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B. Racemes several, terminal : — V. alpina, L. ; flowers 

 small, bright blue, crowded, leaves broadly ovate, sessile, 

 nearly entire, ciliate; alpine pastures, frequent. V. belli- 

 dioides, L.; resembling alpina, but the radical leaves larger, 

 obovate, crowded into a rosette, whole plant more hairy, 

 leaves entire ; alpine pastures, frequent. V. Townsendi, 

 Grml. ; leaves fewer, dentate, raceme grandiilar, anthers 

 white ; Valais, rare. V. aphylla, L. ; flowers light blue, 

 in a very short corymbose raceme, inflorescence not 

 glandular, very pubescent, stem 1-2 in., leafless, radical 

 leaves crowded, ovate, ciliate ; high, alpine, frequent. V. 

 fruticulosa, L. ; flowers large, light pink with darker 



veins, leaves opposite, ovate, sessile, nearly entire, glab- 

 rous, stem woody below, 6-9 in. high; alpine rocks; 

 Switzerland, Jura, Pyrenees. V. saxatilis, Scop, {fruti- 

 cans, Jacq.) ; flowers larger, \ in. diam., bright blue with 

 a purple ring at the base, leaves thick, elliptic, nearly 

 entire, nearly glabrous; high alps; Switzerland, Jura, 

 Vosges, Carpathians. V. nummularia, Gou. (PI. 95); 

 flowers bright blue, in a crowded sessile raceme, leaves 

 small, very crowded, thick, glabrous, eUiptic, lower part 

 of stem often leafless ; Pyrenees. V. Pona, Gou. ; 

 flowers violet, in a loose raceme, leaves large, oval, 

 strongly serrate, stem 12-18 in.; Pyrenees. 



C. Racemes axillary : — V. urticcefolia, L. (latifolia, L.) ; 

 flowers violet, stem 1-2 ft., hairy, leaves opposite, distant, 

 lanceolate, serrate ; mountain woods, common. V. num- 

 mularioides, Lee. ; flowers lilac or nearly white, stem 2-6 

 in., racemes many-flowered, somewhat elongated, glandu- 

 lar-hairy ; Switzerland, rare. V. Allionii, Vill. ; flowers 

 large, very dark blue, in crowded racemes, leaves thick, 

 coriaceous, ovate or obovate, nearly entire, glabrous; a 



