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* * Herbs, growing icild, or thosp of lite Jirst subdiviniun {■*- ) cultivated 

 in gardens. 



-I- Spikes or dense spike-like racemes terminnting the erect stem or branches 

 and often clustered. % 



V. spicafa, Linn. Erect from a spreading base, l°-2° high, with 

 opposite or wiiorleil leaves whicli are narrow-oblong or oblanceolate and 

 serrate, iietiolate ; flowers bright blue, the tube shorter than the calyx; 

 stamens long-exserted. Eu. 



I/, paniculata, Linn. (V. ami:tuvstin,v). Mostly taller; leaves opposite 

 or in o's, lanceolate and acute, crenate-serrate or jagged, narrow at base 

 and petiolate or sub-sessile ; flowers blue in long, loose spikes or racemes. 

 Eu. 



y. longifdiia, Linn. The form in cult, as var. sijhsessilis, from 

 Japan, has ovate leaves sessile or nearly so, which are sharply toothed 

 and broad at the base ; flowers very many in long, erect or spreading 

 spikes, clear blue. 



V. Virginica, Linn. f'li.vEu's koot. Wild in rich woods from Vt., 

 AV. and 8.; remarkable for the tube of the small whitish corolla longer 

 than the acutish lobes, and much longer than the calyx ; simple stems 

 2°-G° high, bearing whorls of lanceolate or lance-ovate pointed finely 

 serrate leaves ; spikes dense and clustered. 



-I- t- Bacemes in the axils of the opposite leares; stems creeping or pro- 

 cumbent at base, but above ascending ; corolla, us in all the following, 

 strictly wheel-shaped. % 



++ Water Speedwells or Brooklime, in water or icet ground, smooth 

 and with pale blue (sometimes darker striped) flowers on slender spread- 

 ing pedicels. 



— Pod turgid. 



V. Anagallis, Linn. Tn water N. ; leaves lance-ovate acute, sessile by 

 a heart-shaped base, :2'-3' long ; pod slightly notched, many-seeded. 



V. Americana, Schw. In brooks and ditches ; leaves mostly petioled, 

 ovate or oblong, serrate ; flowers on more slender pedicels, and pod more 

 turgid than in the foregoing. 



= = Pod strongl II flattened. 



V. scutellata, Linn. In bogs N. ; slender, with linear slightly toothed 

 sessile leaves, only 1 or 2 very slender zigzag racemes, few long-pediceled 

 pale flowers ; and pod deeply ni)tched at both eiuls, broader than long, 

 few-seeded . 



++ t-+ In dnj ground, pubescent, with light blue floirers in spike-like 

 raccnifs. 



V. officinalis, Linn. Common Speedwell. Spreading or creeping, 

 low ; leaves wedge-oblong or obovale, serrate, short-petioled ; pedicels 

 shorter than calyx; pod wedge-obcordate, several-seeded. N. Eng., W. 

 and S. 



t- t- -^ Paceme loose, terminating the leafij low stem or branches, or the 

 small flowers in the axils of the gradualhj decreasing leaves. 



-^ 11 Fliiwcrs in a termiiial raceme. 



V. serpyllifdlia, Linn. Creeping or spreading on the ground ; with 

 simple flowering stems ascending 2'-4', smooth ; leaves roundish, small 

 almost entire ; corolla pale blue or wliitish with darker stripes, longer than 

 the calvx. Fields and roadsides. 



