WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 589 



Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes or solitary in the axils of 

 the leaves. 

 Annuals; flowers solitary in the axils of the little reduced 

 leaves. 

 Pedicels shorter than the oblong to linear cauline leaves. .4. V. xalapensis. 



Pedicels longer than the ovate cauline leaves 5. V. tourvcfortii. 



Perennials; flowers in terminal spikes or racemes; leaves of 

 the inflorescence much reduced. 

 All leaves sessile, ovate to oblong; capsules merely 



emarginate 6. V. wormskjoldii. 



Lower leaves petioled, the blades rounded-oval to oblong; 



capsules obcordate 7. V. scrpyllifolia. 



1. Veronica americana Sehwein.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10:468.1846. 



American isrooklime. 



Type locality: "In America boreali a Canada et Carolina usque ad num. Oregon 

 et in ins. Sitcha." 



Range: British America to California, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. 



New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Tuniteha Mountains; Farmington; Chama; 

 Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Gallo Spring; West Fork of the Gila; Reserve; 

 White and Sacramento mountains. Along streams, in the Upper Sonoran and Transi- 

 tion zom 



2. Veronica anagallis-aquatica L. Sp. PI. 12. 1753. Water speedwell. 

 Type locality: '"Habitat in Europa ad fossas." 



Range: British America to Arizona and North Carolina. 

 New Mexico: Rio Mimbres (Thurber 217). Along streams. 



3. Veronica micromera Wont, ct Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: L74. 1913. 

 Type locality: Along ditches in the vicinity of Shiprock, on the Navajo Reserva- 



i i < > 1 1 , New Mexico. Type collected by Standley (no. 7283). 

 Range: Known only from type locality, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



4. Veronica xalapensis II. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 389. 1817. 



Purslane speedwell. 



Veronica peregrina of many authors, not L. 1753. 



Type locality: "Creecitiii Regno Mexicano prope Xalapa (alt. 630 hex.), in nemor- 

 ibus Liquidambai is St\ racifluae." 



Range: British America to California and Mexico. 



Xew Mexico: Santa IV and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountain.-; Shiprock; 

 Chama; Mogollon Mountains; Kingston; Organ Mountains; \\1iite and Sacramento 

 mountains. Chiefly in the Transition^Zone. 



5. Veronica tournefortii K. Gmel. Fl. Badens. 1: 30. 1805. 

 Veronica buxbaumii Ten, I'l. Napol. 1: 7. pi. I. L811. 



Type locality: " Prope < iarlsruhe in agris am Eolzhof, ante aliquot annos ex horto 



Etta el nunc quasi spontanea," Germany. 

 N i.w M bxico: Beulah 1 1 'och r, 11). 

 A Dative of Europe, introduc< d in many places in the United Statos. 



6. Veronica wormskjoldii Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 1: KM. L817. 



Alpine spbi d* i i l 

 Type loc ojty: Greenland. 



Range: British America to Arizona and Now Hampshire. 



Xi w M exico: Santa Feand l .>- Vegas mountains. Wei ground, from the C a n a di a n 

 to the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



