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ease exceeding the narrowly ovate sepals. Capsule-lobes 
utish, the most distal point of ae near the lateral 
argin ersica. 
Pedicels aheter ‘than sepals or bracts. Seis: linear to narrowly 
ovate. Capsule flattened. Seeds many, less than m 
long, flat, smooth or nearly so. Leaves sessile (or the lower 
petioled), scarcely palmate, alternate only through the in- 
florescence. 
Perennial. Repent, with ascending stems. Leaves oval or 
ovate, obscurely crenate. Inflorescence spike-like, re- 
i or ; 
sule retuse or shallowly notched, glandular-pubescent. 
4. V. serpyllifolia. 
Annuals. Erect, much branched below. Most leaf-axils flower- 
bearing. Sepal s lanceolate to linear. Capsule deeply 
otched. 
Lower stem-leaves ovate, crenate-serrate, the lowermost 
frequently petioled. Corolla deep  violet-blue. Cap- 
sule pubescent with slightly gland-tipped hairs. Plant 
pubescent with glandless hairs 
& Vie arvensis 
Lower stem-leaves oblanceolate, entire or distally remotely 
toothed, all sessile. Corolla whitish throughout. Cap- 
ee nen Plant glabrous or with short gland-tipped 
hai 
Plan c be bro 6. V. peregrina. 
Plant nubanchast with mesa hairs. 
. peregrina xalapensis. 
Flowers all in axillary small-bracted miehibn Leaves opposite 
throughout. Perennials. 
Capsule glandular-pubescent, strongly two-lobed, longer than the 
sepals. Stems, pedicels, leaves and sepals pu ubese ent. Leaves 
oval, crenate-serrate, narrowed to a petiolar base. Reten: 
sively repent, at apex ascending. oy of dry soil. 
V. officinalis. 
Capsule papi scarcely or not Sicicias siting the sepals. 
Plant glabrous or with scattered gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate, obscurely crenate-serrate. 
Ascending or wholly erect. Aquatics 
Stem distally, rhachis and pedicels glabrous. Leaves oblong- 
ovate, all petioled, mostly emersed. — st helped 10- 
25 flowered. Plant emersed. 8. V. am 
Stem distally, rachis oA pedicels sparsely ahaa with 
glands, borne upon jointed stalks. Leaves lanceolate, 
oe rs usually 25-50 flowered. Plant nearly 
submerse 9. V. glandifera 
1, Veronica hederaefolia L. 
Waste site mostly near cities, occasional. 
Eurasia. 
Naturalized from 
