404 THE SCEOPHULAEIA FAMILY. 



parts ; the pedicels are longer, the flowers larger, of a bright blue, and the 

 lobes of the capsule are broad and divaricate, so that the whole capsule 

 when ripe is about 4 lines broad and only 2 long. 



A weed of cultivation, like the other annual species, but much more 

 abundant in southern Europe and central Asia than in central or northern 

 Europe. Occurs rather frequently in England and southern Scotland, but 

 probably introduced with Clover or other seeds. Fl. all summer. 



14. ^Vall Veronica. Veronica arvensis, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 734.) 



A little, hairy annual, seldom 6 inches high, and often much smaller ; 

 the stems sometimes erect and simple, sometimes diffuse and branching at 

 the base. Leaves almost sessile, opposite, ovate, and toothed, but not cut ; 

 the upper floral ones small, alternate, lanceolate, and entire. Flowers 

 small and sessUe, forming terminal, leafy racemes ; the sepals oblong or 

 lanceolate, unequal in size ; the corolla veiy small, blue or nearly white. 

 Capsule broad, much flattened, notched, each cell containing a small number 

 of ijroad, flattened seeds. 



In cidtivatcd and waste places, banks, old walls, etc., throughout Europe 

 and Russian Asia. Abundant in Britain. Fl. the whole season,. 



15. Vernal Veronica. Veronica vema, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 25.) 

 A small, erect annual, seldom above 2 or 3 inches high, closely alHed to 

 the wall v., of which it has the almost sessile flowers ; but the stem-leaves 

 are deeply cut mto 3, 5, or 7 narrow lobes as in the fingered V. 



A more southern species than the wall V., widely spread over central 

 and southern Europe, and south Russian Asia to the Altai, but rare in 

 the north. In Britain, it has been found in a few locahties in Norfolk and 

 Suffolk. Fl. spring and summer. 



16. Fingered Veronica. Veronica triphyllos, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 26.) 



Stem spreading, or almost trailing, as in the procumbent V. and the 

 Ini/ V. ; but the leaves are deeply cut into 3, 5, or 7 digitate lobes, and the 

 capsule and seeds are more hke those of the toall V. Flower-stalks rather 

 longer than the floral leaves, which are much smaller and less divided than 

 the stem-leaves. CoroUa small, of a deep blue. Capsule broad, with 

 several thin but concave seeds. 



In cultivated and waste places, widely spread over central and southern 

 Europe and western Asia, extending northward into southern Sweden. 

 Rare in Britain, having been only found in a few localities in Suifolk, 

 Norfolk, and Yorkshire. Fl. spring and summer. 



X. BARTSIA. BARTSIA. 



Herbs, usually half-parasitical on the roots of other plants, with erect 

 stems, opposite leaves, and yellow or purple flowers in terminal spikes. 

 Calyx tubular or campanula te, 4- cleft. CoroUa with a distinct tube ; the 

 limb 2-lipped ; the upper Up erect, concave, entu-e or notched, but with- 

 out spreading lobes. Stamens 4, in pau-s ; the ceUs of the anthers jjointed 

 at the base. Capsule opening in 2 valves in the middle of the ceUs. Seeds 

 many, more or less striated or furrowed. 



