VERONICA. 



V. Kotschyana makes a tufted bush to the goodly height of 2 or 3 

 inches, with many weakly-rising stems, and packed and more or 



lapping lit by, upright, and 



rolled over along t! about an inch 



and a half long, well-furnished with pink stars of flower in June. It 

 comes from the alpine and high-alp s of Taurus. 



V. fa It forms a neat mass 



of 2 or 3 inches, and its especially large blossoms of brilliant blue stand 

 off from the main spire on longer and more widespread foot-stalks. 

 (Mountains of Armenia and North Persia.) 



V. laciniata is a stalwart of little moment for the rock-garden, 

 living in Siberia, and attaining 18 inches, with spikes of blue through- 

 out the later summer. 



V. Ian uginosa huddles in tight woolly tuffets on the high Himalayan 

 B. It has minute round leaves, woolly all over, and packed into 

 a woolly cushion of 2 or 3 inches high, in which sit the small blue 

 blossoms with their uppermost lobe comparatively large and round. 



V. latifolia is a common sight across Central Europe — a tall leafy 

 rank weed with erect axillary sprays of blue in early summer. 



V. l".r'! has do merit. 



V. longifolia ranges across Europe to America. It is one of the 

 spike-flowered section, and a handsome plant of 18 inches or so, nobly 

 showy for the border, with its abundant cat's-tail spires of lilac-purple ; 

 with innumerable garden varieties in shades of white, rose, and violet. 

 It especially likes a rather damp place, and blooms in June and July. 



V. macroetemon lives in the Arctic regions, where it repeats the 

 packed neat charm of V. nummular la, but the huddled tiny rounded 

 upper leaves on the tiny wandering shoots are saw-edged or scalloped, 

 the upstanding spike of an inch or two is downy, and bears its blue 

 flowers in a rounded head that afterwards lengthens out. 



V. mdi88aefdlia is like a Germander Speedwell of 2 or 3 feet high. 



V. minuta makes a most lovely carpet, after the dense fashion of 



V. repens, but that the flowers are bright blue. The species stands 



V. tdcpMifdia, but the leaves are not fleshy nor brittle, while, 



on the oth . . hey are much more slender. It will only be found, 



like Prometheus, on the highest summits of Caucasus. 



V. montana grows about 4 inches high, and has blooms of a dim 

 - ae. 



V. monticola comes from the Caucasus, and is a really valuable 

 plant iu the terminal-spiked group of V. incana. This stands about 

 8 inches high, with lo: i oi brilliant az ire in June. 



V. mvltiju with leaves cut into 



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