290 SCROPIIULARIACE^E. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



herb", with tlic leaves mostly opposite or whorlcd ; the flowers blue, flesh-color, 

 or -white. (Name of doubtful derivation; perhaps the flower of *S(. Veronica.) 



1. Tall pcnnnials, with mostly whorled leaves: racemes terminal, dense, spiked: 

 ',- cert/ small: tube of the corolla longer than its limb and much longer than tlie 

 calyx. (Lcptandra, Nutt.) 



1. V. Vii'jniiaca, L. (CULVER'S-ROOT. CULVER'S PHYSIC.) Smooth 

 or rather downy ; stem simple, straight (2 -6 high) ; leaves whorled in fours 

 to sevens, short-petioled, lanceolate, pointed, finely serrate ; spikes panieled; 

 stamens much exsertcd. Rich woods, Vermont to Wisconsin, and southward: 

 often cultivated. July. Corolla small, nearly white. Pod oblong-ovate, not 

 notched, opening by 4 teeth at the apex, many-seeded. 



2. Perennials with opposite usually serrate leaves : flowers in axillary opposite ra- 

 cemes : corolla whcd-shapal (pale blue) : pod rounded, notched, rather many-seeded. 



2. V. AliagalliS, L. (WATER SPEEDWELL.) Smooth, creeping and 

 rooting at the base, then erect; leaves sessile, most of them clasping by a luart-*lutp<d 

 base, ovate-lanceolate, acute, serrate or entire (2' -3 long); pedicels spreading; 

 pud slightly notched. Brooks and ditches, especially northward; not so com- 

 mon as the next. June - Aug. Corolla pale blue with purple stripes. (Eu. ) 



3. V. Americana, Schweiuitz. (AMERICAN BROOKLIME.) Smooth, 

 decumbent at the base, then erect (8' -15' high); leaves mostly petioled, o 

 oblong, aeutish, serrate, thickish, truncate or slightly heart-shaped at the l.a-t.- ; 

 the slender pedicels spreading ; pod turgid. ( V. Beccabunga, Amer. authors. ) 



Brooks and ditches ; common northward. June -Aug. Flowers as in the 

 last ; the leaves shorter and broader. 



3. Perennials, ivith diffuse or ascending branches from a decumbent base: lfav<s 

 opposite: racemes axillary , from alternate axils: corolla wheel-shaped: pod strongly 

 Jltiltc-ncd, several-sf< </< d. 



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

 weak (6' -12' high) ; leaves sessile, linear, acute, remotely denticulate; racemes 1 or 

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

 reflexed pedicels; pod very flat, much broader than long, notched at both ends. 



Bogs; common northward. June -Aug. (Eu.) 



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

 trate, rooting at the base ; leaves short-petioled, obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, serrate; ntfi-nu-s dmscly many-flowered; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; pod 

 ohovate-triangular, broadly notched. Dry hills and open woods; certainly in- 

 digenous in many places, especially in the Alleghanies. July. (Eu.) 



$ 4. Leaves opposite : flowers in a terminal raceme, the lower bracts resembling the 



stem-leaves: corolla vJht&*hapedi pods flat, several-seeded. 



* Peranmob (mostly turning blackish in drying). 



6. V. alplna, L. (ALPINE SPEEDWELL.) Stem branched from the 



ivrt, simple (2' -6' high); leans elliptical, or the lowest rounded, entire 

 or toothed, /;.///, /"''//, f<-ir-jt<t; ,-><l, rroirdxl ; pod ohovatC, 



notehed. Alpine summits of the White Mountains, .New Hampshire. (Eu.) 



