400 THE SCBOPHrXLAEIA PAMILT. 



Stems diifiise or very short. Racemes loose, few-flowered. 



Stem shrubby at the base 2. MocTc V. 



Stems herbaceous. 

 Stem erect or scarcely creeping at the base, 2 or 3 inches 



high. Flowers very few, in a short spike or head . . 3. Alpine V. 

 Stem creeping, and rooting at the base. Flowers in loose, 



often leafy spikes 4, Thyme-leaved V. 



Hacemes axillary. 

 Plant glabrous. 



Leaves hnear or lanceolate. Stem diffuse. Racemes few 



and slender. Capsule very flat, broader than long . . 8. Mwrsh V. 

 Leaves lanceolate or oblong. Stem erect. Racemes nu- 

 merous. Capsule as long or longer than broad ... 6. Wafer V. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate, rather thick and obtuse. Stem diffuse 7. Brooklime V, 

 Plant more or less hairy. 

 Leaves much narrowed at the base. Flowers sessile or almost 



sessile 5. Common V. 



Leaves ovate, broad or cordate at the base. Flowers rather 

 large and pedicellate. 

 Stem hairy aU round. Capsule broadest in the middle . 9. Mountain V. 

 Stem with two opposite lines of long hairs. Capsule 



broadest towards the top 10. Germander V. 



Annuals. Flowers all, or at least the lower ones, solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves. 

 Upper Jloioersforming a raceme. The vpper leaves reduced to bracts. 

 Plant glabrous, creeping, and rooting at the base. Seeds ovate 4. Thyme-leaved V, 

 Plant downy or hairy, erect or procumbent, but not creeping. 

 Seeds cup-shaped. 

 Leaves ovate, coarsely toothed. Pedicels shorter than the 



calyx 14. Wall V. 



Leaves deeply cut. 



Stems erect. Pedicels shorter than the calyx .... 15. Vernal V. 

 Stems decumbent. Pedicels as long as or longer than the 



calyx 16. Fingered V. 



All the jlowers axillary. The upper leaves like the lower ones, hut 

 smaller. Stems procumbent. Seeds Jiat or nearly so. 

 Sepals heart-shaped at the base. Leaves rather thick, often 



long-stalked. Capsule 2- to 4-seeded 11. TvyY. 



Sepals ovate or lanceolate. Leaves short-stalked. Capsule 

 several-seeded. 

 Capsule twice as broad as long. Flowers rather large . . 13. Buxbaum's V. 

 Capsule but Uttle broader than long. Flowers small . , . 12. Procumbent K, 



1. Spiked Veronica. Veronica spicata, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2.) 



Stock shortly creeping, hard, and almost woody; the stems ascending or 

 erect, 6 inches to a foot high, usually simple. Leaves oblong or the lower 

 ones ovate, downy, and slightly crenate. Flowers of a clear blue or some- 

 times pale pink, in a dense terminal spike ; the lobes of the corolla narrower 

 and less spreading, and the tube more apparent than in any other of the 

 British species. 



In hilly pastures, chiefly in limestone districts, over the greater part of 

 the continent of Europe, and northern and western Asia, short of the Arctic 

 regions. Eare in Britain, and chiefly in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. FL 

 summer. A larger and broader-leaved variety, sometimes distinguished 

 under the name of V. hybrida (Eng. Bot. t. 673), occurs in Somersetshire 

 and in some other western counties; and numerous varieties of this and 

 the alhed V. paniculata and longifolia have long been cultivated for orna- 

 ment in cottage gardens. 



2. Rock Veronica. Veronica saxatilis, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1027.) 

 A low, spreadmg perermial, glabrous in aU its parts except a slight glan- 



