CHAPTER III. 



VERONICA. 



1. " THE Corolla of the Foxglove," says Dr. Lindley, 

 beginning his account of the tribe at page 195 of the 

 first volume of his 4 Ladies' Botany,' " is a large inflated 

 body (!), with its throat spotted with rich purple, and its 

 border divided obliquely into five very short lobes, of 

 which the two upper are the smaller ; its four stamens 

 are of unequal length, and its style is divided into two 

 lobes at the upper end. A number of long hairs cover 

 the ovary, which contains two cells and a great quantity 

 of ovules. 



" This" (sc. information) " will show you what is the 

 usual character of the Foxglove tribe ; and you will find 

 that all the other genera referred to it in books agree with 

 it essentially, although they differ in subordinate points. 

 It is chiefly (A) in the form of the corolla, (B) in the 

 number of the stamens, (C) in the consistence of the rind 

 of the fruit, (D) in its form, (E) in the number of the 

 seeds it contains, and (F) in the manner in which the 

 sepals are combined, that these differences consist." 



2. The enumerative letters are of my insertion other- 

 wise the above sentence is, word for word, Dr. Lindley 's, 

 and it seems to me an interesting and memorable one 



