^26 SCBOPHTJtARIACti^ STtrtHYBis 



VEEOMOA 



S. rubra Benth. 1. c. 425. Lanate with soft white wool: herbage more 

 or less reddish-hued : leafy : radical leaves orbicular or ovate to oolong or 

 lanqeolate, crenulate, narrowed, truncate or cordate at base, the blade 1-2 

 inches long, on petioles as long or longer ; caulinfe ovate to lanceolate, 6-12 

 lines long, sessile or nearly so : pedicels only 1-2 lines long : calyx-lobes 

 ovate-lanceolate or oblong : corolla none : stamens inserted on the outside 

 of the hypogynous disk : capsule turgid, emarginate, slightly longer than 

 the calyx. On high open ridges, eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia and 

 Nebraiika. 



17 VERONICA L. Sp. 9. (1753.) 



Annual or perennial herbs (some exotic species shrubs or trees) 

 with mostly opposite, rarely verticillate or alternate, leaves and 

 usually small blue, pink or white flowers in terminal or axillary 

 racemes or spikes, or rarely Solitary. Calyx mostly 4-parted, 

 sometimes 5-parted, the segments oblong or ovate. Corolla rotate, 

 its tube very short, the limb deeply and more or less unequal- 

 ly. 4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed, the lower lobe commonly smallest. 

 Stamens 2, divergent, inserted on either side at the base of the 

 upper lobe of the corolla: anthers obtuse, their cells confluent at 

 the apex. Ovary two-celled: style slender; stigma capitate: 

 ovules few or many in each cell. Capsule more or less compressed, 

 sometimes very flat, emarginate, obcordate or two-lobed, loculi- 

 cidally dehiscent. Seeds smooth or rough, flat, plano-convex or 

 excavated on the inner face. 



* Perennial by stolons, or creeping base : racemes in the axils of 

 opposite leaves. 



Y. Americana Schwein. Behth. in DC. Prodr. x, 468.- Glabrous 

 thyoughoiit : stems decumbent, usually branched, rooting at_ the lower 

 nodes, 6-30 inches long : leAves oblong to ovate or broadly lanceolate, 1-3 

 inches long, sharply serrate, truncate, rounded or subcordate at base, all 

 distinctly petioled : racemes peduncled, loose, elongated, 2-6 inches long : 

 bractlets linear, 2-6 lines long : pedicels slender, 6 lines or more long : sep- 

 als oblong, about a line long : corolla blue or nearly white, usually striped 

 with purple, about 2 lines, broad: capsule nearly orbicular, compressed but 

 not very flat, emarginate, 1}4 lines high : seeds flat. Common in moist or 

 wet places, Alaska to California and across flie Continent. 



V. scntellata L. Sp. 12. Glabrous or very sparingly hairy: stems 

 8l(!.nder, ascending from a stoloniferous base, 1-2 feet long': leaves sessile, 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, remotely denticulate, 2-3 inches long : 

 flowerp scattered on filiform elongated and widely spreading pedicels : 

 corolla blue or purple, 2-3 lines broad: capsule broader than hitth, very 

 flat, deeply emarginate at the summit, slightly so at base : seeds flat. In 

 ponds and wet places, Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent. 



, * * Low perennials with ascending or erect flowering stems termin- 

 ated by a single raceme : cauline leaves above passing into bracts : seeds 

 numerous, much compressed or meniscoidal. 



V. Cflslckii Gray Syn. Fl. ii, 288. Glabrous: stems 3-6 inches high, 

 erect, simple^ from .creeping rootstocks : leaves ovate to oblong, sessile or 

 nearly so, entire, ,6-10 lines long, the pairs crowded up to the naked ped- 

 uncle of the ,3-9-flowered raceme : pedicels slender, often as long as the 

 flower and longer than the oblong-linear bracts : sepals lanceolate, about 

 2 lines long : corolla blue or violet, 4-5 lines in diameter, with ample 



