590 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



7. Veronica serpyllifolia L. Sp. PI. 12. 1753. Thyme-leaved speedwell. 



Veronica serpyllifolia neomexicana Cockerell, Amer. Nat. 40: 872. 1906. 



Type locality: ''Habitat in Europa & America septentrionali, ad vias, agros." 



Range: British America to California, New Mexico, and Georgia; also in Europe. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. 

 Wet meadows, in the Transition Zone. 



The type of V. serpyllifolia neomexicana was collected on the top of the Las Vegas 

 Range. 



15. BESSEYA Rydb. 



Perennial herbs with simple scapose stems and toothed leaves, these mostly basal, 

 the cauline ones reduced; flowers small, the inflorescence spicate; calyx 4-parted, 

 with oblong divisions; corolla short-campanulate, 4-parted, somewhat irregular; 

 stamens 2, exserted, the anther cells not confluent, mostly parallel; capsules com- 

 pressed, obtuse or emarginate. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Upper lip of corolla twice as long as the calyx; plants 10 to 15 cm. 



high 1. B. alpina. 



Upper lip of corolla only slightly exceeding the calyx; plants 



15 to 30 cm. high 2. B. plantaginea. 



1. Besseya alpina (A. Gray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 280. 1903. 

 Synthyris alpina A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 34: 251. 1862. 

 Type locality: Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 



Range: Wyoming to New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Pecos Baldy; Wheeler Peak. Meadows, in the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



2. Besseya plantaginea (Benth.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 280. 1903. 

 Synthyris plantaginea Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 455. 1846. 



Type locality: "Ad origines flum. Platte." 

 Range: Wyoming to Arizona and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe' and Las Vegas mountains; White Mountain Peak. In 

 woods, Transition to Hudsonian Zone. 



16. DASYSTOMA Raf. False foxglove. 



Perennial herb, 30 to 60 cm. high, with slender erect stems, linear leaves, and long- 

 pediceled flowers from the axils of the reduced upper leaves, the inflorescence becom- 

 ing somewhat racemose; sepals 5, united below; corolla yellow, open-funnelform, 

 slightly irregular, the lobes spreading; stamens 4, included, the filaments pubescent; 

 capsules acute, beaked, loculicidal. 



1. Dasystoma wrightii (A. Gray) Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 

 171. 1913. 

 Gerardia wrightii A. Gray in Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 118. 1859. 

 Type locality: "Hill sides between Babocomori and Santa Cruz, Sonora." 

 Range: Arizona and New Mexico and adjacent Mexico. 

 New Mexico: San Luis Mountains (Mearns 2435). 



17. ADENOSTEGIA Benth. C --^ 



Annual, 30 to 40 cm. high., freely branched, scabrous-puberulent, with crowded ter- 

 minal spikes of dull yellow flowers, and with alternate pinnatifid leaves with linear 

 segments; calyx spathelike, of 1 or 2 lobes, not colored; corolla tubular, the lips sub- 

 equal; stamens 4, the anther cells dissimilar, ciliate or bearded; style hooked at the 

 apex. 



