nad. 
526 SCROPHULARIACEAX aYNTAHYRIS 
: VERONIOA 
S. rubra Benth. |. c. 425. Lanate with soft white wool: herbage more 
or less reddish-hued: leafy: radical leaves orhicular or ovate to oblong or 
iancevlate, crenulate, narrowed, truncate or cordate at base; the blade 1-2 
inches long, on petioles as long or longer; cauline ovate to lanceolate, 6-12 
lines long, sessile or nearly so: pedicels only 1-2 lines long: calyx-lobes 
ovate-lanceolate or oblong: corolla none: stamens inserted on the outside 
of the hypogynous disk: capsule turgid, emarginate, slightly longer than 
ic hiy ot On high open ridges, eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia and 
ebraska. : 
17 VERONICA L. Sp. 9. (1753.) 
Annual or perennial herbs (some exotic species shrubs or trees) 
with mostly opposite, rarely verticillate or alternate, leaves and 
usually small blue, pink or white flowers in terminal or axillary 
racemes or spikes, or rarely solitary. Calyx mostly 4-parted, 
sometimes 5-parted, the segments oblong or ovate. Corolla rotate, 
its tube very short, the limb deeply and more or less unequal- 
ly 4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed, the lower lobe commonly smallest. 
Stamens 2, divergent, inserted on either side at the base of the 
upper lobe of the corolla: anthers obtuse, their cells confluent at 
the apex. Ovary two-celled: style slender; stigma capitate: 
ovules few or many ineach cell. Capsule more or less compressed, 
sometimes very flat, emarginate, obcordate or two-lobed, loculi- 
cidally dehiscent. Seeds smooth or rough, flat, plano-convex or 
excavated on the inner face. 
* Perennial by stolons, or creeping base: racemes in the axils of 
opposite leaves. 
¥Y. Americana Schwein. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 468. ~ Glabrous 
throughout: stems decumbent, usually branched, rooting at the lower 
nodes, 6-30 inches long: leaves oblong to ovate or broadly lanceolate, 1-3 
inches long, sharply serrate, truncate, rounded or subcordate at base, all 
distinctly petioled: racemes peduncled, loose, elongated, 2-6 inches long: 
bractlets linear, 2-6 lines long: pedicels slender, 6 lines or more long: sep- 
als oblong, about a line long: corolla blue or nearly white, usually peetped 
ut 
with purple, about 2 lines broad: capsule nearly orbicular, compressed 
not very flat, emarginate, 11¢ lines high: seeds flat. Common in moist or 
wet places, Alaska to California and across the Continent. 
Y. scutellata L. Sp. 12. Glabrous or very sparingly hairy: stems 
slender, ascending from a stoloniferous base, 1-2 feet long: leaves sessile, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, remotely denticulate, 2-3 inches long: 
flowers scattered on filiform elongated and widely spreading pedicels: 
- corolla blue or purple, 2-3 lines broad: capsule broader than high, very 
flat, deeply emarginate at the summit, slightly so at base: seeds flat. In 
ponds and wet places, Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent. 
* * Low perennials with ascending orerect flowering stems termin- 
ated by a single raceme: cauline leaves above passing into bracts: seeds 
numerous, much compressed or meniscoidal. 
V. Cusickii Gray Syn. Fl. ii, 288. Glabrous: stems 3-6 inches high, 
erect, simple, from creeping rootstocks: leaves ovate to oblong, sessile or 
nearly so, entire, 6-10 lines long, the pairs crowded up to the naked ped- 
uncle of the 3-9-flowered raceme: pedicels slender, often as long as the 
flower and longer than the oblong-linear bracts: sepals lanceolate, about 
2 lines long: corolla blue or violet, 4-5 lines in diameter, with ample 
