Lie POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
says, the world was created ‘when spring’s mild influence 
made all nature gay.” Yet all this profuse loveliness lasts 
but a short time, and the botanist must make the best use 
of its fleeting days, in treasuring the beautiful plants strewed 
around in such delightful profusion. Many that are highly 
interesting may be added to the collection, and most of them 
not difficult to determine either as regards genus or species. 
DIANDRIA. MoNoGYNIA. 
COROLLIFLORZ. SCROPHULARIACEA, 
VERONICA. (SPEEDWELL.) 
Generic Character. See page 41. 
The flowers of this genus grow in three different ways; 
some have a long spike of flowers proceeding from the top 
of the plant, as Veronica serpyllifolia (see p. 80) ; others have 
the spikes proceeding from the sides, as the V. montana ; 
and V. hederifolia (see p. 42), the last division, has the 
flowers solitary, not growing in.spikes. 
VERONICA OFFICINALIS. Common Speedwell. The species 
now found belongs to the middle division, and the flowers 
