GENUS 22. FIGWORT FAMILY. 199 
2. Synthyris rubra (Hook.) Benth. Western Synthyris. Fig. 3795. 
Gymnandra rubra Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 103. pl. 172. 
1838. 
Synthyris rubra Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 455. 1846. 
Wulfenia rubra Greene, Erythea 2: 83. 1894. 
Besseya rubra Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Club 30: 280. 1903. 
Similar to the preceding species but lower, pubescent 
or tomentose, seldom over I° high. Basal leaves ovate 
or oblong, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed, trun- 
cate or cordate at the base, 14’-3’ long, crenulate, peti- 
oled, indistinctly nerved; stem-leaves ovate or lanceo- 
late, acute, sessilé, crenulate, or entire, }’-1’ long; spike 
very dense, 1-2’ long in flower, 2’-5’ long in fruit, its 
bracts purplish; corolla none; stamens inserted on the 
outer side of the hypogynous disk; capsule little com- 
pressed, emarginate, slightly longer than the calyx. 
In dry soil, South Dakota to Nebraska, British Columbia and Utah. May-June. 
23. VERONICA [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl.9. 1753. 
Annual or perennial herbs (some exotic species shrubs or trees), with opposite and alter- 
nate, rarely verticillate leaves, and mostly small blue purple pink or white flowers, terminal 
or axillary, racemose, spicate, or solitary. Calyx mostly 4-parted, sometimes 5-parted, the seg- 
ments oblong or ovate. Corolla rotate, its tube very short, deeply and more or less unequally 
4-lobed (rarely 5-lobed), the lower lobe commonly the narrowest. Stamens 2, divergent, 
inserted on either side and at the base of the upper corolla-lobe; anthers obtuse, their sacs 
confluent at the summit; filaments slender. Ovary 2-celled; style slender; stigma capitate; 
ovules few or numerous in each cavity. Capsule more or less compressed, sometimes very 
flat, emarginate, obcordate, or 2-lobed, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds smooth or rough, flat, 
plano-convex, or excavated on the inner side. [Named for St. Veronica.] 
About 200 species, of wide geographic distribution. Besides the following, 3 others occur in 
northwest America. Type species: Veronica officinalis L. 
* Flowers racemose in the axils of the leaves, bracteolate. 
Glabrous, or minutely glandular above (No. 3 rarely hairy) ; brook or swamp plants. 
Leaves ovate, oval, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate ; capsule compressed. 
Stem leaves sessile, partly clasping, serrulate or entire. 1. V. Anagallis-aquatica. 
All the leaves petioled, serrate. 2. V. americana. 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate; capsule very flat. 3. V. scutellata. 
Pubescent, dry soil plants; leaves crenate or dentate. 
Leaves oval or obovate, petioled ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. 4. V. officinalis. 
Leaves ovate, nearly or quite sessile ; pedicels longer than the calyx. 5. V. Chamaedrys. 
** Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes, or solitary in the axils. 
Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. 
Leaves all sessile ; capsule elliptic, emarginate. 
Lower leaves petioled ; capsule orbicular, obcordate. 
Flowers solitary in most of the axils; peduncles shorter than the leaves. 
Erect; glabrous or glandular; capsule emarginate. 
Diffuse ; pubescent ; capsule obcordate. 
Flowers solitary in the axils; peduncles as long as the leaves, or longer. 
Leaves ovate or oblong, crenate or dentate. 
Corolla not longer than the calyx; capsule narrowly emarginate. 10. V. agrestis. 
Corolla longer than the calyx; capsule broadly emarginate. 11. V. Tournefortii. 
Leaves orbicular, or broader, 3—-5-lobed or -crenate. 12. V. hederaefolia. 
. V.Wormskioldii. 
. V. serpyllifolia. 
V. peregrina. 
. Ve arvensis. 
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