282 SCROPHTJLARIACE^E. (FIG WORT FAMILY.) 



3. S. plantaginea, Benth. A foot or less high, rather stout : tomentulose- 

 pubescent when young : radical leaves oblong, rarely cordate, usually obtuse 

 at base, 2 to 4 inches long : scape very leafy-bracteate : spike 3 to 5 inches long : 

 bracts and ovate sepals glabrate and villous-ciliate : corolla purplish ; its upper 

 lip little exceeding the calyx, twice the length of the 2 to 3-lobed lower one. 

 Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, in subalpine woods. 



*- -t- Corolla wanting : stamens inserted on the outside of the hypogynous disk. 



4. S. rubra, Benth. A span to a foot or more high, rather stout, more 

 or less pubescent, and the spike tomentose, 2 to 5 inches long : radical leaves 

 ovate or obscurely cordate, 1 to 3 inches long ; the cauline similar, but small 

 and sessile: sepals oblong. From Montana and N. Utah westward into 

 Oregon and Washington Territory. 



10. VERONICA, L. SPEEDWELL. BROOKLINE. 



Leaves opposite or verticillate or the upper alternate, as are the bracts: 

 flowers small, racemose, spicate, or solitary in the axils, never yellow. 



* Perennials, stoloniferous or creeping at base: racen.es in the axils of the opposite 



leaves. 



t- Capsules turgid, orbicular : seeds merely compressed : racemes commonly from 

 opposite axils : corolla pale blue, often purple- striped. 



1. V. Anagallis, L. Glabrous, or inflorescence glaridular-puberulent : 

 leaves sessile by broadish somewhat clasping base, and tapering gradually to the 

 apex, oblong-lanceolate, entire or obscurely serrate. Across the continent, 

 mainly to the northward. 



2. V. Americana, Schwcin. Glabrous : leaves all or mostly petioled, 

 ovate or oblong, truncate-subcordate at base, usually obtuse : pedicels more 

 slender. About the same range as the last. 



-i- -i- Capsules strongly compressed contrary to the partition : seeds very Jlat : 

 racemes from alternate or sometimes from opposite axils : corolla mostly pale 

 blue. 



3. V. SCUtellata, L. Glabrous : stem slender, a span or two high : 

 leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, remotely denticulate : racemes 

 several, filiform, flexuous : flowers scattered or filiform and widely spreading 

 pedicels : capsule deeply emarginate at apex and slightly at base. Across 

 the northern part of the continent. 



* * Low perennials, with ascending or erect flowering stems terminated by a single 



raceme: cauline leaves above passing into bracts. 



4. V. alpina, L. A span or rarely a foot high, hirsute-pubescent or gla- 

 brate: leaves sessile, ovate to oblong, crenulate-serrate or entire, ^ to 1 inch long: 

 raceme spiciform or subcnpitate, dense, or interrupted below : corolla blue or 

 violet : capsule elliptical-obovate, emarginate. Alpine regions of the Rocky 

 Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and White Mountains, and also far northward. 



5. V. serpyllifolia, L. Glabrous or puberulent : stems creeping or 

 "branching at base, with flowering summit ascending 3 to 9 inches high : leaves 

 oval or roundish, entire or crenulate, half-inch or less long ; the lower short-petioled ; 

 the upper sessile and passing into bracts of the leafy spiciform raceme : corolla 



