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H- H- Capsule strongly flattened, several-seeded. 



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

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

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

 reflexed pedicels ; capsule very flat, much broader than long, notched at both 

 ends or didymous. Bogs, common. June -Aug. (Eu., Asia.) 



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

 trate, rooting at base,; leaves short-petioled , obovate-elliptical or wedge-obi on<j, 

 obtuse, serrate; racemes densely man y -flower ed ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; 

 capsule obovate-triangular, broadly notched. Dry hills and open woods, N. 

 Eng. to Mich, , and southward. July. (Eu., Asia.) 



V. CHAM^DRYS, L. Stem pubescent, at least in two lines, ascending from 

 a creeping base; leaves subsessile, ovate or cordate, incisely crenate; racemes 

 loosely-flowered ; pedicels little longer than calyx ; capsule triangular-obcor- 

 date. Sparingly introduced into Canada, N. Y., and Penn. (Adv. from Eu.) 



* * Leaves opposite ; flowers in a terminal raceme ; the lower bracts leaf-like ; 



capsules flat, several-seeded. Perennials (mostly turning blackish in drying). 



6. V. alpina, L. Stem branched from the base, erect, simple (2 -12' 

 high) ; leaves elliptical, or the lowest rounded, entire or toothed, nearly sessile ; 

 raceme hairy, few-flowered, crowded ; capsule obovate, notched. Alpine sum- 

 mits of the White Mts. (Eu., Asia.) 



7. V. serpyllifblia, L. (THYME-LEAVED SPEEDWELL.) Much branched 

 at the creeping base, nearly smooth ; branches ascending and simple (2 - 4' high) ; 

 leaves ovate or oblong, obscurely crenate, 'the lowest petioled and rounded, the 

 upper passing into lanceolate bracts ; raceme loose ; corolla whitish, or pale 

 blue, with deeper stripes ; capsule rounded, broader than long, obtusely notched. 

 Roadsides and fields, common; introduced and indigenous. May -July 

 (Eu., Asia.) 



* # # Annuals ; floral leaves like those of the stem (or somewhat reduced), the 



flowers appearing to be axillary and solitary, mostly alternate ; corolla shorter 

 than the calyx. 

 - Flowers short-pedicelled ; floral leaves reduced ; corolla shorter than the calyx. 



8. V. peregrina, L. (NECKWEED. PURSLANE SPEEDWELL.) Glan- 

 dular-puberulent or nearly smooth, erect (4 9' high), branched; lowest leaves 

 petioled, oval-oblong, toothed, thickish, the others sessile, obtuse; the upper 

 oblong-linear and entire, longer than the almost sessile (whitish) flowers ; cap- 

 sule orbicular, slightly notched, many-seeded. Waste and cultivated grounds, 

 in damp soil; throughout U. S., and almost cosmopolite. April- June. 



V. ARVENSIS, L. (CORN SPEEDWELL.) Simple or diffusely branched 

 (3 - & high), hairy ; lower leaves petioled, ovate, crenate ; the uppermost sessile, 

 lanceolate, entire ; capsule inversely heart-shaped, the lobes rounded. Culti- 

 vated grounds, Atlantic States to Tex., rather rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



-t- - Flowers long-pedicelled in axils of ordinary leaves; seeds cup-shaped. 



V. AGRESTIS, L. (FIELD SPEEDWELL.) Leaves round or ovate, crenate- 

 toothed, the floral somewhat similar ; calyx-lobes oblong ; flower small; ovary 

 many-ovuled, but the nearly orbicular ana sharply notched capsule 1 -2-seeded. 

 - Sandy fields, N. Brunswick to La., near the coast. (Adv. from Eu.) 



V. BuxBAtiMii, Tenore. Leaves round or heart-ovate, crenately cut-toothed 

 (f - 1' long) ; flower large (nearly ' wide, blue) ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, widely 



