FIGWORT FAMILY 793 



Capsule oval to elliptic, not or scarcely notched; leaf -blades lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, serrate 

 with close teeth (4 or more to 1 cm.), those of the young autumnal shoots petioled; plants 

 chiefly or wholly emersed. H- V. Anagalhs-aquatica. 



Capsule obviously wider than long, evidently notched; leaf-blades oblong-lanceolate, crenate-serrate 

 with remote teeth, all clasping; plants largely submersed. 12. V. connaia. 



Capsule more than twice as wide as long, strongly 2-lobed; sepals shorter than the capsule; racemes 5-20- 

 flowered, the filiform pedicels 6-17 mm. long; leaf-blades linear or linear-lanceolate, remotely seta- 

 ceous-toothed or entire. 13. V. scutellata. 



1. Veronica Copelandii Eastw. Copeland's Speedwell. Fig. 4780. 



Veronica Copelandii Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 41: 288. fig. 2. 1906. 



Perennial, with spreading suffrutescent stems, those of the season erect, 0.6-1.2 dm. tall, the 

 herbage softly pilose with some or all of the hairs gland-tipped. Leaf-blades oblong-elliptic, 

 acute or rounded at apex, entire, sessile ; flowers in a terminal small-bracted raceme, the pedicels 

 becoming 6-8 mm. long; sepals 5, elliptic, 2.5 mm. long, the uppermost smaller; corolla 10 mm. 

 wide ; filaments 4-5 mm. long ; style 7 mm. long ; capsule longer than wide, shallowly notched. 



Hudsonian and Arctic- Alpine Zones; Scott Mountains, northern California. Type locality: Mount Eddy, 

 California. August. 



2. Veronica Cusickii A. Gray. Cusick's or Ornamental Speedwell. Fig. 4781. 



Veronica Cusickii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 288. 1878. 



Veronica Allenii Greenm. Bot. Gaz. 25: 263. 1898. 



Veronica Cusickii var. Allenii Macbride & Payson, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 49: 67. 1917. 



Perennial, with spreading suffrutescent stems, those of the season erect, 1-1 . 5 dm. tall, the 

 stems, pedicels, and sepals finely glandular-pubescent. Leaf-blades elliptic-oval, obtuse to acutish, 

 entire, glabrous, sessile; flowers in terminal small-bracted racemes, the pedicels becorning 3-9 

 mm. long ; sepals 4, narrowly ovate, acute to obtuse, 3 mm. long ; corolla 10-13 mm. wide, deep 

 blue-violet ; filaments 4-5 mm. long ; style 6-9 mm. long ; capsule 5-6 mm. long, little longer than 

 wide, deeply notched, finely glandular-pubescent. 



Gravelly soil, openings in coniferous forest and on alpine meadows, Hudsonian and Arctic-Alpine Zones; 

 Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range of Washington, and Cascade Range, Blue, and Wallowa Mountains of 

 Oregon, and south in the Sierra Nevada to Tuolumne County, California. Type locality: Blue Mountains, 

 Oregon. July-Aug. 



3. Veronica Wormskjoldii Roem. & Sch. American Alpine Speedwell. 



Fig. 4782. 



Veronica Wormskjoldii Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 1: 101. 1817. 



Perennial, with slender subaerial rhizomes, the stems of the season erect, 1-3 dm. tall, the 

 stem and leaves loosely pilose but the inflorescence glandular-pubescent. Leaf-blades oval, obtuse 

 or rounded, dentate with low teeth to entire, rounded to sessile bases ; flowers in terminal small- 

 bracted racemes, the pedicels becoming 2-5 mm. long ; sepals 4, oblanceolate, obtuse, 4 mm. long ; 

 corolla 6-7 mm. wide, blue-violet ; filaments 1 mm. long ; style 1-2 mm. long ; capsule 5-7 mm. 

 long, oval, widely retuse ; seeds 1 mm. long. 



Alpine meadows, Arctic- Alpine Zone; Alaska to Greenland, south to Oregon, Wyoming, and New Hamp- 

 shire. Type locality: Greenland. June-Aug. 



Veronica Wormskjoldii subsp. alterniflora (Fernald) Pennell. (Veronica alpina var. alterniflora Fer- 

 nald, Rhodora 41: 455. pi. 567. 1939; V. alpina var. cascadc^isis Fernald, op. cit. 456. pi. 568.) Inflorescence 

 more slender, the fruits usuallv becoming somewhat isolated (instead of contiguous or overlapping). Alpine 

 meadows, Arctic-Alpine Zone; Alaska to California and Utah. Type locality: Cape Horn, Custer County, Idaho. 

 June-Aug. 



4. Veronica serpyllifolia L. Thyme-leaved Speedwell. Fig. 4783. 



Veronica serpyllifolia L. Sp. PI. 12. 1753. 



Perennial, with slender subaerial rhizomes, the stems of the season repent with the distal 

 portion erect and fruit-bearing, altogether 1-2 dm. long, with fine appressed hairs on the stem and 

 pedicels. Leaf-blades ovate-oblong or oval, crenate to entire, rounded to sessile or the lower to 

 shortly petioled bases ; flowers in terminal small-bracted racemes, the pedicels becoming 4-5 mm. 

 long; sepals 4, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 3-4 mm. long; corolla 4-5 mm. wide, pale or white, the 

 upper lobes with violet lines; filaments 1 mm. long; style 1.5-2 mm. long; capsule 3 mm. long, 

 widely obcordate (4 mm. wide), finely glandular-pubescent; seeds 0.5 mm. long. 



Moist pasture land, at least in western Oregon. Naturalized from Eurasia. April-June. 



Veronica serpyllifolia var. humifusa (Dickson) Vahl, Enum. 1: 65. 180S. (Veronica humifusa Dickson, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 288. 1794; V. funesta Macbride & Payson, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 49: 68. 1917.) Pedi- 

 cels and stems distally with longer mostly spreading hairs; plant usually larger, the corolla wider, pale violet, 

 and the capsule mostly 4-5 nun. long. Moist soil, often in pastures, Transition and Hudsonian_ Zones; Alaska 

 to Newfoundland, south to San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Maine; 

 also in South America and Eurasia. Type locality: Scotland. April-July. 



5. Veronica peregrina L. Purslane Speedwell. Fig. 4784. 



Veronica peregrina L. Sp. PI. 14. 1753. 



Annual, erect, 1.5-3 dm. tall, glabrous throughout. Leaf -blades linear-oblong, obtuse, dentate 

 to entire, sessile or the lower somewhat petioled; flowers in spiciform leafy-bracted terminal 

 racemes, the pedicels only 1-2 mm. long; sepals 4, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, 3 mm. 



