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18. IHelampy'nim. Oalyx 4-cleft, the lobes sharp-pointed. Corolla 

 greenish-yellow ; upper lip arched, compressed, the lower 3-lobed 

 at the apex. Stamens 4 ; anthers hairy. Pod 1-4-seeded, flat, 

 oblique. Upper leaves larger than the lower ones and fringed 

 with bristly teeth at the base. 



1. VERBAS'CIIIH, L. MrrLLEiN. 



1. V. Thap'SUS, L. (Common MtrLLBiN.) A tall and very 

 ■woolly herb, with the simple stem winged by the deourrent 

 bases of the leaves. Flowers yellow, forming a dense spike. 

 — Fields and roadsides everywhere. 



2. V. Blatta'Fla, L. (Moth M.) Stem slender, nearly 

 smooth. Lower leaves petioled, doubly serrate ; the upper 

 partly clasping. Flowers whitish with a purple tinge, in a 

 loose raceme. Filaments all violet-bearded. — Roadsides; not 

 common northward. 



8. VERON'ICA, L. Speedwell. 



1. V. Ameriea'na, Schweinitz. (American Beooklime.) 

 Flowers pale blue, in opposite axillary racemes. Leaves 

 mostly petioled, thickish, serrate. Pod swollen. — A common 

 plant in brooks and ditches. 



2. V. anagal'lis, L., (Watek Speedwell) is much like 

 No. 1, but the leaves are sessile, with a heart-shaped base. 



.B. V. seutella'ta, L. (Marsh S.) Flowers pale blue, in 

 racemes, chiefly from afteraaie axils. Leaves sessi'Ze, linear, 

 opposite, hardly toothed. Racemes 1 or 2, slender and zig- 

 zag. Flowers few. Pods very flat, notched at both ends. — 

 Bogs. 



Var. pubeseens, Macoun, has hairy stem and leaves. 



4. V. Offleina'llS, L. (Common S.) Flowers light blue. 

 Stem prostrate, rooting at the base, pubescent. Leaves 

 short-petioled, obovatc-elliptical, serrate. Racemes dense, 

 chiefly from alternate axils. Pod obovate - triangular, 

 strongly flattened, notched. — Hillsides and open woods. 



5. V. ehamse'drys, L. Flowers pale blue. Stem pubes- 

 cent, at least in 2 lines, from a creeping baSe. Leaves 

 nearly sessile, ovate or cordate, incisely orenate. Racemes 



