334 THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. [ Veronica. 
to have two varieties or forms, one with large blue flowers, and the other 
with smaller more pinkish flowers. 
Perennials, with the flowers in leafless spikes or racemes, 
Spikes or 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 atthe base . . ees wees » | « on V sarotee, 
Stems herbaceous. 
Stem erect or scarcely creeping at the base, 2 or 3 inches 
high. Flowers very few, in a short spike orhead . 3. V. alpina. 
Stem creeping, and rooting at the base. Flowers in 
loose, often leafy spikes . .« « .o « « & V. serpyllifolia, 
Racemes axillary. 
Plant glabrous. 
Leaves linear or lanceolate. Stem diffuse. Racemes few 
and slender. Capsule very flat, broader than long . 8. V. scutellata, 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong, Stems erect. Racemes nume- 
rous. Capsule as long as orlongerthan broad . . 6. V. Anagallis, 
Leaves oblong or ovate, rather thick and obtuse. Stem 
diffuse. . Pu mb ig Rites - 7. V. Beccabunga, 
Plant more or less hairy. 
Leaves much narrowed at the base. Flowers pos or 
almost sessile . ‘ . 6. V. officinalis. 
Leaves ovate, broad or cordate. at the base. Flowers 
rather large and pedicellate. 
Stem hairy all round. Capsule broadest in the middle. 9. V. montana, 
Stem with two opposite lines of long hairs. Capsule 
broadest towards the top . - 10. V. Chamedrys. 
Annuals. Flowers all, or at least the lower ones, ‘solitary in the 
axils of the leaves. 
Upper flowers forming a raceme. The upper leaves reduced to 
bracts. 
Plant glabrous, creeping, and rooting at the base. Seeds 
ovate . 4. V. serpyllifolia, 
Plant downy or hairy, erect or ‘procumbent, but not creep- 
ing. Seeds cup-shaped. 
Leaves ovate, coarsely toothed. Pedicels shorter than 
the calyx . . a : ° - “ ; : , 14. V. arvensis, 
Leaves deeply cut. 
Stems erect. Pedicels shorter than the calyx . . 15. V. verna, 
Stems decumbent. Pedicelsas long as or lone 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. Capsuje 2-to4-seeded  . .1l. V. hederefolia, 
Sepals ovate or lanceolate. Leaves short- stalked. Capsule 
several seeded. 
Capsule twice as broad as long. Flowers rather large . 13. V. Buxbaumii, 
Capsule but little broader than long. Flowerssmall , 12. V. agrestis. 
1, V.spicata, Linn. (fig. 748). Spiked Veronica.—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 slightly 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 of the British 
species. 
In hilly pastures, chiefly in limestone districts, over the greater part of 
the continent of Kurope, and northern and western Asia, short of the 
Arctic regions, Rare in Britain, and chiefly in Suffolk and Cambridge- 
shire, and Wales. Fl.summer. A large and broader-leaved variety, some- 
