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THE SCROPHULAUIA FAMILY. 



Upper flowers forming a raceme. The upper leaves re- 

 duced to bracts. 

 Plant glabrous, creeping, and rooting at the base. 



Seeds ovate 4. Thyme-leaved V. 



Plant downy or hairy, erect or procumbent, but not 

 creeping. Seeds cup-shaped. 

 Leaves ovate, coarsely toothed. Pedicels shorter 



than the calyx 14. Wall V. 



Leaves deeply cut. 



Stems erect. Pedicels shorter than the calyx . 15. Vernal V, 

 Stems decumbent. Pedicels as long as or longer 



than the calyx 16. Fingered V. 



All the floivers 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. Ivy V. 

 Sepals ovate or lanceolate. Leaves short-stalked. 

 Capsule several-seeded. 

 Capsule twice as broad as long. Flowers rather 



large 13. Buocbaumts V. 



Capsule but little broader than long. Flowers 



small 12. Procumbent V. 



1. Spiked Veronica. 



Fig. 743. 



Veronica spicata, Linn. (Fig. 743.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2.) 



Stock shortly creeping, hard, and al- 

 most 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 Europe, and northern and 

 western Asia, short of the Arctic re- 

 gions. Rare in Britain, and chiefly in 

 Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Fl. sum- 

 mer. A larger and broader-leaved va- 

 riety, sometimes distinguished under the 

 name of V. hybrida (Eng. Bot. t. 673), 



