232 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



a red ring at the throat. Capsule longer than the calyx, ovoid, and 

 slightly conical. Style at least as long as the capsule. A very 

 variable species, according to situation, soil, etc. It possesses a 

 strong dye, which is such that a dried specimen in the herbarium 

 frequently makes an exact impression on the sheet of that above it. 



Stony places in the Alps and sub-Alps. June to August or 

 September. Prefers granite. 



Distribution. Carpathians, Sudetic Mountains, Eastern, Central, 

 and Western Alps; Vosges, Jura, Auvergne, Pyrenees, Corsica; 

 rare in Scotland ; Scandinavia. 



Veronica aphylla L. 



Stem naked, 1-2 inches high. Runners creeping, few-leaved, 

 hairy. Leaves ovate or obovate, crenate-serrate or nearly entire, 

 obtuse, with very short leaf-stalk, crowded almost into rosettes. 

 Flowers pale blue or mauve, very fugitive, in a single axillary or 

 apparently terminal, long-stalked, few-flowered, glandular, corym- 

 bose raceme, which is elongated when the fruit is ripe. Flower- 

 stalks erect in fruit, longer than the capsule. Capsule oval or 

 obovate, emarginate, longer than the 4-cleft calyx. 



Rocky, moist places on the high Alps up to 9000 feet, and not 

 descending to the sub-alpine regions. June to August. 



Distribution. Carpathians, Alps, Jura, Pyrenees, Caucasus, 

 Altai, N. America. 



Veronica bellidioides L. 



Much like V. alpina, but larger in all its parts, though inter- 

 mediate forms appear to occur. Stem 4-6 inches high, simple, 

 ascending, rough-haired like the entire plant, glandular above. 

 Leaves light green, hairy, obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire or 

 crenate ; the lowermost much larger, narrowed into a leaf-stalk, 

 and crowded almost into rosettes, persistent ; upper leaves sessile, 

 distant. Flowers in a roundish, crowded spike, elongated and looser 

 when in fruit. Flowers dull blue. Capsule oval or ovoid, slightly 

 emarginate. Seeds flat. 



Alpine and sub-alpine pastures and stony places. June to 

 August. 



Distribution. Carpathians ; Eastern, Central, and Western 

 Alps ; Pyrenees ; Moravia, Transylvania, N.E. Balkans. 



EUPHRASIA L. Eyebright. 



Small, erect herbs, partly parasitic on roots. Flowers small, in 

 dense leafy spikes. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip concave. Stamens 4. Anthers hairy. Capsule oblong. 

 Leaves opposite, lobed or incised. Many grow in the Alps and 

 sub- Alps, and only a very brief account of so critical a genus can 

 be given here. 



