SCROPHULARIACEAE .{FIGWORT FAMILY) 



451 



lobes: corolla yellowish:, stamens long-exserted.— La Plata Mountains, Col- 

 orado. : > ' 1 . , ■ : 



,7., Synthyris reflexa Eastw. 1. p. 124. Glaucous and somewhat viscid; scape 

 er^qtj 1-2. dm. high, with broad, foliaceous bracts: leaves radical, 7 cm. lohg, 

 elliptical-oblong, obtuse, truncate or cuneate at base, finely crenate, thin in 

 texture; petioles 3-5 cm. long: bracts of (the scape feessiie,.broadly ovate, acute, 

 entire, or serrulate near the apex: floral bracts ovate' to linear, fringed with 

 long, white hairs; flowers greenish-white, reflexed on pedicels 1 mm. long: 

 calyx o^ 2 divisionsiS mm. in diameter, orbicular, fringed like the bracts: 

 corolla of : 2 parts united at base, the upper broad, somewhat hood-shaped, 

 5 EQDa.- broad, 8 mm. long, sparingly frmged; the lower 2-cleft; divisions 

 laciniate^ 2 mm. long: stamens 2; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla, 

 surpassing it by 4 mm.^San Juan Mountains, Colorado. 



9. VERONICA L. 



Annual or perennial herbs with mostly opposite leaves and usually small 

 blue, pink, or white flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or spikes; Calyx 

 mostly 4fparted, the segments oblong or ovate. Corola rotate, the tube very 

 short, tliie limb deeply and more or less unequally 4-lobed. Stamens 2; an- 

 thers obtuse, their cells confluent at the apex. Ovary 2-celled; style slender; 

 stigma capitate; ovules few or many in each cell. Capsule. more or less 

 compressed, sometimes very flat, emarginate, obcordate, or 2-lobed. Seeds 

 smooth or rough, flat, plano-convex or.escc%Ya|e,^jOn the inner face. 



Small anntial .... 



Perennials. '■ 



Flowersnn terminal apikes. 

 Capsule, oblong, emarginate 

 Capsule orbicular, obcdfdate 

 ' Flowers rac^those in tb'e 's^dls. ' 

 Leaves oblong to oval. 

 Stem leaves sessile . . 

 All the leaves, petioled 

 Leaves linear or nearly so . 



1. V. peregrina. 



2. y. alpina. 



3. V. serpyllifolia. 



4. V. anagallis-aquatica. 



5. V. americana, ' 



6. V. sputellata. 



1. Veronica peregrina 'L. Sp. PI. 14, 1753. Low annuals, glabrous, or 

 above minutely pubescent or glandular; stem and branches' erect, 1.5-JJ dm. 

 high: leaves thickish; the lowest petioled and oblong or oval, dentate; the 

 middle sessile, oblong to liiiear-spatulate; the uppermost more bract-like 

 and entire: flowers in the axils of ordinary or bract-like, commonly alternate 

 leaves, very short-pediceled:, capsule orbicular and slightly obcordate. — 

 Throughout the continent. 



2. Veronica alpina L.l. c. 11. Hirsute-pubescent or glabrate; stems slen- 

 der,: isimple, 8^16 cm. high, from slender creeping rootstocks: leaves mostly 

 shorter than the internodies, ovate to oblong, obscurely crenulate, 15-20 mm. 

 long, rounded, truncate or subcordate at base, sessile or nearly so: raceme 

 spiciform or subspicate, dense or interrupted below; pedicels erect, shorter 

 than the calyx j m.uch shorter than the lanceolate bracts: corolla violet, the 

 limb.47-S mm.Jn diameterj surpassing the stamens and short style: capsule 

 elliptical-obovate, emarginate. (V. Wormsjoldii R. & S.) — In the high alti- 

 tudes and latitudes of northern America and Europe. 



3. Veronica serpyllifolia L. 1. c. 12. Pubescent or glabrous; stems creep- 

 ing and branching at base, the branches at length ascending, 6-25 cm. long: 

 leaves all opposite and petioled, or the upper ones sessile, Oblong' to oval or 

 ovate, 8-20 mm. long, crenulate to entire:' fldwers in short spicate racemes at' 

 thte ends of the stems or branches ; pedicels equaling or longer than the calyx : 

 corolla pale blue with darker stripes, to almost white: stamens and style ex- ■ 

 serted: capsule broader than high, obcordate, about 2 mm. high, equaling the 

 calyx; seeds flat. — Wet places; in this and other continents. , 



4. Veronica anagallis-aquatica L. 1. c. Perennial, glandular-pubescent 

 above; stems 2-9 dm. long, often somewhat brainched: leaf-blades' lanceolate 

 to oblong, 2-12' cm. long, acute, finely serrate or nearly entire, sessile and 



