veronica SCROPHULARIACE.E 527 



rounded lobes: filaments filiform, exserted : style filiform, three times as 

 long as the calyx : capsule elliptical, merely emarginate. Alpine regions 

 of the Blue Mountains of Oregon. 



V. Alleni Greenman Bot. Gaz. xxv, 263. Nearly glabrous below, pu- 

 bescent above: stems 3-4 inches high : lower leaves much reduced, upper 

 sessile, thickish, oblong or oblong-ovate, 5-7 lines long, obtuse: inflores- 

 cence glandular-pubescent: pedicels 1-3 lines long, often exceeding the 

 bracts : calyx-lobes unequal, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or rounded at 

 the apex covered on the outer surface and along th margins with long 

 glandular hairs: corolla 3-4 lines in diameter, white or with a slightly 

 purplish throat, the upper lobe subrhombic, emarginate, the lateral ones 

 ovate or ovate-rhombic, somewhat larger than the lower one : stamens 

 exserted : ovary closely covered above with short glandular hairs : style 

 exserted: fruit not seen. Along Paradise river, Mount Rainier Wash. 



V. Wormskioldii Roem. & Sch. Syst. i, 101. V. alpina of American 

 authors' not of L. Hirsute-pubescent or glabrate : stems slender, simple, 

 3-12 inches high, from slender creeping rootstocks : leaves mostly shorter 

 than the internodes, ovate to oblong, obscurely crenulate, 6-12 lines long, 

 rounded, truncate or subcordate at base, sessile or nearly so: racemes 

 spiciform or subspicate, dense, or interrupted below: pedicels erect, 

 shorter than the calyx, much shorter than the lanceolate bracts : corolla 

 violet, its limb 2-3 lines in diameter, surpassing the stamens and short 

 style: capsule elliptical-obovate, emarginate. In wet places in alpine 

 regions, Alaska to California and across the Continent. 



V. serpyllifolia L. Sp. 12. Pubescent or glabrous: stems creeping 

 and branching, at base, the branches at length ascending, 2-10 inches long : 

 leaves all opposite and petioled, or the upper ones sessile, oblong to oval or 

 ovate, 3-10 lines long, crenulate to entire: flowers in short spicate racemes 

 at the ends of the stems or branches : pedicels equalling or longer than the 

 calyx, usually shorter than the lanceolate or oblong bracts : corolla pale 

 blue with darker stripes, to almost white, about 2 lines in diameter: sta- 

 mens and style exserted: capsule broader than high, obcordate, about a 

 line high, equalling the calyx: seeds flat. In wet places Alaska to Cali- 

 fornia and across the Continent: also in Europe, Asia and South America. 



* * * Low annuals : flowers in the axils of ordinary or of the upper 

 more or lsss reduced and commonly alternate leaves : corolla mostly 

 shorter than the leaves. 



V. peregrina L. Sp. 14. Glabrous, or glandular-puberulent: stem 

 erect, 2-6 inches high, usually branched from the base: leaves thickish, 

 4-12 lines long, the lower petioled and oblong or oval, dentate; the others 

 sessile, from oblong to linear-spatulate, mostly attenuate; uppermost more 

 bract-like and entire : pedicels a line long, much shorter than the bracts : 

 corolla whitish, about a line in diameter, shorter than the calyx: stamens 

 not exserted: capsule nearly orbicular, obcordate usually a little shorter 

 than the calyx, 1-134 lines high, many-seeded : seeds flat. Common in 

 moist or wet places Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent. 



V. abvensis L. Sp. 13. Pubescent annual: stem slender, at first sim- 

 ple and erect, at length much branched and diffuse, 2-10 inches long: 

 lower leaves ovate or oval, opposite, obtuse at both ends, crenate or crenu- 

 late, 2-6 lines long, the lowest petioled; upper leaves sessile, alternate, 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute or acutish, commonly entire : pedicels very short: 

 corolla blue or white, about a line in diameter, shorter than the calyx : 

 capsule broanly ovate, obcordate, a line high. Common in waste places 

 and pastures, Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent: 

 naturalized from Europe. 



