]56 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



S. U. I., Vol. 4, p. 207; Iowa Geol Sur , Vol. 10, p. 179; Halsted, Bull. 

 State Agr. Col., Nov., 18SS,p.51; Fitzpatrick, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sciences, 

 Vol. 5, p. 124, and p. 157; Manual Fi. Plants of Iowa, p. 124. 



Veronica Americana Scliireiii.; Beiith. in D. C. Prodr. 

 10:4GS. 184:0. American Brooiilime. 



Veronica bcccabunga Auc. Amer. Vet. 



Veronica intermedia Schwein. Am. Journ. Sci. (I^, 8:268. 1824. 



J'eronica anagallis Bong. Veg. Sitka. 1841. 



This species is similar to Veronica ((iiagallis-aqiiafica, hut 

 is stoloniferous and the leaves are petioled and serrate. 

 SI ems branched, decumbent, glabrous; leaves ovate, 

 oblon,<j^, or oblong-lanceolate; the bases truncate, rounded 

 or subcordate, the apex acutish or obtuse. 



Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora states that this 

 species occurs in brooks and swamps and that the range is 

 from Anticosta to Alaska, south to Pennsylvania, Nebraska, 

 New Mexico, and California. We have specimens from 

 Penns3dvania, Minnesota, and Wyoming. The species in 

 all probability occurs in Iowa, but we have seen no speci- 

 mens. Professor Arthur reported the species from Lee 

 county, which is the only reference to Iowa save one we 

 have noticed. His report was based on a specimen fur- 

 nished by Dr. George E. Ehinger of Keokuk. Dr. Parry 

 reported the species from Iowa but gave no locality. The 

 time of blooming is given as being from April until Sep- 

 tember. 



Arthur, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sciences, Vol. 2, p. 126; Fitzpat- 

 rick, i'.Ianual F"!. Plants of Iowa, p. 124; Parry, Owen's Report Geol. Sur. 

 Wis., la. & Minn., p. 616. 



Veronica scutellata L. Sp. PI. 12. 1753. Marsh Speed- 

 well. 



Stem 6 — 20 inches high, decumbent or ascending, usually 

 rooting at the nodes below, glabrous or sparingly pubes- 

 cent, perennial by leafy shoots or stolons; leaves linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, sessile, slightly clasping, remotely den- 

 ticulate; flowers blue, in axillary racemes; capsule very 

 Hat, broader than high, emarginate above, cordate below. 



