stem and leaves lanose-canescent with soft white hairs. S. 5'. lanuginosa. 



