SCROPHULARIACEJE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 303 
flowers axillary or in terminal racemes, blue, flesh-color, or white. 
(Name of doubtful derivation; perhaps the flower of St. Veronica.) 
§ 1. Leptandra, Nutt.— Tall perennials , with mostly whorled leaves: 
racemes terminal , dense , spiked: bracts very small: tube of the co¬ 
rolla longer than its limb and much longer than the calyx. 
^ irgfinica, L. (Tall Speedwell. Culver’s-root.) 
Smooth or rather downy; stem simple, straight; leaves whorled in 
fours to sevens, short-petioled, lanceolate, acute or pointed, finely 
serrate ; spikes panicled, crowded; stamens much exserted. — Rich 
moist places, Vermont to Michigan and southward : often cultivated. 
July. — Plant 2°-6° high. Corolla small, nearly white. Pod ob¬ 
long-ovate, not notched, opening by 4 teeth at the apex, many-seeded. 
§ 2. BeccabiJnga, Benth. — Perennials icith opposite usually serrate 
leaves : flowers in axillary opposite racemes: corolla wheel-shaped 
with a very short tube : pod notched , rather many-seeded. 
2. V. AnagalliS, L. (Water Speedwell.) Smooth, creep¬ 
ing and rooting at the base, then erect; leaves sessile , most of them, 
clasping by a heart-shaped base , ovate-lanceolate , acute, serrate or en¬ 
tire; pedicels spreading; pod orbicular, slightly notched. — Brooks 
and ditches, not so common as the next. June - Aug. — Leaves 2' - 
3 1 long. Corolla pale blue with purple stripes. 
3. V. Americana, Schweinitz. (American Brooklime.) 
Smooth, decumbent at the base, then erect; leaves mostly petioled, 
ovate or oblongs acutish, serrate, thickish, truncate or slightly heart- 
shaped at the base; the slender pedicels spreading; pod rounded, tur¬ 
gid, notched. (V. Beccabfinga, Amer. authors.) — Brooks and ditches, 
common. June - Aug. — Stems S' - 15' high. Flowers as in the last; 
the leaves shorter and broader. 
§ 3. Cham^drys, Benth. — Perennials , with diffuse or ascending 
branches from a decumbent base : leaves opposite : racemes axillary , 
from alternate axils: corolla wheel-shaped: pod strongly flattened , 
several-seeded. 
4. V. SCUtellata, L. (Marsh Speedwell.) Smooth , as¬ 
cending , slender and weak ; leaves sessile , linear , acute , remotely den¬ 
ticulate ; racemes very slender and zigzag, with the flowers few and 
scattered , on elongated spreading or reflexed pedicels; pod flat, much 
broader than long, notched at both ends, appearing double shield¬ 
shaped. — Bogs, common northward. June - Aug. — Plant 8' - 12' 
high, bearing 1 or 2 lateral racemes : corolla bluish. 
5. V. Officinalis, L. (Common Speedwell.) Pubescent 
throughout; stem prostrate, rooting at the base; leaves short-petioled, 
obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong , obtuse , serrate; racemes densely 
many-flowered; pedicels shorter than the calyx; pod obovate-trian- 
gular, broadly notched. — Dry hills and woods, rare in the Northern 
