6 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



10. ORNUS. Persoon. (Flowering-ash.) 



CalLv 4-\)ii\'t{^(\. Coro//a 4 -parted; petals long 

 and ligulate. Filaments long. J\!ut winged. 



A tiee with opposite, and unequally pinnated leaves, 

 (like the ^sh to which it is nearly related. ) Flowers in 

 terminal panicles. 



Species. 1 O..???^^?/^^??^, (scarce) not very distinct from 

 the Ormis Kiivopcea^ (or Fraxiuus ormis of Lin.) 



II Fruit a capsule. Corolla moiiopetalous, irregular, 



11. VERONICA, i. (Speedwell.) 



Calix 4 -parted. Corolla rotate, 4-lobed, une- 

 qual, the losver segment narrower. Capsule 2- 

 celled, obcordate; seeds few. 



Herbaceous, or more rarely sufPruticose; many species 

 have opposite and sometimes ternate leaves, rarely entii'e, 

 inostly crenate, toothed or deeply serrate, also pinnatifld 

 or rarely digitately divided; flowers in spikes or corymbose- 

 racemes, which are either axillary or terminal: a smaller 

 number of species have alternate leaves, and sohtary ax- 

 illary flowers; very rarely the calix is 5-parted. hi the V. 

 rotundifoUa of Peru the flowei-s are sometiines 5-cleft, 

 with 4 stamina; in the V- iiudicauUs of the European Alps 

 the capsule is ovate and entire! 



A genus cliiefly confined to Kurope, many of the spe- 

 cies are entirely alpine, others have become natural- 

 ized throughout that continent, in Northern Asia, and now 

 profuse ly spread over North America. A s ngle anomalous 

 species is described as growing in Peru- The V. decussata 

 of Linnxus, discovered by Commerson at the straits of 

 Magellan, a shrub with evergreen leaves called Hebe by the 

 discoverer, and described by Jussieu with an ovate capsule, 

 can scarcely be conceived as a legitimate species of Vero- 

 nica. 5 other species of this genus were discovered in 

 2^e\v -Zealand by Forster, 



Species. I. V. officinalis. '2. * renifff'i'^is. 3. serpiUiJoUa. 

 4. Beccabunga. 5 Annagallis. 6. sciitellata. — (Peduncles 

 1. flowered — ) 7 . agreatis- 8- arvensis. 9.ptregrina. As\et 

 there has not been a single genuine species of this genus 

 discovered in N. America that is not also common lo Eu- 

 rope and Nortlicrn Asia, if we e\ce})t the V. reniformis of 

 Pursh, which if distinct, may probably also exist in Sibe- 

 ria. Of the 9 species here enumerated; No.'j. 1, 3, 7, 8; and 



