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flowers, each 14 inch long. Four of the calyx-segments broad and 
leafy, the fifth upper one much narrower and more pointed. Corolla 
beautifully spotted inside, with 4 short lobes, the lowest about twice 
the length of the others and hairy inside. 
On dry, hilly wastes, and roadsides, in many parts of western and 
central Europe, extending northwards into Scandinavia, but almost 
unknown in limestone districts. Abundant in Britain. F. spring and 
sunumer. 
IX. VERONICA. SPEEDWELL. 
Herbs (or shrubs in a few exotic species), with opposite stem-leaves, 
and small flowers, usually blue or white, sometimes arranged in spikes 
or racemes, or in the axils of alternate floral leaves. Calyx 4- or 5- 
cleft. Corolla with a very short tube, the limb rotate, deeply 4-cleft, 
the lower segment the narrowest. Stamens 2. Capsule more or less 
flattened laterally (at right angles to the partition), and opening round 
the edges in 2 valves. Seeds few. 
A numerous genus in the northern hemisphere, with a few species 
spreading into the tropics and far into the southern hemisphere, 
whilst a few are peculiar to Australia, and very many to New Zealand, 
where the genus forms a dominant feature throughout the island. 
Among the latter the V. speciosa, salicifolia, Lindleyana, and other 
shrubby or half-shrubby ones, are much cultivated in our gardens. 
Several species occasionally have two forms of flowers, one lafge 
and blue, the other smaller and pinkish. 
Perennials, with the flowers in leafless spikes or racemes. 
Spikes ov racemes terminal. 
Stem erect, with a long dense, terminal spike of flowers . 1. V. spicata. 
Stems diffuse or very short. Racemes loose, few-flowered. 
Stem shrubby at the base. ; a ; : » 2. V.. savaties. 
- Stems herbaceous. 
Stem erect or scarcely creeping at the base, 2 or 3 inches 
high. Flowers very few, in a short spike or head . 3. V. alpina. 
Stem creeping, and rooting at the base. Flowers in 
loose, often leafy spikes . : ; : ; . 4. V. serpyllifolia. 
Racemes axillary. 
Plant glabrous. 
Leaves linear or lanceolate. Stem diffuse. Racemes few 
and slender. Capsule very flat, broader than long 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong. Stems erect. Racemes nume- 
rous. Capsule as long as or longer than broad 
Leaves oblong or ovate, rather thick and obtuse. ‘Stem 
diffuse . ‘ F : ‘ : _ 
Plant more or less hairy. 
Leaves much narrowed at the base. Flowers sessile or 
almost sessile . t . 
Leaves ovate, broad or cordate at the base. Flowers 
rather large and pedicellate. 
Stem hairy all round. Capsule broadest in the middle. 9. TV. montana. 
Stem with 2 opposite lines of long hairs. i 
broadest towards the top. 10. 
Annuals. Flowers all, or at least the lower ones, “solitary i in the 
axils of the leaves. 
ad flowers forming a raceme. The upper leaves reduced to 
racts. 
Plant glabrous, nara and rooting at the base. Seeds 
ovate ‘ ; : : : ’ 
V. scutellata. 
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V. chameedrys. 
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