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-*- -i- Capsule strongly flattened, several-seeded. 



4. V. SCUtellata, L. (MARSH SPEEDWELL.) Smooth, slender and weak 

 (6- 12' high) ; leaves sessile, linear, acute, remotely denticulate ; racemes several ', 

 very slender and zigzag; flowers few and scattered, on elongated spreading or 

 reflexed pedicels ; capsule very Hat, much broader than long, notched at both 

 ends or didymous. Bogs, common. June -Aug. (Eu., Asia.) 



5. V. officinalis, L. (COMMON SPEEDWELL.) Pubescent ; stem pros- 

 trate, rooting at base; leaves skort-petioled, obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong, 

 obtuse, serrate; racemes densely many flowered ; pedicels shorter than thecalvx ; 

 capsule obovate-triangular, broadly notched. Dry hills and open woods, N. 

 Eng. to Mich. , and southward. July. (Eu., Asia.) 



V. CHAM^EDRYS, L. Stem pubescent, at least in two lines, ascending from 

 a creeping base; leaves subsessile, ovate or cordate, incisely crenate; racemes 

 loose! y-floivered ; pedicels little longer than calyx ; capsule triangular-obcor- 

 date. Sparingly introduced into Canada, N. Y., and Penn. (Adv. from Eu.) 



* * Leaves opposite ; flowers in a terminal raceme; the lower bracts leaf-like; 



capsules flat, several-seeded. Perennials (mostly turning blackish in drying). 



6. V. alpilia, L. Stem branched from the base, erect, simple (2-12' 

 high) ; leaves elliptical, or the lowest rounded, entire or toothed, nearly sessile ; 

 raceme hair y , few-flowered , crowded ; capsule obovate, notched. Alpine sum- 

 mits of the White Mts. (Eu., Asia.) 



". V. serpyllifolia, L. (THYME-LEAVED SPEEDWELL.) Much branched 

 at the creeping base, nearly smooth ; branches ascending and simple ('2 - 4' high) ; 

 leaves ovate or oblong, obscurely crenate, the lowest petioled and rounded, the 

 upper passing into lanceolate bracts; raceme loose; corolla whitish, or pale 

 blue, with deeper stripes ; capsule rounded, broader than long, obtusely notched. 



Roadsides and fields, common; introduced and indigenous. May -July 

 (Eu., Asia.) 



* * * Annuals ; floral leaves like those of the stem (or somewhat reduced), the 



flowers appearing to be axillary and solitary, mostly alternate ; corolla shorter 

 than the calyx. 

 i- Flowers short-pedicelled ; floral leaves reduced ; corolla shorter than the calyx. 



8. V. peregrina, L. (NECKWEED. PURSLANE SPEEDWELL.) Glan- 

 dular-puberuleut or nearly smooth, erect (4-9' high), branched; lowest leaves 

 petioled, oval-oblong, toothed, thickish, the others sessile, obtuse ; the upper 

 oblong-linear and entire, longer than the almost sessile (whitish) flowers ; cap- 

 side orbicular, slightly notched, many-seeded. Waste and cultivated grounds, 

 in damp soil; throughout U. S., and almost cosmopolite. April -June. 



V. ARVEXSIS, L. (CORN SPEEDWELL.) Simple or diffusely branched 

 (3 - 8' high), hairy ; lower leaves petioled, ovate, crenate ; the uppermost sessile, 

 lanceolate, entire ; capsnle inversely heart-shaped, the lobes rounded. Culti- 

 vated grounds, Atlantic States to Tex., rather rare. (Xat. from Eu.) 



-i- -t- Flowers long-pedicelled in axils of ordinary leaves ; seeds cup-shaped. 



V. AGRESTIS, L. (FIELD SPEEDWELL.) Leaves round or ovate, crenate- 

 toothed, the floral somewhat similar ; calyx-lobes oblong ; flower small; ovary 

 mni/-ovuled, but the nearly orbicular and sharply notched capsule 1 -2-seeded. 



Sandy fields, N. Brunswick to La., near the coast. (Adv. from Eu.) 



V. BuxB.\t'Mii, Tenore. Leaves round or heart-ovate, crenately cut-toothed 

 (| - 1' long) ; flower large (nearly ^' wide, blue) ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, widely 



