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land or in the Jura, though widely spread through France, and it 

 reappears in Corsica and Sardinia. 



TozziA L. 

 Tozzia alpina L. 



Rootstock covered with succulent, imbricate scales, with thick 

 fibres among them, forming an ovoid, compact body. Stem erect or 

 ascending, succulent, quadrangular, with short hairs on the angles, 

 with opposite bi'anches from the middle, and a pair of leaves at 

 the axils of each pair of branches. Leaves ovate, acute or obtuse, 

 sessile, glabrous, coarsely serrate or entire. Flowers opposite in 

 the axils of the upper leaves, shortly stalked, forming short, loose, 

 leafy racemes at the summit of the branches ; flower-stalk downy, 

 recurved when the fruit is ripe. Corolla yellow, with red spots on 

 lower lip. Perhaps semi-parasitic. 



Moist, stony, shady places in limestone woods and among debris 

 in the Alps and sub-Alps ; local. June to August. 



Distribution. — Carpathians, Silesian Mountains ; Eastern, Central, 

 and Western Alps, Jura, Pyrenees. 



Bartsia L. 

 Bartsia alpina L. (Plate XXII.) 



Rhizome branching', many-stemmed. Stem simple, erect, or 

 ascending, purplish brown, with glandular hairs, 2-8 inches high, 

 quadrangular, scaly at the base. Leaves opposite, ovate, some- 

 what amplexicaul, bluntly serrate, wrinkled, covered with short 

 hairs ; upper leaves violet. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, shortly stalked, dark violet-red, covered with glan- 

 dular hairs. Anthers bearded. Calyx hairy. Becomes black on 

 drying. 



Fresh, grassy places in the Alps and sub-Alps, extending up- 

 wards to 8800 feet. July, August. 



Distribution. — Carpathians, Sudetic Mountains, Eastern, Central, 

 and Western Alps, Jura, Vosges, Black Forest, Pyrenees. All 

 mountainous Europe, and as far as Arctic Russia and Siberia. 

 British. 



Veronica L. Speedwell. 



Herbs with opposite stem-leaves and small flowers, blue, white, 

 or pink, in spikes or racemes, or in the axils of alternate floral- 

 leaves. Calyx 4 or rarely 5-cleft. Corolla with very short tube, 

 and rotate limb, deeply 4-cleft. Stamens 2. Capsule more or less 

 flattened laterally, and opening in 2 valves. Seeds few. 



A large genus in the northern hemisphere ; a few species ex- 

 tending into the tropics and southern hemisphere, and others 

 (mostly shrubs) are peculiar to New Zealand and Australia. 



