252 Scrophulariaceae 



mostly all opposite. Flowers blue or bluish- 

 purple in a loose panicle, with more or less 

 glandular-hairy branches; calyx glandular- 

 hairy, i of an inch long, deeply cleft into 

 lanceolate lobes; corolla slightly hairy, about f 

 of an inch long, funnel-form, slightly oblique. 

 In open ground and slopes in the Selkirks; 

 flowering in July. 



Veronica Smooth throughout; stems de- 



americana cumbent, rooting at the lower 



Schwein. nodes, 6 inches to 2 feet long. 



American Leaves oblong, ovate, or oblong- 



Brooklime. . 



lanceolate, all distinctly petioled, 

 sharply serrate with a wedge-shaped or 

 rounded base, obtuse or acute at the apex, 

 1-3 inches long, J-i inch broad. Flowers 

 in racemes on slender peduncles in the axils 

 of the leaves; corolla blue or nearly white, 

 striped with purple, nearly J of an inch 

 broad, rotate, with 4 unequal lobes. 



In brooks and swampy places in the Sel- 

 kirks, especially around Glacier; flowering 

 throughout the summer. 



