38 Rhodora [February 



Ballast, Portland, Oregon, and Mobile, Alabama. Introduced 

 from southeastern Asia, where it occurs from northern India through 

 southern China, and in Japan. 



Occasionally nearly or quite glabrous, but then readily distinguished 

 by the small size of the capsule and style. 



29. Veronica scutellata L. 



Veronica scutellata L., Sp. PI. 12. 1753. "Habitat in Europae 

 inundatis." Diagnosis quoted from Linne, Fl. Suec. 4. no. 9. 1745, 

 where the plant is said to grow in Sweden "in locis per hyemem 

 inundatis frequens." Evidently the plant now considered. 



Veronica uliginosa Raf. in Am. Mo. Mag. 2: 175. 1818. "Ver- 

 onica scutellata Pursh . . . . Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 11." In his 

 Fl. Am. Sept. 11. 1814, Pursh states of "Veronica scutellata" that 

 "the American plant has longer leaves than any of the European 

 specimens I have seen," a condition not verified by the material at 

 hand to-day though Pursh's statement evidently misled Rafinesque 

 into assuming for it specific distinctness. 



Veronica connata Raf., Med. Fl. 2: 110. 1830. "In west Ken- 

 tucky. " Very briefly characterized and leaves said to be " connate; " 

 surely they were merely cordate-clasping and opposite. 



Meadows and swales, Newfoundland and Yukon to Virginia, 

 Indiana, Wyoming, and California. 



Occasionally occurs in a form more or less pubescent throughout, 

 forma villosa (Schumacher) Pennell [Veronica scutellata villosa Schu- 

 macher, Enum. PI. Saell. 1: 7. 1801; also V. scutellata pilosa Vahl, 

 Enum. PI. 1: 70. 1805; V. scutellata pubescens Koch, Syn. Fl. 

 Germ, et Helv. 524. 1837.]. This occurs sporadically occasional 

 throughout the range of the species. 



III. HEBE Commerson 



Hebe Comerson; [Juss., Gen. PI. 105. 1789, generic diagnosis 

 only;] J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 2: 27. 1791. Type species, Hebe 

 magellanica J. F. Gmel. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate to a small blunt tip, entire, not 

 revolute, 6-7 cm. long. Racemes 5-13 cm. long, many- 

 flowered. Sepals acuminate, 2-3 mm. long. Corolla 

 with the oblong lobes shorter than or but little longer 

 than the narrow tube. Stamens and style longer than 

 the corolla and conspicuously exserted, the latter 

 slender, 5-6 mm. long. Capsule oval in outline, rela- 

 tively thin-walled. Stem minutely pubescent when 

 young, especially between and proximad to bases of 

 leaves, becoming glabrate; bark slightly wrinkled in 

 drying. 



