100 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



reported are the St. Louis river, Mrs. Herrick, and the Red river (in an open swamp), 

 Dawson, who mentions also a variety of this species near Saint Vincent. 



[A form whicli seems to be a distinct variety, or perhaps a species hitherto unde- 

 scribed, differing much from the ordinary type of G. Virglniana, is reported by Mr. Lei- 

 7jer(/, witli the following description : "Sterile filaments conspicuously tipped with a 

 head ; plant rather robust, 8 to 12 inches high, very smooth when dried, but in the 

 growing state covered with a clammy exudation ; lower leaves lanceolate, entire, short 

 (half an inch long) ; upper leaves somewhat clasping, conspieuously 3- to 5-nerved, ovate 

 or broadly lanceolate, acute, mostly sharply toothed, from an inch to one and a half 

 inches long ; pedicels mostly longer than the leaves ; bractlets under the calyx two, 

 lanceolate, entire or slightly toothed, 5 to 6 lines long, l to v.i lines wide, twice as long 

 and about three times as wide as the sepals ; corolla yellowish white, a half Inch in 

 length.— Abundant In peaty bogs, Nicollet county. June."] 



ILYSANTHES, Raf. False Pimpernel, 



I. gratioloides, Benth. False Pimpernel 



Fort Snelling, Bober'ts; Blue Earth county (common), Leiberg- Emmet county, Iowa 

 (rare), Cratty. South. 



SYNTHYRIS, Benth. Synthtris. 



S. Hoiightoniaiia, Benth. Synthyris. 



Stillwater, Parry; Cannon River Falls, BfaTce, Sandherg; near Saint Paul, Roberts; 

 Chisago and Morrison counties (in the latter common north of Little Falls), Upham. 



VERONICA, L. Speedwell. 



V, Virginica, L. Culver's Physic. 



Common through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley ; extending 

 northeast to the upper Mississippi river. 



V. Auag-allLs , L. Water Speedwell. 



Frequent through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley. 



V. Americana, Schwein American Brooklime. 

 Frequent throughout the state. 



V. scutellata, L. Marsh Speedwell. 



Throughout the state, but infrequent. Bogs, upper Mississippi river, Parry; St, 

 Louis river, Mrs. Merrick; Miuneapolis, Juni, Kassube. [Devil's lake, Dakota, Geyer.] 



[V. serpylllfolia, L., doubtless occurs In this state, but has been overlooked.] 



V. peregrina, L. Neckweed. Purslane Speedwell. 

 Frequent, or common, throughout the state. 



V. arcensis, L. Corn Speedwell. 



Duluth, Juni; Uesper, Iowa, Af rs. Carter. Infrequent. 



BUCHNERA, L. Blue-Heart.«. 



B, Americana, L. Blm-HearcS. 

 Wabasha, Gibson. Rare. Southeast. 



GERARDIA, L, Gerardia. 



G, purpurea, L. Purple Gerardia. 



Common through the south half of the state ; less frequent northward, as at the 

 lake of the Woods, Dawson, and in the Red river valley, Scott, Havard. 



