588 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



New Mexico: Mauguitas Spring; mountains southeast of Patterson; Fort Bayard; 

 Lower Plaza; Hillsboro; Cloverdale; Organ Mountains; White Mountains. Along 

 streams, in the Transition Zone. 



8. Mimulus cardinalis Dougl.; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 28. 1835. 

 Type locality: California. 



Range: Wet ground, Oregon and California to Mexico and western New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Gila Canyon (P. F. Mohr). 



12. CONOBEA Aublet. 



IjOW slender annual with pinnatifid leaves and small axillary flowers; calyx lobes 

 unequal, longer than the tube; corolla 2-lipped; stamens 4, included, the anther 

 sacs parallel, contiguous; styles united, incurved; capsules ovoid-conic, scpticidally 

 dehiscent, the valves entire or 2-cleft; seeds striate. 



1. Conobea intermedia A. Gray in Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 117. 1859. 



Type locality: Dry hills around the Copper Mines, New Mexico. T>'x»e collected 

 by Wright (no. 1485). 



Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 



New Mexico: MogoUon Mountains; Santa Rita. 



13. LIMO SELLA L. Mud wort. 



Small glabrous aquatic plants with fibrous roots, a cluster of entii-e fleshj^ leaves at 

 the nodes of the stolons, and short scapelike naked pedicels from the axils, each 

 bearing a small white flower; calyx campanulate; corolla rotate-campanulate, 5-lobed, 

 nearlj^ regular; stamens 4, the anther cells confluent. 



1. Limosella aquatica L. Sp. PI. 631. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae septentrionalis inundatis." 



Range: British America to California and New Mexico; also in EiU'ope, Asia, and 

 South America. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; West Fork of the Gila; Bartlett Ranch. 

 In mud and shallow water, in the Transition Zone. 



The plants from southern New Mexico have remarkably naiTOW leaves but not so 

 narrow as in L. tenuifolia Hoffm. 



14. VERONICA L. Speedwell. 



Low annual or perennial caulescent herbs with opposite or sometimes alternate, 

 entire or toothed leaves and axillary racemose or spicate flowers; sepals 4, slightly 

 united at the base; corolla whitish or blue, rotate, slightlj' irregular, the lower lobe 

 usually narrowest; stamens 2, on either side of the upper corolla lobe; capsules flat- 

 tened, notched or 2-lobed at the apex. 



KEY to the species. 



Flowers in axillary racemes. 



Leaves all short-petioled, the blades ovate to oblong 1. F. nmericana. 



Leaves mostly sessile, the blades of various shapes. 



Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously ser- 

 rate, 35 mm. long or more, not narrowed at the 



base; sepals not exceeding the capsule 2. T'. anagallis- 



aquatica. 

 Leaves oval or obovate, entire or nearly so, less than 

 30 cm. long, narrowed at the base; sepals con- 

 spicuously exceeding the cajpsule 3. 1". inuromera. 



