338 THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. [ Veronica, 
abundant in southern Europe and central Asia than in central or northern 
Europe. Occurs rather frequently in Britain, but probably introduced 
with Clover or other seeds. 7. all summer. 
14, V. arvensis, Linn. (fig. 761). Wall Veronica.—A little, hairy 
annual, seldom 6 inches high, and often much smaller; the stems some. 
times erect and simple, sometimes diffuse and branching at the base. 
Leaves almost sessile, opposite, ovate, and toothed, but not cut; the upper 
floral ones small, alternate, lanceolate, and entire. Flowers small and 
sessile, forming terminal, leafy racemes; the sepals oblong or lanceolate, 
unequal in size ; the corolla very small, blue or nearly white. Capsule 
broad, much flattened, notched, each cell containing a small number of 
broad, flattened seeds. 
In cultivated and waste places, banks, old walls, etc., throughout Europe 
and Russian Asia. Abundant in Britain. 7. the whole season. 
15. WV. verna, Linn. (fig. 762). Vernal Veronica,—A small, erect 
annual, seldom above 2 or 3 inches high, closely allied to V. arvensis, of 
which it has the almost sessile flowers ; but the stem-leaves are deeply cut 
into 3, 5, or 7 narrow lobes as in V. triphyllos. 
A more southern species than V. arvensis, widely spread over central 
and southern Europe, and south Russian Asia to the Altai, but rare in 
the north. In Britain, it has been found in a few sandy fields in Norfolk 
and Suffolk. #7. spring and summer. | 
16. V. triphyllos, Linn. (fig. 763). Fingered Veronica.—Stem 
spreading, or almost trailing, as in V. agrestis and V. hedera@folia; but 
the leaves are deeply cut into 3, 5, or 7 digitate lobes, and the capsule and 
seeds are more like those of V. arvensis. Flower-stalks rather longer than 
the floral leaves, which are much smaller and less divided than the stem- 
leaves. Corolla small, of a deep blue, Capsule broad, with several thin 
but concave seeds. 
In cultivated and waste places, widely spread over central and southern 
Europe and western Asia, extending northward into southern Sweden. 
Rare in Britain, having been only found in a few localities in Suffolk, 
Norfolk, and Yorkshire, FU. spring and summer. 
X. BARTSIA. BARTSIA. 
Herbs, usually half-parasitical on the roots of other plants, with erect 
stems, opposite leaves, and yellow or purple flowers in terminal spikes. 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 4-cleft. Corolla with a distinct tube; the 
limb 2-lipped; the upper lip erect, concave, entire or notched, but without 
spreading lobes. Stamens 4, in pairs; the cells of the anthers pointed at 
the base. Capsule opening in 2 valves in the middle of the cells, Seeds 
many, more or less striated or furrowed. 
Rather a large genus, chiefly European, north African, and west Asiatic, 
but also with a considerable number of South American species. It has 
been divided into three or four distinct genera, distinguished chiefly by the 
seeds; but although I had myself on another occasion adopted three of 
them, it apears to me now to be a more natural and convenient course to 
consider them as sections of one genus, distinguished from Huphrasia by — 
the form of the corolla. 
