230 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Veronica Beccabunga L. Brooklime. 



A stout, glabrous plant with hollow stems, broad, oval, serrate, 

 shining leaves and small bright blue flowers in axillary panicles. 



Ditches, damp mountain-sides, and wet places generally from 

 the plains to about 5000 feet. May to August. 



Distribution. Europe, Northern and Western Asia, Himalaya, 

 Japan, N. Africa. 



Veronica montana L. 



Foliage very similar to that of the Germander Speedwell, but 

 more glabrous. Stem trailing, rooting at the nodes. Leaves ovate- 

 cordate, on long stalks. Racemes loose, slender, and with few 

 flowers, which are pale blue or mauve. Capsule very flat, orbicular, 

 ciliate. 



Moist mountain woods. May to August. 



Distribution. Temperate Europe, Corsica, Algeria. British. 



Veronica urticcefolia Jacq. (Plate XVI.) 



Stem erect, roundish, 10-16 inches high, hairy like the leaves. 

 Leaves sessile, ovate, acute, from a cordate base ; upper ones 

 acuminate, all sharply serrate, entire at the base. Racemes 

 opposite, loose. Peduncle shorter than the leaf. Pedicels erect, 

 usually longer than the linear-lanceolate bracts, patent when fruit 

 is ripe. Flowers pale pink or mauve. Capsule erect, compressed, 

 nearly globular, slightly emarginate, twice as long as the calyx. 



Shady declivities and woods in the Alps and lower mountains. 

 June to August. 



Distribution. Carpathians ; Eastern, Central, and Western 

 Alps ; Pyrenees, Jura ; Central and Southern Europe from Spain 

 to Turkey. 



Veronica officinalis L. 



Stems creeping, much-branched, rooting at the nodes, usually 

 about 6-8 inches high. Leaves obovate or oblong, toothed, and 

 hairy. Racemes or spikes axillary, hairy. Flowers nearly sessile, 

 rather small, pale blue or lilac. Capsule obovate or obcordate. 



Woods and dry, bushy pastures in the plains and lower mountains. 

 Sometimes up to 5000-6000 feet in Savoy. June to September. 



Distribution. Europe, Western Asia, N. America. (British.) 



Veronica Teucrium L. 



Plant 6-12 inches high, covered with greyish pubescence, and 

 with an almost woody rootstock. Stems prostrate or ascending. 

 Leaves sub-sessile, oblong or lanceolate, strongly toothed. Flowers 

 blue, large, in axillary and opposite spikes, numerous. Calyx hairy, 

 with 5 very unequal segments. Capsule oboval, hairy, at length 

 longer than the calyx. Style rather longer than the capsule. 



