DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 147 



I. VERON'ICA, Speedwell 



Low herbs with opposite leaves, and flowers in axillary 

 racemes or solitary. Calyx and corolla 4-parted, with the lobes 

 more or less unequal. Stamens 2. Pod inversely heart-shaped. 



a. V. America'na Schweinitz. Smooth herbs g■ro^Ying in wet 

 places, with the stems rooting* at the joints. Leaves Ovate or oblong, 

 oil petioles. Flowers numerous, small, bright blue with darker stripes. 

 Widely distributed. 



b. V. peregri'na L. Annual, 3-10 in. high, erect, with few 

 branches. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, entire or toothed. Flowers on short pedicels in the leaf 

 axils. Corolla very small, white. Capsule many-seeded. Common, 

 apparently an introduced weed. 



n. SCROPHULA'RIA, Figwort, Bee-plant 



Perennial herbs with opposite leaves, and small flowers in 

 loose cymes arranged in a terminal panicle. Calyx 5-cleft, 

 with broad, rounded lobes. Corolla with a {/lobular tube and 

 5 lobes ; four are erect and the fifth turned down or spreading. 

 Stamens ^ in 2 pjairs, shorter than the lobes of the corolla and 

 inserted low on the tube. A rudiment of a fifth stamen 

 appears in the form of a scale on the upper side of the 

 throat of the corolla. 



S. Califor'nica Cham. Californiax Bee-plant. Stems 2-5 ft. 

 high, nearly smooth. Leaves oblong-ovate, usually cordate at base, 

 coarsely doubly toothed or incised. Flowers brownish purple, less 

 than half an inch long, the rudimentary stamen narrowly wedge- 

 shaped or spatulate. The honey-glands produce a large quantity 

 of honey which can usually be seen within the corolla tube. This 

 is widelv distributed and common. 



m. COLLIN'SIA 



Low annual herbs with opposite leaves, and flowers some- 

 what resembling pea blossoms. Corolla 2-lipped, until the 

 lower lipj 3-lobed and the middle lobe compressed at the sides, 

 including the style and stamens ; tube short, with a protuber- 

 ance at the base 07i the tipper side, the mouth closed by an 



