1921] Pennell, — "Veronica" in North and South America 15 



ing to Chamisso and Schlechtendahl, in Linnaea 2: 557. 1827: 



" Veronica Stelleri Pallas in Herb. Willd. n. 192 quam 



e Camtschatca et e Curilis Pallas habuit, in Unalaschka insula Aleu- 

 torum legimus frequentem." By them very fully described, and 

 contrasted with their V. alpina unalaschkensis. Specimen from 

 "Mts. of Unalaska, 2000 ft.," collected by A. Kellogg no. 295, seen 

 in United States National Herbarium. 



On the Aleutian and Pribiloff Islands, Alaska. 

 9. Veronica Wormskjoldii Roem. & Schult. 



Veronica Wormskjoldii R. & S., Syst. 1: 101. 1817. "V. villosa 

 Wormskjold .... In Gronlandia." Evidently the species 

 now considered. 



Veronica alpina unalaschkensis C. & S. in Linnaea 2: 556. 1827. 

 " Legimus [Chamisso et Eschscholtz] in montosis insulae Unalaschka 

 Aleutorum." Collections from Unalaska made by C. F. Baker 

 4988, W. L. Jepson 86, 135, C. H. Merriam in 1891, and C. V. Piper 

 4527, seen. 



Veronica alpina Wormskjoldii (R. & S.) Hook, in Bot. Mag. 57: 

 pi. 2975. 1830. 



Veronica mollis Raf., New Fl. Am. 4: 38. 1838. "From Origon, 

 seen alive in gardens." Apparently this species is intended, but the 

 flowers are described as "pale blue" and "large." 



Veronica alpina villosa (Wormskj.) Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. 261. 

 1887. "(V. villosa Wormskj. mscr.) . . . . V. Gr. [West 

 Greenland]: Avangnardlek 62° 25' (Hoist.)." 



Moist, grassy ledges and meadows, West Greenland, northern 

 Labrador, Gaspe County, Quebec, Hudson Bay, and Alaska, south- 

 ward, in the east on Mt. Katahdin, Maine, 3 and the White Mountains, 

 New Hampshire, in the west through the Rocky Mountains to north- 

 ern New Mexico, the San Francisco Mountains of Arizona and the 

 Ruby Mountains of Nevada, and through the Cascade Mountains 

 and Sierra Nevada to California. 



There appears to be a tendency for plants of the Pacific ranges 

 from Alaska to California to have styles slightly longer, usually J^ 

 to }/% the length of the capsule, rather than \\ to 34- Northward is 

 the following more pronounced variant. 



9a. Veronica Wormskjoldii nutans (Bong.) Pennell, comb. nov. 



Veronica nutans Bong, in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 2: 157. 1833. 

 "Dr. Mertens a . . . cueillies a l'ile de Sitcha. " An old speci- 

 men in Herb. Columbia University labeled simply " Veronica nutans 

 Bong. Sitcha," may be an isotype. 



3 Reported by Fernald, in Rhodora 3: 176. 1901 (as V. alpina L.). 



