268 SCROPHULARIXE.J:. [VERONICA. 



SECTION 2. Veronicas'trum. Leaves all opposite, or floral alternate. 



Flowers in terminal racemes. Capsule flat, valves adhering to the axis. 



Seeds plano-convex, turgid or compressed. 



4. V. arven'sis, L. ; annual, erect or ascending, pubescent, leaves 



ovate-cordate irregularly crenate-serrate, bracts alternate, pedicels short, 



capsule obcordate, seeds 6-7 in each cell nearly flat. 



Dry sandy, &c. places, ascends to near 2,000 ft. in Yorkshire ; fl. May-Oct. 

 branches 4-18 in., stiff, 2-fariously pubescent, often very long and simple. 

 Leaves ^-f in., mostly sessile, lower petioled, serratures few obtuse. Jirattt 

 alternate, often very crowded in dense leafy cylindric racemes, linear or 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire or obscurely lobed, exceeding the flowers. 



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narrow, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla minute, pale blue with a white eye. 

 Otye very short. Capsule ^ | in. broad, glandular, shorter than the sepals. 

 DISTKIB. Europe, N. Africa, Siberia, W. Asia ; introd. in N. America. 



5. V. ver'na, L. ; annual, erect, glandular-pubescent, leaves lobed or 

 pinnatiiid, bracts lanceolate entire, pedicels short, capsule deeply obcordate, 

 seeds 6-7 in each cell flat. 



Sandy fields in Norfolk and Suffolk; fl. May-June. Habit of 1'. onwftto, 

 but always small, 24 in., densely leafy and more glandular-pubescent : 

 flowers always much crowded ; capsule and seeds much the same in both. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, Siberia, W. Asia to N. W. India. 



6. V. serpyllifo lia, L. ; perennial, ascending, stem glandular -pubescent, 

 ]< M\VS subentire, racemes many-flowered, pedicels short erect, style as 

 long as the didymous flat capsule, seeds plano-convex minute. 



Fields, moist waste places, &c., ascends to 2,500 ft. in the Highlands; fl. 

 May-June. --Much branched from the base; branches 3-10 in. J,' <':-,> 



in., sessile, ovate-rotundate or oblong, obtuse, rather coriaceous. /.'< 

 in.; bracts alternate, quite entire, lower leaf-like, upper narrow. ,v. /,/.- 

 oblong-obovate, obtuse, ciliate, shorter than the corolla. Corolla % in. diam. , 

 white or lilac. Capsule shorter than the sepals, glabrous. DISTKIB. Europe 

 (Arctic), N. Africa, N. Asia, W. Asia to the Himalaya, N. America. 

 YAH. Itumifa'sa, Dicks, (sp.); decumbent, rooting at the nodes, leaves entire. 

 flowers few, corolla blue, capsule glandular-pubescent. Alps of Scotland. 

 Denbigh? and Northumberland? ascending to 3,700ft. in the Highlands. 



7. V. alpi'na, L. ; perennial, erect, glandular-pubescent above, leaves 

 ovate entire or serrulate, raceme corymbose few-flowered, bracts alternate, 

 pedicels short erect, capsule obovate notched, seeds plano-convex. 



Sj .rings and rills on the high Scotch Alps, rare, from 2,000 to 3,700 ft. ; fl. 

 July-Aug. Resembles V. terpyllifo'lia, but more erect; leaves rather 

 larger ; flowers fewer, in a denser raceme ; sepals narrower, subacute, halt ;u< 

 long as the obscurely notched capsule ; corolla dark blue ; style short, 

 and seeds larger. DISTRIB. Arctic, N. and Alpine Europe, Asia, and 

 America. 



8. V. saxat'ilis, L. ; perennial, decumbent, subglabrous, lower leaves 

 obovate, upper oblong, raceme subcorymbose few-flowered, bracts subop- 

 posite, pedicels long erect, style long, capsule oblong, seeds nearly flat. 

 High Scotch Alps of Clova, Braodalbane, Ben More and Ben Cruachan, 



