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THE SCKOPHULARIA FAMILY. 



flowering branches ascending, thick and 

 succulent, and, as well as the whole 

 plant, quite glabrous. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, ovate or oblong, obtuse, slight- 

 ly toothed, and rather thick. Flowers 

 small, blue or rarely pink, in opposite 

 axillary racemes, often scarcely longer 

 than the leaves. Capsule shorter than 

 the calyx, broad and rather thick, and 

 notched at the top. 



In wet ditches, and along streams and 

 ponds, in Europe, Hussian and central 

 Asia, and northern Africa, but scarcely 

 extending to the Arctic regions. Com- 

 mon in Britain. Fl. the whole summer. 



Fig. 749. 



8. Marsh Veronica. Veronica scutellata, Linn. 

 (Fig. 750.) 



(Eng. Bat. t. 782.) 



Hootstock slender and perennial, emit- 

 ting creeping runners ; the stems slender, 

 ascending or spreading, seldom above 6 

 inches high, glabrous or rarely downy. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous, en- 

 tire or scarcely toothed. Flowers few, 

 in very slender racemes, proceeding al- 

 ternately from one axil only of each pair 

 of leaves. Pedicels filiform. Corolla 

 rather small, of a pale pinkish-blue. 

 Capsule very flat, broad, and rather 

 deeply notched. 



In marshes, ditches, and wet places, 

 in northern and central Europe, Russian 

 Asia, and north America. Extends al- 

 most all over Britain. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 750. 



