588 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
New Mexico: Manguitas Spring; mountains southeast of Patterson; Fort Bayard; 
Lower Plaza; Hillsboro; Cloverdale; Organ Mountains; White Mountains. Along 
streams, in the Transition Zone. . 
8. Mimulus cardinalis Dougl.; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 28. 1835. 
Tyrk LocaLiry: California. 
Rance: Wet ground, Oregon and California to Mexico and western New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Gila Canyon (P. F. Mohr). 
12. CONOBEA Aublet. 
Low slender annual with pinnatifid leaves and small axillary flowers; calyx lobes 
unequal, longer than the tube; corolla 2-lipped; stamens 4, included, the anther 
sacs parallel, contiguous; styles united, incurved; capsules ovoid-conic, septicidally 
dehiscent, the valves entire or 2-cleft; seeds striate. 
1. Conobea intermedia A. Gray in Torr. U.S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 117. 1859. 
Type Locauity: Dry hills around the Copper Mines, New Mexico. Type collected 
by Wright (no. 1485). 
Rance: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Santa Rita. 
13. LIMOSELLA L. Mupworr. 
Small glabrous aquatic plants with fibrous roots, a cluster of entire fleshy leaves at 
the nodes of the stolons, and short scapelike naked pedicels from the axils, each 
bearing a small white flower; calyx campanulate; corolla rotate-campanulate, 5-lobed, 
nearly regular; stamens 4, the anther cells confluent. 
1. Limosella aquatica L. Sp. Pl. 631. 1753. 
Type Locauity: “Habitat in Europae septentrionalis inundatis.”’ 
Rance: British America to California and New Mexico; also in Europe, Asia, and 
South America. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; West Fork of the Gila; Bartlett Ranch. 
In mud and shallow water, in the Transition Zone. 
The plants from southern New Mexico have remarkably narrow leaves but not so 
narrow as in L, tenuifolia Hoffm. 
14. VERONICA IL. SprEepwetu. 
Low annual or perennial caulescent herbs with opposite or sometimes alternate, 
entire or toothed leaves and axillary racemose or spicate flowers; sepals 4, slightly 
united at the base; corolla whitish or blue, rotate, slightly irregular, the lower lobe 
usually narrowest; stamens 2, on either side of the upper corolla lobe; capsules flat- 
tened, notched or 2-lobed at the apex. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Flowers in axillary racemes. 
Leaves all short-petioled, the blades ovate to oblong...... 1. V. americana. 
Leaves mostly sessile, the blades of various shapes. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously ser- 
rate, 35 mm. long or more, not narrowed at the 
base; sepals not exceeding the capsule........... 2. V. anagallis- 
aquatica, 
Leaves oval or obovate, entire or nearly so, less than 
30 cm. long, narrowed at the base; sepals con- 
spicuously exceeding the capsule..............-. 3. V. micromera. 
