F1QWORT FAMILY. ScrophuJarlacex. 



feet high. In meadows and moist woods. Not recorded 

 in Vermont by Brainerd and Eggleston. N. Y., south 

 to Ala. , and west to Mo. and Neb. 



A perennial species with a hollow, 



smooth stem, which creeps over the 

 Veronica ground and finally becomes erect and 



Americana branching. The leaves long-oval or ob- 

 Lavender=biue long lance-shaped, light green, slightly 

 Se* tember toothed, with short, flat stems. The tiny 



flower is lavender-blue violet-striped, with 

 a white centre ; the corolla four-lobed, the lower lobe 

 narrower than the others, the two divergent stamens 

 light purple. The frail, quickly fading flowers are set 

 on slender stems, in loose terminal spikes. 6-15 inches, 

 high. On banks of streams and in damp places ; com- 

 mon from Me., south to Pa., and westward. Found in 

 the Catskill Mountains near the Mountain House. 



A similar species. The flowers on rather 

 ll zig-zag stems, and with linear, acute, 

 Veronica shallow-toothed leaves, slightly clasping 



scutellata the stem. Fruit capsule flat, notched, and 



Lavender=blue broader than it is long. 6-20 inches high. 



Mav ~ In swamps, from Me., south to southern 



September __ ^ r __. T , . ^ i 



N. Y., and west to Minn. Local in Cal. 



Var. villosa is a soft-hairy form northward N. Y. to Wash. 



A woolly species with prostrate but 

 Common T i 



Speedwell finally erect stem. Leaves light green, 



Veronica oval or obovate, toothed, and narrow at 



officinalis the base. The flowers light lavender, 



Light lavender striped with light violet . coro lla four- 

 June-August ,.-*. mi n 



lobed. Ine flowers are set closely on slen- 

 der spikes, rising from the leaf-angles. 3-10 inches high. 

 Common in dry fields and wooded uplands. Me., south 

 to S. Car., west to Mich. Also in Europe and Asia. 



A small mountain species with the same 



time of bloom ; the slender stem generally 

 unalaschccnsis simple, the leaves indistinctly toothed or 



toothless, elliptical or ovate. Lavender 

 flowers in short clusters. 2-12 inches high. On the high 

 mountains of New Eng. , also in the Rockies. The seed- 

 capsules of Veronica are in effect notched. 

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