722 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



SCOPARIA FLAVA Cham. & Schl. 



Root woody. Plant otherwise herbaceous, glabrous ; stems cespitose. 

 Leaves, branches and flowers whorled in 4*5, 3*5 or 2's. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, attenuate-petiolate, toothed. Upper leaves smaller, narrower, entire. 

 Peduncles glabrous. Calyx-lobes acute, pellucid-margined. 



(Chili; Brazil; Argentina); N. Patagon. (?) 



10. VERONICA Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, with small, blue to white flowers, having rotate, un- 

 equally 4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed, corolla, and 2 epipetalous stamens. Style 

 slender. Capsitle compressed. Seeds flat. 



Species about 200, in cold and temperate regions ; most in the Old 



World. 



i. V. ARVENSIS Linn. 



Pubescent annual. Stem becoming diffused. Lowest leaves opposite, 

 petioled, ovate and crenulate ; the upper becoming alternate, sessile and 

 narrower ; the uppermost small and entire, with a minute, short-pediceled 

 flower in the axil. Flowers blue to white. 



(Eurasia; nat. in N. Amer.) ; Magellan (Dusen). 



2. V. ELLIPTICA Forst. (K decussata Ait.) 



Glabrous shrub, with short-petioled, decussate, oval or oblong-elliptical, 

 entire, mucronate, shining leaves and short, axillary, few-(4~) flowered 

 racemes or corymbs. Calyx-segments 4, ovate, acute. Corolla rather large, 

 white, or flesh-colored, its lobes obovate. Capside broad-ovate. 



(New Zeal., Auckland and Campbell Is.); Magellan and throughout 

 Fuegia and W. Magellan ; Falklands. 



"The Hebe of Magellan," resembling a myrtle (now a favorite in culti- 

 vation ; luxuriant at Mucrus in Killarney). 



3. V. PEREGRINA Linn. 



Ascending, branching, annual herbs, glandular or glabrous. Lowest 

 leaves petiolate, opposite, oval-oblong, toothed; upper gradually more 

 sessile, narrower and entire. Floral-leaves narrow, entire, exceeding the 

 flowers. Peduncles very short. Capsule rounded, slightly emarginate. 



(In all warm countries ; in Amer. from Canada, by Mexico and the 

 Andes to Patagon.) 



At Puerto Madryn and E. Fuegia (Dusen). 



