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times oblong, very closely and sharply serrate, 3 to 5 inches long : terminal spike 6 to 10 

 inches long, with commonly several shorter ones from upper axils : corolla white, some- 

 times bluish. — Spec. i. 9 (Pluk. Aim. t. 70, fig. 2) ; Hoffm. Comm. Gaett. xv. t. 1 ; Thunb. 

 Fl. Jap. 20 ; Michx. Fl. i. 5. Eustacliya alba & purpurea, & Callistachya Virginica, &c., Raf. 

 Leptandra Virginica, Nutt. 1. c. Z. purpurea, Raf. Med. Bot. t. 59. Veronica Sibirica, L. 

 Spec. ed. 2, i. 12. V. Japonica, Steud. ; Miq. Prol. Jap. 50. — Moist woods and banks, 

 from Canada and Winipeg Valley to Alabama and Missouri: fl. summer. (Japan and 

 E. Siberia.) 



§ 2. Veronica proper. Corolla rotate with very short tube : stamens at the 

 upper sinuses : capsule from emarginate to obcordate-2-lobed : seeds more or less 

 compressed anteriorly and posteriorly, or plano-convex, or the inner face hollowed : 

 low herbs. 



* Perennials, stoloniferous or creeping at base : racemes in the axils of the opposite leaves. 

 -J— Capsules manv-seeded, turgid, orbicular and mainly emarginate : seeds merely compressed or 

 plano-convex : lower part of stems rooting in shallow water : racemes commonly from opposite 

 axils, loose and elongated : pedicels slender, widely spreading : corolla pale blue, often purple- 

 striped. 



V. Anagallis, L. Glabrous, or inflorescence glandular-puberulent : leaves sessile by 

 broadish somewhat clasping base, and tapering gradually to the apex, oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire or obscurely serrate. -— Fl. Dan. t. 903; Engl. Bot. t. 781. — Canada to lUuiois, New 

 Mexico, and Brit. Columbia. (Eu., Asia.) 



V. Americana, Schwein. Glabrous : leaves aU or mostly petioled, ovate or oblong, 

 truncate-subcordate at base, usually obtuse : pedicels more slender. — Herb. Hook. ; Benth. 

 in DC. 1. c. V. intermedia, Schwein. in Am. Jour. Sci. viii. 268, name only. V. Beccabunga 

 of older Am. authors. V. Anagallis, Bong. Veg. Sitk., &c. — Canada and N. Atlantic States 

 to New Mexico, California, and Alaska. 



->— -f— Capsule several-seeded, strongly compressed contrary to the partition : seeds very flat : 

 racemes or spikes from alternate or sometimes from opposite axils: corolla mostly pale blue. 



V. soutellata, L. Glabrous : stem slender, ascending from a stoloniferous base, a span 

 or two high : leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, remotely denticulate (2 or 3 

 inches long): racemes several, filiform, flexuous: flowers scattered on filiform elongated 

 and widely spreading pedicels : capsule biscutelliform, being deeply emarginate at apex 

 and slightly at base. — Fl. Dan. t. 209; Engl. Bot. t. 782; Michx. 1. c — Swamps, Hud- 

 son's Bay and N. Atlantic States to British Columbia and N. California. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



V. Cham-^drys, L. Stem ascending from a creeping base, pubescent, at least in two lines : 

 leaves ovate or cordate, incisely crenate, subsessile : racemes loosely-flowered : pedicels 

 little longer than calyx : blue corolla rather large: capsule triangular-obcordate. — Engl. 

 Bot. t. 073. — Sparingly introduced into Canada, New York, and Penn. (Nat. from Eu.) 



V. officinalis, L. Soft-pubescent throughout : stems creeping and procumbent : leaves 

 short-petioled or subsessile, obovate-oval or oblong, obtuse, serrate, pale (an inch long) : 

 spikes few, alternate or solitary, rarely from opposite axils, densely many-flowered : pedi- 

 cels shorter than calyx : capsule obovate-triangular or cuneate, with a broad and shallow 

 notch at the apex. — Fl. Dan. t. 248; Lam. 111. t. 13; Engl. Bot. t. 765; Michx. 1. c — 

 Dry hills and open woods. New England to Michigan, and south to the mountains of N. 

 Carolina and Tennessee. (Eu., N. W. Asia.) 



v. Kamtchatica, L. f . Villous with somewhat viscid hairs : stems ascending, 1 to 3 

 inches long, bearing 3 to 5 pairs of leaves separated by short internodes : leaves 6 to 18 

 lines long, broadly oval, obscurely serrate, contracted into a short petiole-like base : pedun- 

 cles 1 to 3, erect, surpassing the leaves, somewhat corymbosely 3-8-flowered : pedicels 

 about the length of calyx and bracts: corolla half inch or more in diameter, perhaps 

 bright blue. — Suppl. 83. V. grandiflora, of Gfertn. in Comra. Act. Petrop. xiv. t. 18, not 

 of Don, &c. V. aphjlla, var. (Willd. Spec. i. 60; Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. ii. 556) gran- 

 diflora, ^mi\\. in DCi. Prodr. x. 476; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 245. — Kiska, one of the Aleutian 

 Islands, Doll. (Kamtschatka and adjacent islands.) 



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

 cauline leaves above passing into bracts : seeds numerous, much compressed or somewhat menis- 

 coidal. (Specimens disposed to turn dark in drying.) 

 V. fruticul6sa, L., of Europe, is in Greenland, beyond our limits. 



