36 Rhodora [February 



Veronica micromera Wooton & Standley in Contrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 16: 174. 1913. " Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 

 686250, collected along ditches about Shiprock, on the Navajo 

 Reservation [New Mexico], July 25, 1911, by Paul C. Standley (no. 

 7283). Altitude 1,425 meters." Type seen in U. S. National 

 Herbarium. A dwarf form, with small leaves which are more ob- 

 viously narrowed at base. 



Slow-flowing streams, wide-spread through North and South 

 America; specimens seen from Michigan, Utah, New Mexico, Ariz- 

 ona, Argentina and Chile. Also of wide occurrence in Eurasia; 

 specimens seen from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Albania, Algeria 

 and Syria. Of this critical species-group this is the most widely 

 dispersed and probably the original element. 



25a. Veronica Anagallis-aquatica Brittonii (Porter) Pennell, 



comb. nov. 



Veronica Anagallis latifolia Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 12: 



49. 1885. " In the latter part of September, 1883, 



near Mahwah, Bergen Co., New Jersey, I noticed [it] in a small 

 stream . . . ." Type seen in Herb. Columbia University. 

 Not V. Anagallis latifolia Schultz, Prod. Fl. Stargard. Suppl. 3. 

 1819 (which is V. Anagallis-aquatica L.). 



Veronica Brittonii Porter; Pennell in Torreya 19: 168. 1919. 

 "Type, base of Marble Hill, above Phillipsburg, New Jersey, col- 

 lected in flower and fruit June 24, 1892, T. C. Porter; in herbarium 

 Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden." 



Slow-flowing streams, western Connecticut to northern Pennsyl- 

 vania. For list of localities see Torroya 19: 170. 1919. 

 Perhaps not worthy of even varietal distinction. 



26. Veronica glandifera Pennell 



Veronica perfoliata Raf., New Fl. Am. 4: 37. 1838. "Florida." 

 Description almost certainly of the plant now considered, which 

 however is not authentically known from so far south. The clasp- 

 ing opposite leaves of V. glandifera, till closely seen, appear connate. 

 Not V. perfoliata R. Br.', 1810. 



Veronica glandifera Pennell in Torreya 19: 170. 1919. "Type, 

 vicinity of Suffolk, Nansemond County, Virginia, collected in flower 

 and fruit, May 27, 1893, N. L. Britton and J. K. Small; in herbarium 

 Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden." 



Slow-flowing streams, in limestone, Virginia and Ohio to North 

 Carolina and Tennessee. Perhaps intergrades with V. catenata 

 glandxdosa. 



The petioled leaves of late-summer shoots are well shown on speci- 

 mens of Bruce Fink 262 from Oxford, Ohio, collected August 8, 1908. 



