200 SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vou. ILI. 
1. Veronica Anagillis-aquatica L. Water 
Speedwell or Pimpernel. Fig. 3796. 
Veronica Anagallis-aquatica L. Sp. Pl. 12. 1753. 
Perennial by stolons or leafy shoots developed in 
autumn; stem rather stout, glabrous, or glandular- 
puberulent above, erect or decumbent, often rooting 
at the lower nodes, usually branched, 1°-3° high. 
Leaves of sterile autumn shoots orbicular to obovate, 
obtuse, serrulate, narrowed into margined petioles, 
those of the flowering stems ovate, oblong, or lan- 
ceolate, sessile and more or less clasping or the 
lowest short-petioled, serrulate or entire, 14-4’ long, 
3’-2’ wide; racemes peduncled, borne in most of the 
axils, 2-5’ long; bractlets shorter than or exceeding 
the pedicels; flowers blue, or purplish striped, 2” 
broad; capsule compressed, not very flat, nearly or- 
bicular, 2-lobed, emarginate, 14” high; seeds flat. 
In brooks and swamps, Nova Scotia to British Co- 
lumbia, south to North Carolina, Nebraska and New 
Mexico. Also in Europe and Asia. The plant of the 
Atlantic Coast appears as if introduced. Ascends to 4oo0 ft. in Virginia. May-Sept. 
2. Veronica americana Schwein. American Brooklime. Fig. 3797. 
V. americana Schwein. ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 468. 1846. 
Similar to the preceding species, perennial by stolons 
or leafy shoots, glabrous throughout; stem decumbent, 
usually branched, rooting at the lower nodes, 6’-3° long. 
Leaves oblong, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, all distinctly 
petioled, sharply serrate, truncate, rounded, or subcor- 
date at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, 1’-3’ 
long, 4’-1’ wide; racemes peduncled, borne in most of 
the axils, loose, elongated, sometimes 6’ long; bractlets 
shorter than the pedicels; flower blue or nearly white, 
usually striped with purple, 2” broad; capsule nearly 
orbicular, compressed, but not very flat, emarginate, 13” 
high; seeds flat. 
In brooks and swamps, Anticosti to Alaska, south to 
Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New Mexico and California. 
Ascends to 2600 ft. in the Catskills. Wallink. Blue-bells. 
April-Sept. 
Veronica Beccabinga L., a European brooklime, similar 
to V. americana in habit, but with crenate or low-serrate 
broad tipped leaves, is naturalized about Quebec and has been found on ballast about seaports in 
New York and New Jersey. 
3. Veronica scutellata L. Marsh or Skullcap 
Speedwell. Fig. 3798. 
Veronica scutellata L. Sp. Pl. 12. 1753. 
Glabrous, or very sparingly pubescent, rarely quite 
hairy, perennial by leafy shoots or stolons; stems slen- 
der, decumbent or ascending, leafy, simple or branched, 
commonly rooting at the lower nodes, 6’-2° high. Leaves 
linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile and slightly clasping, 
remotely denticulate, acute, 1-3’ long, 1”~3” wide; ra- 
cemes borne in nearly all the axils, or only in the alter- 
nate ones, equalling or longer than the leaves; bractlets 
much shorter than the filiform spreading pedicels; flow- 
ers blue, 2-3” broad; capsule broader than high, very 
flat, deeply emarginate at the summit, slightly so at the 
base, 2”-24” broad; seeds flat. 
In swamps, Labrador to British Columbia, south to south- 
ern New York, Minnesota and California. Also in Europe 
and Asia. May-Sept. 
