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means fastidious, and easily increased by seeds or division. An 

 admirable plant for rockwork, its prostrate habit fitting it best 

 for sloping positions or fissures on vertical faces of rocks. It 

 also thrives perfectly well as a border-plant, at least in well- 

 drained sandy soils. It is nearly allied to V. Teucrium, but 

 differs by flowering earlier, by having the divisions of the calyx 

 smooth and not ciliated, the lobes of the corolla obtuse at the 

 summit, and the fruit smooth and somewhat smaller. 



VERONICA SAXATILIS.— i?Of/l V. 



A BRILLIANT, blue-flowering, dwarf, bush-like plant, a native of 

 alpine rocks in various parts of Europe, and also in a few places 

 in the Highlands of Scotland, forming very dressy tufts, six or 

 eight inches high. The flowers are a little more than half an 

 inch across, and of a very pretty blue, striped with violet, with a 

 narrow but decided ring of crimson near the 'bottom of the cup, 

 its base being pure white. Blooms in May and June abun- 

 dantly, is easily increased by seed or cuttings, grows in ordinaiy 

 soil, and should Tie in every rock-garden or collection of dwarf 

 alpine plants. 



VERONICA TAURICA.— 7a«rM« Speedwell. 



A VERY dwarf, wiry, and almost woody species, forming neat 

 dark-green tufts, under three inches high ; the leaves crowded, 

 the upper ones distinctly toothed ; the flowers a fine gentian-blue, 

 abundantly produced, ""^rhaps the neatest of all rock Veronicas 

 for forming spreading tufts in level spots, or tufts drooping from 

 chinks, and admirable also for the margin of the mixed border, 

 thoroughly hardy, growing in ordinary well-drained garden soil, 

 and flowering in early summer. Suitable for association with 

 the dwarfest alpine plants and mountain shrubs, being itself 

 indeed a tiny compact prostrate shrub. A native of Tauria ; in- 

 creased by division or by cuttings. 



VERONICA T^XSGSSXm..— Teucrium Speedwell. 



A CONTINENTAL plant, somewhat pubescent, with opposite 

 leaves, the upper ones nearly linear, the lower oval-oblong, 

 deeply and unequally incised and toothed ; the stems forming 

 spreading masses from eight inches to a foot high, and covered 



