1921] Pennel 1 , — "Veronica'' in North and South America 17 



Veronica serpyUifolia humifusa (Dickson) Vahl, Enum. PI. 1: 65. 

 1805. 



Veronica rudcralis Vahl, 1. c. 66. 1805. "Habitat in ruderatis 

 versuris et humidis locis frigidis Peruviae. " Re-naming, with a re- 

 arranged description, of the plant called by Ruiz and Pa von (Fl. 

 Peruv. et Chil. 1: 6. 1798) "Veronica serpillifolia" and obtained 

 by them "in ruderatis, versuris et humidis locis frigidis Pillao [Peru]." 

 Description distinctive of the variety now considered. 



Veronica serpyUifolia neomcxicana Cockerell in Am. Nat. 40: 872. 

 1906. " I found it at the top of the Las Vegas Range in New Mexico, 

 at 11,000 feet, June 28, 1902." Isotype seen in Herb. New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Veronica funesta Macbr. & Pays, in Contrib. Gray Herb. II. 49: 

 68. 1917. "Oregon: Swan Lake Valley, June 21," 1890, Elmer I. 

 Applegate, no. 424 (Type, Gray Herb.)." Type, collected "along 

 mountain streams," seen in Gray Herbarium. The filaments are 

 obviously shorter than in V. Cusickii A. Gray, and the (immature) 

 capsule is wider than long. 



Alpine meadows, reaching sea-level northward, from Labrador to 

 Alaska, south, eastward to northern Maine and Vermont, westward 

 through all high ranges of Canada and the United States, at scattered 

 stations in Mexico 5 (Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl), and through the 

 Andes from Colombia to Bolivia. Through the mountains of Eur- 

 asia, from Scandinavia, Scotland and the Pyrenees to the Himalayas. 

 Very wide-ranging, and certainly the parent of the species, V. scrpyl- 

 li folia. 



In Eurasian botany this pubescent larger-flowered plant of moun- 

 tains has repeatedly been distinguished from Veronica serpyUifolia, 

 specifically, varietally, or as but a mountain-form of that species. 

 Among names proposed for it are: Veronica serpyUifolia pubescens 

 Spenner, Fl. Frib. 351. 1826, from Germany; V. serpyUifolia bo- 

 realis Laestad. in Nov. Act. Soc. Ups. 11: 211. 1839, from Sweden; 

 V. serpyUifolia major Baumg., Enum. Stirp. Transsilv. 1: 20. 1816, 

 from Transsilvania; V. serpyUifolia major Schur., Enum. PI. Trans- 

 silv. 500. 1866, also from Transsilvania (name apparently inde- 

 pendently chosen; plant well-described); and V. serpyUifolia al- 

 pina Hook., Brit. Fl. 4. 1830, from Scotland. Veronica fontana 

 Willd.; Link, Jahrb. I 3 : 41. 1820, is a name which has been used in 

 Alaskan botany. 



5 To be expected on all high cordillcras of Mexico and Central America. 





