286 SCROPHULARIACE^. Synthyris. 



King, 227, t. 22, wrongly depicted with 2 styles ! — Utah, in Wahsatch Mountains at 9,000 

 feet, Watson. S. Idaho, on mountains near Virginia City, Hayden. 



Var. laciniata. Leaves all of roundish or reniform outline, and laciniately many- 

 cleft to the middle or less. — Fish-Lake Mountain, Utah, 11,700 feet, L. F. Ward. 

 •)— -H- Leaves undivided, merely crenate or crenulate : scape or stem leafy-bracteate. 

 ++ Corolla mostly 2-parted, rarely 3-parted, and stamens inserted on its very base. 



S. alpina, Gray. A span or only an inch or two high, early glabrate except the very 

 lanuginous inflorescence : radical leaves oval or subcordate, an inch or so long on a longer 

 petiole : base of stem or scape naked : spike very dense, oblong or cylindraceous : bracts 

 and lanceolate sepals very long-woolly-villous at margins : corolla violet-purple, very 

 unequal ; its broad upper lip twice the length of the calyx, the 2-3-parted lower one 

 small and included. — Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiv. 251. — Colorado Rocky Mountains in 

 the alpine region, first collected by Parry. 



S. plantaginea, Benth. A foot or less high, rather stout ; tomentulose-pubescent when 

 young, tardily glabrate : radical leaves oblong, rarely cordate, usually obtuse at base, 

 pale or dull, 2 to 4 inches long : scape very leafy-bracteate : dense 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 2-3-lobed lower one. — Prodr. 1. c. ; Gray, 

 1. c. — Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, in subalpine woods, first collected 

 in Long's expedition, by James. 



S. Houghtoniana, Benth. A foot or two high, pubescent : radical leaves cordate or 

 ovate, 2 or 3 inches long : scape or stem strict, very leafy-bracteate : spike 4 to 8 inches 

 long, dense, or at base open : bracts and oblong-lanceolate sepals soft-pubescent : corolla 

 greenish or dull yellowish, not longer than the calyx, variously 2-4-parted ; the divisions 

 almost equal in length. — Gray, Man. ed. 6, 331. — Oak-barrens and prairies, Michigan and 

 Wisconsin to W. Illinois. Rarely with 3-celIed ovary, or 5-merous calyx, or 4 stamens, 

 the additional pair later. 



++ -H- Corolla wanting: stamens inserted on the outside of the hj'pogj'nous disk. 



S. rubra, Benth. 1- c. A span to a foot or more high, rather stout, more or less pubes- 

 cent, and the spike (2 to 5 inches long) tomentose : radical leaves ovate or obscurely 

 cordate (1 to 3 inches long), thickish ; the cauHne similar, but small and sessile: sepals 

 oblong: capsule turgid. — Gymnandra rubra, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. ii. 103, t. 172. — Along 

 streams, interior of Oregon to Brit. Columbia, Montana, and N. Utah. Name inappropri- 

 ate : perhaps the stamens are reddish. 



25. VERONICA, L. Speedwell, Brooklime. (Flower of St. Vero- 

 nica ?) — Herbs in all the northern temperate regions, &c. (in Australia and New- 

 Zealand, in a peculiar section, shrubby or even arborescent, and with a turgid 

 septicidal capsule), of various habit; the leaves opposite or verticillate, or some- 

 times the upper alternate, as are the bracts. Flowers small, racemose, spicate, or 

 solitary in the axils, never yellow ; in spring or summer. 



§ 1. LeptXndra, Benth. in DC. Corolla salverform; the tube longer than 

 the lobes : stamens and style much exserted, the former inserted low on the tube : 

 capsule ovate, turgid, hardly at all compressed, not at all emarginate, dehiscent at 

 apex by all four sutures, at length more loculicidal : seeds numerous, oval and 

 terete, with minutely reticulated coat: tall perennials: leaves mostly verticillate: 

 flowers in dense terminal and also upper axillary spikes, miinutely bracteate. — 

 Leptandra, Nutt. Gen. i. 7. Eustachya & Callistachya, Raf. 



Leptandra angustifolia, Lehm. Del. Sem. Harab. 1839 ( Veronica angustifolia, Steud.), 

 mistakenly said to have been raised from New Orleans seed, is V. tuUJlora, Fischer & Meyer, 

 of E. Siberia. 

 V. Virginica, L. (Culver's Physic.) Nearly glabrous, or foliage pubescent: simple 



stems 2 to 6 feet high : leaves in whorls of 3 to 9, lanceolate and slender-acuminate, some- 



