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THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. 



tire. Flowers small and sessile, form- 

 ing terminal, leafy racemes ; the se- 

 pals oblong or lanceolate, unequal in 

 size ; the corolla very small, blue or 

 nearly white. Capsule broad, much 

 flattened, notched, each cell contain- 

 ing a small number of broad, flattened 

 seeds. 



In cultivated and waste places, 

 banks, old walls, etc., throughout Eu- 

 rope and [Russian Asia. Abundant 

 in Britain. Fl. the whole season. 



Fig. 756. 



15. Vernal Veronica. Veronica verna, Linn. (Fig. 757.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 25.) 



A small, erect annual, seldom above 

 2 or 3 inches high, closely allied to the 

 wall V., of which it has the almost 

 sessile flowers ; but the stem-leaves 

 are deeply cut into three, five, or seven 

 narrow lobes as in the fingered V. 



A more southern species than the 

 wall V., widely spread over central 

 and southern Europe, and south Rus- 

 sian Asia to the Altai, but rare in the 

 north. In Britain, it has been found 

 in a few localities in Norfolk and Suf- 

 folk. Fl. spring and summer. 



Fig. 757. 



