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ing out in the summer, as it is from the Rocky Mountains ; 

 the flowers are very numerous, large, and of a rich blue; 

 the tube of the corolla funnel-shaped, v^ntricose above, the 

 limb two-lipped, the upper cut into two short, erect lobes, 

 low r er into three, reflexed, deeper ones, of which the middle 

 is the smallest ; this plant should not have much water, and 

 the root should be kept dry in the winter : it flow r ers in June. 

 P. cordifolius is a native of California ; it has bright scarlet 

 flowers and copious foliage, and will bear putting out in the 

 summer, but requires protection before the frosts appear ; it 

 looks remarkably well in the greenhouse, where it is easily 

 kept up by cuttings. A rich, light loam suits them. 



VERONICA. 



Gen. Char. {JDiandria Monogynia.) Flowers inferior; corolla 

 monopetalous, irregular, four-cleft, flattish, the lowest segment 

 the narrowest ; capsule two-celled. 



A name said to have been altered from betonica, a Celtic 

 word for botany. V. fomiosa, a native of Van Diemen's 

 Land, though now tolerably hardy, is very useful in the 

 greenhouse, as it forms a small bush, and at the end of every 

 little branch appears a raceme of bright but deep-blue flow- 



