SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) 451 



lobes: corolla yellowish: stamens long-exserted. La Plata Mountains, Col- 

 orado. 



7. Synth yris reflexa Eastw. 1. c. 124. Glaucous and somewhat viscid; scape 

 erect, 1-2 dm. high, with broad, foliaceous bracts: leaves radical, 7 cm. long, 

 elliptical-oblong, obtuse, truncate or cuneate at base, finely crenate, thin in 

 texture; petioles 3-5 cm. long: bracts of the scape sessile, broadly ovate, acute, 

 entire, or serrulate near the apex : floral bracts ovate to linear, fringed with 

 long white hairs; flowers greenish-white, reflexed on pedicels 1 mm. long: 

 calyx of 2 divisions 5 mm. in diameter, orbicular, fringed like the bracts: 

 corolla of 2 parts united at base, the upper broad, somewhat hood-shaped, 

 5 mm. broad, 8 mm. long, sparingly fringed; the lower 2-cleft, divisions 

 laciniate, 2 mm. long: stamens 2; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla, 

 surpassing it by 4 mm. San Juan Mountains, Colorado. 



9. VERONICA L. 



Annual or perennial herbs with mostly opposite leaves and usually small 

 blue, pink, or white flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or spikes. Calyx 

 mostly 4-parted, the segments oblong or ovate. Corolla rotate, the tube very 

 short, the limb deeply and more or less unequally 4-lobed. Stamens 2; an- 

 thers obtuse, their cells confluent at the apex. Ovary 2-celled; style slender; 

 stigma capitate; ovules few or many in each cell. Capsule more or less 

 compressed, sometimes very flat, emarginate, obcordate, or 2-lobed. Seeds 

 smooth or rough, flat, plano-convex or excavated on the inner face. 



Small annual . . .-. . . . . . . 1. V. peregrina. 



Perennials. 



Flowers in terminal spikes. 



Capsule oblong, emarginate . . . . . . 2. V. alpina. 



Capsule orbicular, obcordate . . . . . . 3. V. serpyllifolia. 



Flowers racemose in the axils. 

 Leaves oblong to oval. 



Stem leaves sessile . . . . . . . 4. V. anagallis-aquatica. 



All the leaves petioled . . . . . . 5. V. americana. 



Leaves linear or nearly so . . . . . . . 6. V. scutellata. 



1. Veronica peregrina L. Sp. PI. 14. 1753. Low annuals, glabrous, or 

 above minutely pubescent or glandular; stem and branches erect. 1.5-3 dm. 

 high: leaves thickish; the lowest petioled and oblong or oval, dentate; the 

 middle sessile, oblong to linear-spatulate; the uppermost more bract-like 

 and entire: flowers in the axils of ordinary or bract-like, commonly alternate 

 leaves, very short-pediceled: capsule orbicular and slightly obcordate. 

 Throughout the continent. 



2. Veronica alpina L. 1. c. 11. Hirsute-pubescent or glabrate; stems slen- 

 der, simple, 8-16 cm. high, from slender creeping rootstocks: leaves mostly 

 shorter than the internodes, ovate to oblong, obscurely crenulate, 15-20 mm. 

 long, rounded, truncate or subcordate at base, sessile or nearly so: raceme 

 spiciform or subspicate, dense or interrupted below; pedicels erect, shorter 

 than the calyx, much shorter than the lanceolate bracts: corolla violet, the 

 limb 4-6 mm. in diameter, surpassing the stamens and short style: capsule 

 elliptical-obovate, emarginate. (V. Wormsjoldii R. & S.) In the high alti- 

 tudes and latitudes of northern America and Europe. 



3. Veronica serpyllifolia L. 1. c. 12. Pubescent or glabrous; stems creep- 

 ing and branching at base, the branches at length ascending, 5-25 cm. long: 

 leaves all opposite and petioled, or the upper ones sessile, oblong to oval or 

 ovate, 8-20 mm. long, crenulate to entire: flowers in short spicate racemes at 

 the ends of the stems or branches; pedicels equaling or longer than the calyx: 

 corolla pale blue with darker stripes, to almost white: stamens and style ex- 

 serted : capsule broader than high, obcordate, about 2 mm. high, equaling the 

 calyx; seeds flat. Wet places; in this and other continents. 



4. Veronica anagallis-aquatica L. 1. c. Perennial, glandular-pubescent 

 above; stems 2-9 dm. long, often somewhat branched: leaf -blades lanceolate 

 to oblong, 2-12 cm. long, acute, finely serrate or nearly entire, sessile and 



