334 THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. [ Veronica, a 
Plant downy or hairy, erect or procumbent, but not creep- 
ing. Seeds cup-shaped. 
Leaves ovate, ay toothed. Pedicels shorter Ce the 
calyx. ; ; : . 14, Vz arvensis. 
Leaves fabupty cut. 
Stems erect. Pedicels shorter than the calyx . 15, V. verna. 
Stems decumbent. Pedicels as long as or longer than 
the calyx . 16. V. triphyllos. 
All the flowers axillary. The’ upper leaves like the lower ones, but 
smaller. Stems procumbent. Seeds flat or nearly so. 
Sepals heart-shaped at the base. Leaves rather thick, often 
long-stalked. Capsule 2- to 4-seeded 11. V. hedercefolia. 
Sepals ovate or lanceolate. Leaves short- stalked. Capsule 
several seeded. 
Capsule twice as broad as long. Flowers ratherlarge . 13. V.Buabawmii. 
Capsule but little broader than long. Flowers small . 12. V. agrestis. 
1. V. spicata, Linn. (fig. 750). Spiked S.—Stock shortly creeping, 
hard, and almost woody ; the stems ascending or erect, 6 inches to a 
foot high, usually simple. Leaves oblong or the lower ones ovate, 
downy and slighty crenate. Flowers of a clear blue or sometimes pale 
pink, in a dense terminal spike; the lobes of the corolla narrower and 
less spreading, and the tube more apparent than in any other British 
species. 
In hilly pastures, chiefly in hmestone districts, over the greater part 
of the continent of Europe, and northern Asia, short of the Arctic 
regions. Rare in Britain, and chiefly in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, 
and Wales. fl.swmmer. A large and broader-leaved variety, V. hybrida, 
Lifin., occurs in Somersetshire and in some other western counties ; 
and numerous varieties of this and the allied V. paniculata and longifolia 
have long been cultivated for ornament in cottage-gardens. 
2. V. saxatilis, Linn. (fig. 751). Rock S.—A low, spreading per- 
ennial, glabrous in all its parts except a slight glandular down in the 
upper part, branching and often woody at the base, with spreading 
or ascending flowering branches, 3 or 4 inches long. Leaves small, 
obovate or oblong, entire or nearly so, and rather firm. Racemes short, 
of a few rather large, bright-blue flowers, on short pedicels. -Capsules 
ovate. 
On alpine rocks, often at great elevations, in most of the great 
mountain-chains of Europe, extending northwards to the Arctic Circle, 
but scarcely into Asia. In Britain not very abundant, and only in the 
high mountains of Perthshire and some adjoining counties of Scotland. 
Fl. summer, A variety with smaller pink flowers has been distinguished 
under the name of V. fruticulosa, but it is very rare, and probably 
merely accidental. 
3. V. alpina, Linn. (fig. 752). Alpine S.—Stock shortly creeping, — 
but never woody as in V. saxatilis, and much less branched thanin Vv. © 
serpyllifolia. Flowering branches often solitary, always simple, ascend- — 
ing from 2 to 4 or even 5 inches high, and slightly hairy. The raceme, 
when young, forms a short, slightly hairy head, and even in fruit is 
but little elongated, consisting of 4 or 5 rather small blue flowers, vary- 
ing occasionally, as in other species, to a pale pink or flesh-colour. 
In alpine situations, in most of the great chains of Europe, Asia, and 
North America, extending into high northern latitudes. In Britain, only 
near the summits of the higher mountains of Scotland. Fl. summer. 
4. V. serpyllifolia, Linn. (fig. 753). Thyme-ieaved S.—Stems: — 
