or to produce prostrate lower branches; leaves opposite or the reduced upper ones 

 alternate, elliptic to broadly ovate, 1-2.5 cm. long and to 1.5 cm. wide, rounded 

 to somewhat acute at apex, glabrous or nearly so, entire to slightly toothed, 

 the lowermost leaves sometimes short-petiolate; flowers pedicellate in definite 

 terminal racemes that become lax and elongate, at least the upper bracts usually 

 alternate; corolla 4-8 mm. wide when expanded; styles 2-3.5 mm. long; capsules 

 finely and sometimes sparsely glandular-pubescent, notched, 3-4 mm. high and 

 somewhat broader; seeds numerous. 



In wet meadows and seepage about lakes and ponds, in N. M. (Taos, Santa Fe, 

 San Miguel. Rio Arriba and San Juan cos.) and Ariz. (Apache, Coconino, 

 Greenlee, Graham and Cochise cos.), June-Aug.; throughout most of N.A.; Euras. 



4. Veronica americana (Raf.) Schwein. American brooklime. 700. 



Fleshy and more or less succulent glabrous perennial with creeping to decum- 

 bent bases; stems to about 1 dm. long; principal leaves of middle and upper part 

 of flowering stems distinctly petioled, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, somewhat 

 acute, to about 9 cm. long, the margins serrate to dentate; racemes lax, with 

 arching rachises, axillary below the prolonged tip, 6- to 30-flowered; pedicels to 

 about 1 1 mm. long, the lower mature ones filiform and divergent; corolla light 

 bluish-violet; capsule turgid, suborbicular. 



In shallow water or wet sandy soil of gravelly streams, in marshes and about 

 springs in Okla. (Grady Co.), in the Tex. Edwards Plateau (Kendall Co.), N. M. 

 (rather widespread) and Ariz. (Apache, Navajo and Coconino, s. to Gila and 

 Pinal COS.), June-Aug.; from Nfld. w. to Alas., s. to N.C., Tex., Mex. and 

 Calif.; also n.e. Asia. 



5. Veronica Anagallis-aquatica L. Water speedwell, brook-pimpernel. Fig. 



701. 



Usually perennial, glabrous throughout or obscurely glandular-puberulent in 

 the inflorescence; stems shortly creeping and rooting at base, then ascending to 

 erect, to 1 m. high; leaves sessile, rounded to clasping bases, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, serrate to merely denticulate, those of autumnal shoots smaller and 

 rounded; flowers many in small-bracted axillary racemes; pedicels 6-8 mm. long; 

 sepals 4, lanceolate, acute, 4-4.5 mm. long; corolla 5-6 mm. wide, pale-lavender, 

 the lobes with violet lines; style 1.8-2.5 mm. long; capsule 4 mm. long, more or 

 less orbicular, obtuse at the narrowed obscurely notched apex; seeds about 0.5 

 mm. long. 



Usually in water of streams and in gravelly-sandy soils, swamps and irrigation 

 ditches, in Okla. (Grady, Alfalfa. Caddo and Cimarron cos.), in cen. and n.-cen. 

 (Fannin Co.) Tex., N. M. (widespread) and Ariz. (Apache to Mohave, s. to 

 Graham, Gila and Pinal cos.), Mar.-Oct.; throughout N.A., naturalized from 

 Euras. 



6. Veronica catenata Penn. 



Plant glabrous, very similar to V. Anagallis-aquatica; stems submersed or 

 distally emersed; leaves sessile, clasping, oblong-lanceolate, usually 3 to 5 times 

 as long as wide, essentially entire; racemes axillary, few-flowered; sepals broad 

 and obtusish; corolla white to pink or pale-bluish; fruiting pedicels divaricately 

 spreading; capsules obcordate. prominently apically notched, mostly a little wider 

 than high. V. connata Raf. subsp. glaberrima Penn. 



Scattered in marshes and bogs, and in water of slow-moving streams and 

 ditches, in Ariz. (Yavapai Co.), June-Aug.; Mass. and Ont. to Sask. and Wash., 

 s. to Pa., Tenn., Ariz, and Calif.; also Eur. 



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