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

 inclies long, with commonly several shorter ones from upper axils ; corolla white, some- 

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

 PI. Jap. 20 ; Jlichx. !F1. i. 5. Eustacln/a alba & purpurea, & CaUistachi/a Vtrginica, &c., Raf. 

 Leptandra Virginica, Xutt. 1. c. L. purpurea, Raf. Jled. Bot. t. 59. Veronica Sibirica, L. 

 Spec. ed. 2, i. 12. T'. Japonica, Stcud. ; !Miq. Prol. Jap. 50. — Jloist woods and banks, 

 from Canada and Winipeg Valley to Alabama and JXissouri : 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. 

 •i— Capsules many-seeded, turgid, orbicular and mainly emarginate : seeds merely compressed or 

 plano-convex : io\\'er part of stems rooting in shallow water ; racemes commonly from opposite 

 axil?, 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 IlUnois, Xew 

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



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

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

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

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

 to New Mexico, California, and Alaska. 



H^ -i^ 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. SCUtellata, 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 biscutelUform, 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 X. California. (En., X. Asia.) 

 ■ V. CiiAJiiEDKrs, 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, X'ew York, and Penn. (Xat. 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. 705; Michx. 1. c. — 

 Dry hills and open woods, Xcw England to Michigan, and south to the mountains of X. 

 Carolina and Tennessee. (Eu., X. 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 

 briglit blue. — Suppl. 83. V. grandiflora, of Gaertn. in Comm. Act. Petrop. xiv. t. 18, not 

 of Don, &c. V. aphjlla, var. (Willd. Spec. i. 60; Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. ii. 5-56) gran- 

 diflora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 470 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 24.5. — Kiska, one of the Aleutian 

 Islands, Dall. (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. rRUTicuL6sA, L., of Europe, is in Greenland, beyond our limits. 



