290 SCROPHULARIA.CEJE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



herbs, with the leaves mostly opposite or whorled ; the flowers blue, flesh-color, 

 or white. (Name of doubtful derivation; perhaps the flower of St. Veronica.) 



1. Tall perennials, tvith mostly whorled leaves: racemes terminal, dense, spiked: 

 ^ bracts very small : tube of the corolla longer than its limb and much longer tfian the 

 calyx. (Leptandra, Nutt.) 



1. V. Virginica, L. (CULVER'S-ROOT. CULVER'S PHYSIC.) Smooth 

 or rather downy; stem simple, straight (2 -6 high) ; leaves whorled in fours 

 to sevens, short-petiolcd, lanceolate, pointed, finely serrate ; spikes panicled ; 

 Btamens much exserted. Rich woods, Vermont to Wisconsin, and southward : 

 often cultivated. July. Corolla small, nearly white. Pod oblong-ovate, not 

 notched, opening by 4 teeth at the apex, many-seeded. 



2. Perennials with opposite usually serrate leaves : flowers in axillary opposite ra- 

 cemes : corolla wheel-shaped (pale blue) : pod rounded, notched, rather many-seeded. 



2. V. AnagalliS, L. (WATER SPEEDWELL.) Smooth, creeping and 

 rooting at the base, then erect ; leaves sessile, most of them clasping by a heart-shaped 

 base, ovate-lanceolate, acute, serrate or entire (2' -3 long); pedicels spreading; 

 pod slightly notched. Brooks and ditches, especially northward ; not so com- 

 mon as the next. June -Aug. Corolla pale blue with purple stripes. (Eu.) 



3. V. -Americana, Schweinitz. (AMERICAN BROOKLIME.) Smooth, 

 decumbent at the base, then erect (8' -15' high); leaves mostly petioled, ovate or 

 oblong, acutish, sen-ate, thickish, truncate or slightly heart-shaped at the base ; 

 the slender pedicels spreading; pod turgid. (V. Beccabunga, Arner. authors.) 



Brooks and ditches ; common northward. June - Aug. Flowers as in the 

 last ; the leaves shorter and broader. 



3. Perennials, with diffuse or ascending branches from a decumbent base : leaves 

 opposite: racemes axillary, from alternate axils: corolla wheel-shaped : pod strongly 

 flattened, several-seeded. 



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

 weak (6' -12' high) ; leaves sessile, linear, acute, remotely denticulate ; racemes 1 or 

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

 reflexed pedicels ; pod very flat, much broader than long, notched at both ends. 



Bogs; common northward. June -Aug. (Eu.) 



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

 trate, rooting at the base ; leaves short-petioled, obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, serrate; racemes densely many-flowered; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; pod 

 obovate-triangular, broadly notched. Dry hills and open woods; certainly in- 

 digenous in many places, especially in the Alleghanies. July. (Eu.) 



$ 4. Leaves opposite : floivers in a terminal raceme, the lower bracts resembling the 



stem-leaves: corolla wheel-shaped: pods flat, several-seeded. 



* Perennials (mostly turning blackish in drying). 



6. V. alpina, L. (ALPINE SPEEDWELL.) Stem branched from the 

 base, erect, simple (2' -6' high); leaves elliptical, or the lowest rounded, entire 

 or toothed, nearly sessile; raceme hairy, few-flowered, crowded; pod obovate, 

 notched. Alpine summits of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. (Eu.) 



