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Veronica reniformis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 10. 1814. " Collected 

 by Messrs. Lewis and Clark in boggy soil, on the banks of the Miss- 

 ouri . . . . v. s. in Herb. Lewis." Type was apparently a 

 plant collected on Hungry Creek, in what is now Montana, June 26, 

 1806, and an isotype of this in the Herbarium of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was determined by Robinson and 

 Greenman [in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1898: 39. 1898] as 

 Synthyris reniformis major Hook. Pursh's description is inaccurate, 

 but I think must certainly apply to this collection which is the 

 species, S. major (Hook.) Heller. 



Veronica rotundifolia Ruiz & Pa von, Fl. Peruv. et Chil. 1 : 6. 1798. 

 "Habitat copiose in Peruviae uliginosis ad Pillao vicum." This is a 

 species of Sibthorpia. 



Veronica sparsiflora Raf., Atl. Jour. 79. 1832. Described from 

 a plant in the Bartram Botanical Garden, Philadelphia, Pa., which 

 was said to have been "native of Arkansas or Texas, received from 

 Prof. Nuttall." I know of no American species at all fitting this 

 description: "stem erect, simple round solid, leaves opposite sessile 

 cuneate oblong entire obtuse. Raceme terminal lax very long, 

 flowers scattered, bracts linear oblong obtuse, pedicels filiform. 



Capsules bilobed subcompressed. Annual Stem 1 or 



2 feet high. Flowers vernal purpurescent handsome. Corolla 



rotate, segments of the calix unequal oblong, obtuse " 



Is it a foreign species, or not a Veronica? 



New York Botanical Garden. 



