SCROPHULAIUACEiE. 161 



The large flowers on long erect pedicels distinguish this from 

 all the preceding species. 



Blue Mock Speedwell. 



French, Veronique des Rochers. 



Section III.— PSEUDO-LYSIMACHIUM. Koch. 



Perennial. Flowers in terminal racemes. Pedicels not re- 

 flexed in fruit, solitary in the axils of bracts dissimilar to and 

 much smaller than the leaves. Calyx 4- (rarely 5-) partite. Tube 

 of corolla as long as or longer than wide. 



SPECIES XII— V ERONICA SPICATA. Linn. 



Plates DCCCCLXXXII. DCCCCLXXXIII. 



Reicli. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXIII. 

 Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 426. 



Stems stiff, branched only from the base, or quite simple, decum- 

 bent at tbe base, then erect. Leaves crowded at tbe extremity 

 of the barren shoots and at the base of the flowering-stem, and 

 more thinly scattered over its whole length ; the lowest ones 

 shortly stalked, oblong or oval-elliptical ; the upper stem-leaves 

 nearly sessile, elliptical or strapshaped-elliptical ; all crenate-serrate 

 or serrate. Bracts alternate, strapsbaped. Flowers in a long dense 

 terminal spikelike raceme, slightly elongating in fruit. Pedicels 

 much shorter than the bracts and calyx, erect. Sepals 4, oblong- 

 elliptical, obtuse, ciliated with jointed but not gland-tipped hairs. 

 Tube of the corolla rather longer tban wide. Capsule about as 

 long as the sepals, subglobular-ovoid, slightly compressed, scarcely 

 emarginate, clothed with jointed hairs without glands at the tips ; 

 lobes separated by scarcely any notch, but with a deep line at the 

 junction of the carpels. Style twice as long as the capsule. Seeds 

 nearly flat on the inner face. Plant pubescent with jointed hairs, 

 intermixed on the upper part of the stem and on the bracts with 

 jointed gland-tipped hairs. 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Plate DCCCCLXXXII. 

 V. 8picata, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 14. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2. 



Lowest leaves insensibly attenuated into their petioles, serrated 

 principally about the middle. 



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