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9. Mountain Veronica. Veronica montana, Linn. 

 (Fig. 751.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 766.) 



The foliage is nearly that of the Ger- 

 mander V,, but the stem is more trailing, 

 rooting at the nodes, and hairy all round ; 

 the leaves are on longer stalks ; the ra- 

 cemes are looser and more slender, with 

 fewer flowers, which are usually rather 

 small, and the capsnle is very flat, about 

 4 lines broad, and only 3 long, regularly 

 orbicular, the broadest part being in the 

 middle, notched at the top, and often 

 minutely toothed, and ciliate round the 

 edge. 



In moist woods, over the whole of 

 temperate Europe, from southern Swe- 

 den to southern Russia, but not so fre- 

 quent as the common V. and the Ger- 

 mander V. JN~ot unfrequent in most parts of England and Ireland, as 

 well as in several Scotch counties. Fl. spring and summer* 



Fig. 751. 



10. Germander Veronica. Veronica Chamoedrys, Linn. 

 (Fig. 752.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 623.) 



Stems weak, creeping at the base, 

 then ascending, often above a foot long, 

 and remarkable by the hairs collected 

 into two opposite lines down the stem 

 from between each pair of leaves to the 

 leaf next below, whilst the rest of the stem 

 is glabrous or nearly so. Leaves short- 

 ly stalked, ovate, cordate, crenate, and 

 hairy. Racemes axillary, one only from 

 each pair of leaves, much longer than the 

 leaves, with rather large bright blue, or 

 rarely smaller pinkish flowers, on rather 

 long pedicels. Calyx 5-cleft. Capsule 

 flat, very broad, and notched at the top, 

 narrowing towards the base. 



Fig. 752. 



