WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 589 
Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes or solitary in the axils of 
the leaves. 
Annuals; flowers solitary in the axils of the little reduced 
leaves. 
Pedicels shorter than the oblong to linear cauline leaves.. 4. V. xalapensis. 
Pedicels longer than the ovate cauline leaves.........-. 5. V. tournefortir. 
Perennials; flowers in terminal spikes or racemes; leaves of 
the inflorescence much reduced. 
All leaves sessile, ovate to oblong; capsules merely 
emarginate..........--.-22.-.2 20202202 coe eee eee 6. V. wormskjoldii. 
Lower leaves petioled, the blades rounded-oval to oblong; 
capsules obcordate.....-...---------++++++eer eee 7. V. serpyllifolia. 
1. Veronica americana Schwein.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 468. 1846. 
AMERICAN BROOKLIME. 
Type Locauity: ‘In America boreali a Canada et Carolina usque ad flum. Oregon 
et in ins. Sitcha.”’ 
Rance: British America to California, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. 
New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Tunitcha Mountains; Farmington; Chama; 
Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Gallo Spring; West Fork of the Gila; Reserve; 
White and Sacramento mountains. Along streams, in the Upper Sonoran and Transi- 
tion zones. 
2. Veronica anagallis-aquatica L. Sp. Pl. 12. 1753. WATER SPEEDWELL. 
Typr Locaurry: “Habitat in Europa ad fossas.’’ 
Rance: British America to Arizona and North Carolina. 
New Mexico: Rio Mimbres (Thurber 217). Along streams. 
3. Veronica micromera Woot. & Standl. Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 16: 174. 1913. 
Type tocauiry: Along ditches in the vicinity of Shiprock, on the Navajo Reserva- 
tion, New Mexico. Type collected by Standley (no. 7283). 
Ranae: Known only from type locality, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
4. Veronica xalapensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 389. 1817. 
PURSLANE SPEEDWELL. 
Veronica peregrina of many authors, not L. 1753. 
Typr Locauity: “Crescit in Regno Mexicano prope Xalapa (alt. 630 hex.), in nemor- 
ibus Liquidambaris Styracifluae.”’ 
Rance: British America to California and Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; Shiprock; 
Chama; Mogollon Mountains; Kingston; Organ Mountains; White and Sacramento 
mountains. Chiefly in the Transition Zone. 
5. Veronica tournefortii K. Gmel. Fl. Badens. 1: 39, 1805. 
Veronica buxbaumii Ten. Fl. Napol, 1:7. pl. 7. 1811. 
Tyr Locauity: “Prope Carlsruhe in agris am Holzhof, ante aliquot annos ex horto 
botanico emigrata et nunc quasi spontanea,”’ Germany. 
New Mexico: Beulah (Cockerell). 
A native of Europe, introduced in many places in the United States. 
6. Veronica wormskjoldii Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 1: 101. 1817. 
‘ ALPINE SPEEDWELL. 
Type LocaLity: Greenland. 
Rance: British America to Arizona and New Hampshire. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. Wet ground, from the Canadian 
to the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 
