Veronica. SCROPHULARIACE^. 287 



times oblong, very closely and sharply serrate, 3 to 5 Indies long : terminal spike G to 10 

 inches long, with commonly several shorter ones from upper axils : corolla white, some- 

 times bluish. — Spec. i. 9 (Tluk. Aim. t. 70, fig. 2) ; Hoffm. Comm. Goett. xv. t. 1; Thunb. 

 Fl. Jap. 20 ; Michx. Fl. i. 5. Eust(tcln/a alba & purpurea, & Callislachija V'mjinica, &c., Raf. 

 Leptandra Virfjinica, Nutt. 1. c. L. purpurea, Ilaf. Med. Bot. t. 59. Veronica Sibirica, L. 

 Spec. cd. 2, 1.12. V. Japonica, Steud. ; Miq. Prol. Jap. 50. — Moist woods and banks, 

 from Canada and Winipeg Valley to Alabama and Missouri: fl. smumer. (Japan and 

 E. Siberia.) 



§ 2. Veronica proper. Corolla, rotate with very short tube : stamens at the 

 upper sinuses : capsule from emarginate to obcordate-2-Iobe(l : seeds more or less 

 compressed anteriorly and posteriorly, or plano-convex, or the inner face hollowed : 

 low herbs. 



* Perennials, stoloniferous or creeping at base : racemes in the axils of the opposite leaves. 

 •i— Capsules inany-secded, turgid, orbicular and mainly emarginate : seeds merely compressed or 

 plano-convex : lower part of stems rooting in shallow water : racemes conunonly from ojjposite 

 axils, loose and elongated: pedicels slender, widely spreading: corolla pale blue, often purple- 

 striped. 



V. Anagallis, L. Glabrous, or inflorescence glandular-puberulent : leaves sessile by 

 broadish somewhat clasping base, and tapering gradually to the apex, oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire or obscurely serrate. — Fl. Dan. t. 903; Engl. Bot. t. 781. — Canada to Illinois, New 

 Mexico, and Brit. Columbia. (Eu., Asia.) 



V. Americana, Schwein. Glabrous : leaves all or mostly petioled, ovate or oblong, 

 truncate-subcordate at base, usually obtuse : pedicels more slender. — Herb. Hook. ; Benth. 

 in DC. 1. c. V. intermedia, Schwein. in Am. Jour. Sci. viii. 208, name only. V. Beccubumju 

 of older Am. authors. T'. AtuKjaUis, Bong. Veg. Sitk., &c. — Canada and N. Atlantic States 

 to New Mexico, California, and Alaska. 



-) i— Capsule sevcval-sccdcd, strongly compressed contrary to the partition: seeds very flat: 



racemes or spikes fronr alternate or sometimes from opposite axils: corolla mostly pale blue. 



V. SCUtellata, L. Glabrous : stem slender, ascending from a stoloniferous base, a span 

 or two high : leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, remotely denticulate (2 or ?> 

 inches long) : racemes several, filiform, flexuous : flowers scattered on filiform elongated 

 and widely spreading pedicels : capsule biscutelliform, being deejily emarginate at apex 

 and slightly at base. — Fl. Dan. t. 209; Engl. Bot. t. 782 ; Michx. I.e. — Swamps, Hud- 

 son's Bay and N. Atlantic States to British Columbia and N. California. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



V. Cha.-H/kdkys, L. Stem ascending from a creeping base, pubescent, at least in two lines : 

 leaves ovate or cordate, incisely crenate, subsessile : racemes loosely-flowered : pedicels 

 little longer than calyx : blue corolla rather large: capsule triangular-obcordate. — Engl. 

 Bot. t. 073. — Sparingly introduced into Canada, New York, and Benn. (Nat. from Eu.) 



V. officinalis, L. Soft-pubescent throughout : stems creeping and procumbent : leaves 

 short-ptti(ded or subsessile, obovate-oval or oblong, obtuse, serrate, pale (an inch long) : 

 spikes few, alternate or solitary, rarely from opposite axils, densely many-flowered: pedi- 

 cels shorter than calyx : capsule obovate-triangular or cuncate, with a broad and shallow 

 notch at the apex. — Fl. Dan. t. 248; Lam. BI. t. 13; Engl. Bot. t. 705; Michx. 1. c. — 

 Dry hills and open woods, New England to Michigan, and south to the mountains of N. 

 Carolina and Temicssec. (Eu., N. W. Asia.) 



V. Kanitchatica, L. f. Villous with somewhat viscid hairs: stems ascending, 1 to 3 

 inches long, bearing 3 to 5 pairs of leaves separated by short internodes : leaves to 18 

 lines long, broadly oval, obscurely serrate, contracted into a short petiole-like base : pedun- 

 cles 1 to 3, erect, surpassing the leaves, somewhat corymbosely 3-8-flowered : pedicels 

 about the length of calyx and bracts: corolla half inch or more in diameter, perhaps 

 bright blue.— Snppl. 83. V. riraudi/hra, of Gicrtn. in Comm. Act. Petrop. xiv. t. 18, not 

 of Don, &c. V. (iphi/lla, var. (Willd. Spec. i. 00; Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. ii. 5-50) fjrait- 

 dlflora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 470; Ledcb. Fl. Ross. iii. 245. — Kiska, one of the Aleutian 

 Islands, Dall. (Kamtschatka and adjacent islands.) 



* * Low perennials, with ascending or erect flowering stems terminated by a single raceme: 

 caulinc leaves a))ove passim; into bracts: se<Mls numerous, much compressed or somewhat menis- 

 coidal. (Si)ccimens disposed to turn dark in drying ) 



V. i-ruticul6sa, L., of Europe, is in Greenland, beyond our limits. 



