300 SCROPHULARINE^. [VERONICA. 



Sandy fields, Norfolk and Suffolk, York ; fl. May-June. Stem 3-8 in., rigid, 

 brandies few. Leaves J-| in., long and broad, palmately 3-7-lobed ; lobes 

 entire, obtuse, oblong or linear ; floral subdigitate. Flowers few, subrace- 

 mose ; bracts 3-5-partite ; peduncles slender, ascending. Sepals subequal, 

 obtuse. Corolla ^ in. diam., dark blue. Capsule ^ in. diam., as broad as 

 long, deeply-lobed, glandular. Seeds rugose. DISTRIB. From Gothland 

 southd., N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, N.W. India. 



5. V. arven'sis, L. ; annual, erect or ascending, pubescent, leaves 

 ovate-cordate irregularly crenate-serrate, bracts alternate, pedicels short, 

 capsule obcordate, seeds 6-7 in each cell nearly flat. 



Dry sandy, &c., places, N". to Shetland ; ascends to near 2,000ft. in Yorkshire ; 

 Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-Get. 'Branches 4-18 in., stiff, 2-fariously 

 pubescent, often very long and simple. Leaves ^-f in., lower petioled, 

 serratures few obtuse. Bracts often in dense leafy cyliudric racemes, linear 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire or obscurely lobed, exceeding the 

 flowers. Sepals, narrow, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla minute, pale blue with a 

 white eye. Style very short. Capsule |-^ in. broad, glandular, shorter 

 than the sepals. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, Himalaya ; 

 introd in N. America. 



VAR. eocim'ia, Towns. ( ? var. perpusil'la, Bromf.), from Hants, is prostrate, 

 tufted, with shorter leaves bracts and sepals. 



6. V. ver'na, L. ; annual, erect, glandular-pubescent, leaves lobed or 

 piimatifid, bracts lanceolate entire, pedicels short, capsule deeply obcordate, 

 seeds 6-7 in each cell flat. 



Sandy fields, Norfolk and Suffolk; fl. May- June. Habit of V. arven'sis, 

 but always small, 2-4 in., densely leafy and more glandular-pubescent ; 

 flowers always much crowded ; capsule and seeds much the same in both. 

 DISTRIB. Europe. N. and "W. Asia, N.W. India. 



7. V. serpyllifo'lia, L. ; perennial, ascending, stem glandular-pubes- 

 cent, leaves subentire, racemes many-flowered, pedicels short erect, style 

 as long as the didymous flat capsule, seeds plano-convex minute. 



Fields, moist waste places, &c., N. to Shetland ; ascends to 2,500 ft. in the 

 Highlands ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-June. Much branched 

 from the base ; branches 3-10 in. Leaves |-f in., sessile, ovate-rot undate 

 or oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous. Raceme 1-4 in. ; bracts alternate, quite 

 entire, lower leaf-like, upper narrow. Flowers proterogynous or homo- 

 gamous. Sepals oblong-obovate, obtuse, ciliate, shorter than the corolla. 

 Corolla J in. diam., white or lilac. Capsule shorter than the sepals, 

 glabrous. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, Hima- 

 laya, N. America. V. humifu'sa, Dicks., is an alpine variety, decumbent, 

 rooting at the nodes, with leaves entire, flowers few, corolla blue, capsule 

 glandular-pubescent. Ascends to 3,700 ft. in the Highlands. 



8. V. alpi'na, L. ; perennial, erect, glandular-pubescent above, leaves 

 ovate entire or serrulate, raceme corymbose few-fld., bracts alternate, 

 pedicels short erect, capsule obovate notched, seeds plano-convex. 



