SCROPHULAR1NE/E 



the Alps. Occasionally flowers may be found which are 

 pure white or pink or carmine red. In L. concolor the 

 saffron mark is missing. 



L. petrxa, which is found in the southern Jura, differs 

 from the type in more upright habit, narrower leaves, 

 flower-spurs longer and more slender, corolla narrower 

 and longer. 



Veronica 



Eng. : Speedwell ; Pr. : Veronique ; Ger. : Ehrenpreis 



Few words of description are here needed ; for the 

 plant is familiar to everyone. Yet all are not aware that 

 the ' 'shrubby" Veronicas (not treated here) are from 

 New Zealand, while the "deciduous" Veronicas are 

 from the old world and are in many cases deciduous only 

 in appearance, being at the base sub-shrubs. Many which 

 are exquisitely beautiful are too strong for alpine work 

 and only fitted for the border, but good dwarf varieties 

 from outside the Alps, such as the Jlllioni (from the 

 western Alps) the pink caespitosa from Lebanon, peduncul- 

 aris (Asia Minor) and the European prostrata are well 

 worth growing. Of those described saxatilis and 

 fruticulosa are for the best and easiest. Propagation by 

 seed, division or cuttings is simplicity itself; every shoot 

 will root and creeping kinds root themselves. 



The botanical description of the genus and the species 

 found in the Alps is as follows flowers small, in axillary 

 or terminal racemes; lower cauline leaves opposite, upper 

 alternate and often bracteate ; calyx with four, seldom 

 five divisions ; corolla rotate, tube short, lobes four, the 

 upper broader than the others; stamens two. 



V. saxatilis* (PL LXXXV). Small plant with hard, 

 spreading branches, throwing up stems furnished with 

 ovate, glabrous, slightly toothed leaves ; flowers intense 



