SCROPILULARIACEiE. 1G1 
The large flowers on long erect pedicels distinguish this from 
all the preceding species. 
Blue Mock Speedwell. 
French, Veronique cles Jlorhers. 
Section III.— PSEUDO-LYSIMACHIUM. Koch. 
Perennial. Flowers in terminal racemes. Pedicels not re- 
flexed in fruit, solitary in the axils of bracts dissimilar to and 
much smaller than the leaves. Calyx 4- (rarely 5-) partite. Tube 
of corolla as Ions: as or longer than wide. 
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SPECIES XII.— V ERONICA SPICATA. Linn. 
Plates DCCCCLXXXII. DCCCCLXXXIII. 
Beich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXIII. 
BiUot. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 426. 
Stems stiff, branched only from the base, or quite simple, decum- 
bent at the base, then erect. Leaves crowded at the extremity 
of the barren shoots and at the base of the flowering-stem, and 
more thinly scattered over its whole length ; the lowest ones 
shortly stalked, oblong or oval-elliptical ; the upper stem-leaves 
nearly sessile, elliptical or strapshaped-elliptical ; all crenate-serrate 
or serrate. Bracts alternate, strapshaped. Flowers in a long dense 
terminal spikelike raceme, slightly elongating in fruit. Pedicels 
much shorter than the bracts and calyx, erect. Sepals 4, oblong- 
elliptical, obtuse, ciliated with jointed but not gland-tipped hairs. 
Tube of the corolla rather longer than wide. Capsule about as 
long as the sepals, subglobular-ovoid, slightly compressed, scarcely 
emarginate, clothed with jointed hairs without glands at the tips ; 
lobes separated by scarcely any notch, but with a deep line at the 
junction of the carpels. Style twice as long as the capsule. Seeds 
nearly flat on the inner face. Plant pubescent with jointed hairs, 
intermixed on the upper part of the stem and on the bracts with 
jointed gland-tipped hairs. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Plate DCCCCLXXXII. 
V. spicata, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 14. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2. 
Lowest leaves insensibly attenuated into their petioles, serrated 
principally about the middle. 
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