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1. Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell. 



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

 in the Clifford Garden. Certainly the species here considered. 



Veronicastrum album Moench., Meth. 437. 1794. ". . . Veronica 

 virginica L." 



Calistachya alba Raf., Med. Repos. N. Y. Ilnd Hex. 5: 352. 1808. Based 



on Veronica virginica L. Type of Calistachya Raf., not Callistachys Vent., 



1804. 

 Eustachya alba (Raf.) Raf., Cat. 14. 1824. Eustachya Raf., Amer. Mo. 



Mag. 4: 190. 1819, was a new name for Calistachya Raf. Preoccupied 



by Eiistachys Desv., 1810. 

 Leptandra alba (Raf.) Raf., Med. Fl. 2: 21. 1830. "The true V. virginica 



of L. . . . The most common species being found all over the United 



States." 

 Leptandra villosa Raf., 1. c. 21. 1830. "Mr. Schweinitz has found it in 



North Carolina." If the state with the leaves pubescent beneath be 



distinguished as a forma, this name should be used. 

 Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell, Drugg. Circ. 61: 231. 1917. 



Varying, in number of leaves in whorl, in inflorescence of one or 

 several racemes, and in leaves from lanceolate to nearly ovate, 

 pubescent to nearly or quite glabrous beneath. 



Sandy or loam soil, swales or moist meadows, hillside thickets, 

 through the southern Appalachians and Piedmont, both east and 

 west of the mountains, apparently scarce; rarely descending into 

 the Coastal Plain. Ranges from Connecticut and Ontario and 

 Minnesota, south to Mississippi and Texas. 



Flowering in August, fruiting in September. Corolla white 

 throughout, anthers brown. 



27. VERONICA Linne. 



Veronica L., Sp. PI. 9. 1753. 



Type species, V. officinalis L., of Europe. 



Flowers solitary, axillary, frequently approximating so as to form 

 a terminal raceme. Leaves alternate through the inflorescence. 

 Pedicels longer than the sepals, usually exceeding the bracts. 

 Sepals ovate. Capsule turgid. Seeds few, 1.3-3 mm. long, 

 convex-arched, roughened. Leaves petioled (rarely the up- 

 permost sessile), primarily palmately 5-7 nerved, the mid- 

 vein usually with some radiating pinnate veins; mainly 

 alternate, the lower sometime opposite. 

 Leaves broadly cordate, 3-5 lobed, the lobes rounded. Sepals 

 broadly ovate, conspicuously ciliate. Capsule very turgid, 

 scarcely notched at apex, only slightly 2-lobed. Seeds 

 2.5-3 mm. long, blackish. L V. hederaefolia. 



Leaves ovate, serrate to dentate. Sepals more shortly ciliate. 

 Capsule slightly flattened, deeply notched at apex, thus 

 strongly two-lobed. Seeds L3-L5 mm. long, brown. 

 Petals not exceeding the ovate sepals. Capsule-lobes rounded, 

 the most distal point of each about midway between 

 the style and the lateral margin. 



2. V. agrestis. 



