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THE SCEOPHULAKIA FAMILY. 



In woods, pastures, hedgebanks, roadsides, etc. ; very common all 

 over Europe and Russian Asia, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic 

 Circle. Extends all over Britain. Fl. spring and summer. 



11. Ivy Veronica. Veronica hedersefolia, Linn. (Eig. 753.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 784) 



An annual, usually not so hairy as the 

 'procumbent V. ; the leaves of a thicker 

 and smoother consistence, more dis- 

 tinctly stalked, broadly orbicular, with 

 5 or 7 coarse teeth or short lobes, the 

 middle one broad and rounded ; but the 

 chief distinction is in the calyx, the di- 

 visions of which are broadly heart-shaped, 

 not narrowed at the base. Corolla and 

 capsule nearly those of the procumbent 

 V., but there are usually but 1 or 2 seeds 

 in each cell. 



In waste and cultivated places, in Eu- 

 rope and Russian Asia, extending as a 

 weed of cultivation over nearly the same 

 area as the procumbent V., but generally 

 less abundant. In Britain, not near so 

 common as the procumbent V. Fl. all 

 summer. 



Fig. 753. 



12. Procumbent Veronica. Veronica agrestis, Linn. 



(Eig. 754.) 



(Eng. Eot. t. 783 and Suppl. t. 2608.) 



A more or less hairy, much branched 

 annual, with procumbent or prostrate 

 stems, from 3 inches to 8 or 10 inches 

 long. Leaves shortly stalked, ovate and 

 toothed ; the lowest opposite, without 

 flowers, but the greater number alter- 

 nate, each with a pedicel in its axil, 

 a usually shorter than the leaf, bearing 

 single, small, blue or pinkish- white 

 flower. Sepals ovate or oblong, usually 

 longer than the corolla. Capsule com- 

 posed of 2 ovoid, erect lobes, each con- 

 taining a small number of seeds, which 



Fig. 754. 



