6 Rhodora [January 



I. VERONICASTRUM [Heister] Fabr. 



Veronicastrum [Heister] Fabr., Enum. Meth. PI. Hort. Helmstad. 

 111. 1759. (Cheeked only in second edition, 205. 1763.) Type 

 species, Veronica virginica L. 

 1. Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell. 



Veronica virginica L., Sp. PI. 9. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia." 

 Plant grown in the Clifford Garden in Holland, and carefully de- 

 scribed by Linne, Hort. Cliff. 7. 1737. No pubescence on leaf 

 mentioned. 



Veronicastrum album Moench, Meth. PI. Hort. Marburg. 437. 



1794. " Veronica virginica Linn." Grown in the 



Marburg Garden, Germany. 



Calistachya alba Raf. in Med. Repos. New York. II. 6 : 352. 1808. 

 Based on Veronica virginica L. Type species of Calistachya Raf., 

 not Callistachys Vent., 1804. 



Veronica quinquefolia Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 28. 1812. "In 



a garden V. virginica L. " Evidently name chosen 



as more appropriate than "virginica." Two varieties, or actually 

 forms, alba and incamata, are listed. 



Leptandra virginica (L.) Nutt., Gen. N. Am. PI. 1: 7. 1818. 

 Type species of Leptandra Nutt. 



Eustachya alba Raf., Cat. Ky. 14. 1824. Based upon Vero7iica 

 virginica L. Existachya Raf. in Am. Mo. Mag. 4: 190. 1819, was a 

 new name for Calistaehya Raf. Name antedated by Eustachys Desv., 

 1810. 



Leptandra virginica purpurea Eaton, Man. Bot. ed. V. 275. 1829. 



" " Described as with "flowers purple." Credited to 



Pursh, who however assigned his color variety no name. According 

 to Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 10. 1814: "On the mountains of Virginia 

 I observed a . . . . variety with purple flowers." 



Leptandra purpurea Raf., Med. Fl. 2: 20. 1830. "Confined to 

 the savannas of the South and the West [of the United States]." 

 Carefully described; a purplish-flowered, single-spiked plant with 

 sessile leaves in whorls of three. Three varieties, or actually forms, 

 named. 



Leptandra alba Raf., 1. c. 21. 1830. "The most common species, 

 being found all over the United States." Described with white 

 flowers and semi-petiolate leaves in whorls of usually five. Several 

 varieties, or actually forms, named. 



Leptandra villosa Raf., 1. c. 21. 1830. "Mr. Schriveinitz [Schwei- 

 nitz] has found it in North Carolina." Careful description of the 

 form with leaf-blades pubescent beneath. This may be considered 

 a forma villosa (Raf.) Pennell, comb, now 



Eustachya oppositifolia Raf., New Fl. Am. 2: 21. 1837. "Mts. 

 Apalaches of Virginia." Apparently an opposite-leaved virginica, 

 a form which I have never seen. 



