288 ' SCROPHULARIACE^. Veronica. 



■+- Capsule ovate, elliptical, or oblong, merely emarginate : stems erect from a slender creeping 

 rootstock : leaves all sessile or nearly so : corolla blue or violet. 

 V. Cusickii. A palm high, glabrous or pubescent : leaves ovate or oblong, entire (half to 

 three fourths inch long) ; the pairs crowded up to the naked peduncle of the 3-9-flowered 

 raceme : pedicels slender, often as long as the flower and longer than the oblong-linear 

 bracts : corolla 4 or 5 lines in diameter, with ample rounded lobes : these surpassed by the 

 filiform filaments and style; the latter thrice the length of the deflorate calyx. —Alpine 

 region of the Blue Mountains, W. Oregon, W. C. Cusick, a form with glabrous thickish 

 leaves. Scott Mountains in N. California, at 8,000 feet, E. L. Greene, form with narrower 

 and hirsute-pubescent leaves, rarely with a denticulation or two. Nearly related to V. 

 macrostemon of Bunge. 

 V. Stelleri, Pall. A palm high, liirsute, leafy up to the sessile corymbose raceme : 

 leaves ovate, copiously crenate-serrate (three fourths inch long) : pedicels slender, longer 

 than the flowers : corolla as in the foregoing : stamens barely equalling its lobes : slender 

 style not surpassing the calyx: "capsule ovate, hardly emarginate." — Roem. & Sch. Syst. 

 Mant. i. 102; Cham, in Linn. ii. 557; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 481. — Unalaska and other 

 Aleutian Islands. (Kamtschatka and Curile Islands.) 

 V. alpina, L. A span or rarely a foot high, hirsute-pubescent or glabrate : leaves mostly 

 shorter than the internodes of the simple stem, ovate to oblong, crenulate-serrate or entire 

 (half to full inch long) : raceme spiciform or subcapitate, dense, or interrupted below : 

 pedicels erect, shorter than the calyx (at least in flower), much shorter than the bracts: 

 corolla will) comparatively small limb, 2 or 3 lines in diameter, surpassing the stamens and 

 short style: capsule elliptical-obovate, emarginate. — Fl Lapp. 7, t. 9, fig. 4; Spec. i. 11; 

 Fl. Dan. t. 16 ; Benth. 1. c. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 248. F. Wormskioldii, Roem. & Sch. Syst. 

 i. 101 (villous inflorescence) ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2975 (as var. of alpina), the larger-leaved 

 and villous-pubescent form, commonest in N. America. V. nutans. Bong. Veg. Sitk. 39. — 

 Alpine regions, White Mountains of New Hampshire, Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada 

 for nearly their whole length, and north to Labrador, subarctic regions, and Aleutian 

 Islands. (Eu., Asia, Greenland.) 



-4- -J- Capsule oblate! V orbicular and obcordate : lower leaves short-petioled ; upper sessile: corolla 

 usually ))luish or pale with blue stripes. 

 V. serpyllifolia, L. Glabrous or puberulent : stems creeping and 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 upper passing into bracts of the leafy spiciform 

 raceme: pedicels erect, as long as the calyx. — Fl. Dan. t. 492 ; Engl. Bot. t. 1075.— 

 Open and grassy grounds. Labrador to the mountains of Georgia, New Mexico, and 

 across the continent to California and Aleutian Islands. (Eu., Asia, S. Am.) 

 * * Low annuals : flowers in the axils of ordinary or of the upper more or less reduced and com- 

 monly alternate leaves: corolla mostly shorter than the calyx. (All but the first naturalized 

 from'the Old World ) 

 ^- ^- Seeds flat or flattish, small and numerous : flowers very short-pedicelled, appearing some- 

 what spicate, the floral leaves being reduced or unlike the others. 

 V peregrina, L. (Neckweed.) Glabrous, or above minutely pubescent or glandular : 

 stem and branches erect, a span or two high : leaves thickish ; lowest petioled and oblong 

 or oval, dentate; the others sessile, from oblong to linear-spatulate, mostly alternate; 

 uppermost more bractlike and entire: capsule orbicular and slightly obcordate. —F. Mari- 

 landica, Murr. Comm. Goett. 1782, 11, t. 3, not L. F. Caroliniana, Walt. Car. 61. V. Xala- 

 pensis, HBK. — Low grounds, and a weed in damp cultivated soil, throughout the U. S. and 

 Canada to Brit. Columbia. (S. Am., and now almost cosmopolite.) 

 V. ARVENSis, L. Pubescent, a span or two high, soon spreading: lower leaves ovate, cre- 

 nate, short-petioled: floral sessile, lanceolate, entire: capsule broadly obcordate. — Cult, 

 and waste ground, Atlantic States to Texas : rather rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 -I- -K- Seeds fewer, cyathiform, much hollowed on the ventral face (§ Omphalospora, Bess.): pros- 

 trate or spreadinsi annuals : flowers on slender at length recurving pedicels from the axils of 

 ordinary and petioled leaves. 

 V. AGRESTis, L. Pubescent: leaves from round-ovate or subcordate to oblong, crenate-ser- 

 rate, about equalling the pedicels: sepals oblong, surpassing the small corolla: ovules 

 numerous : capsule orbicular with a deep and narrow emargination, maturing few or soli- 

 tary seeds. — Sandy fields, New Brunswick to Louisiana : rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



