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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. tournefortii. 



Perennials; flowers in terminal spikes or racemes; leaves of 

 the inflorescence much reduced. 

 All leaves sessile, ovate to oblong; capsules merely 



emarginate , 6. V. wormshjoldii. 



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



capsules obcordate 7. V. scrpyUifolia. 



1. Veronica americana Schwein.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10:468. 1846. 



American brooklime. 



Type locality: "In America boreal i a Canada et Carolina usque ad flum. Oregon 

 et in ins. Sitcha." 



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



New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Tunitcha 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 zones. 



2. Veronica anagaUis-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 microniera Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 174. 1913. 

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

 tion, New Mexico. Tyj^e collected by Standley (no. 7283). 



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



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



Purslane speedwell. 



Veronica peregrina of many authors, not L. 1753. 



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

 ibus Liquidambaris Styracifluae." 



Hange: British America to California and Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; Shiprock; 

 Chama; Mogollon Mountains; Kingston; Organ Mountains; White and Sacramento 

 mountains. Chiefly in the Transition Zone. 



5. Veronica tournefortii K. Gmel. Fl. Badens. 1: 39. 1805. 

 Veronica buxbaumiiTen. Fl. Napol. 1: 7. pi. 1. 1811. 



Type locality: " Prope Carlsruhe in agris am Holzhof, ante aliquot annos ex horto 

 botanico emigrata et nunc quasi spontanea," Germany. 

 New Mexico: Beulah (Cockerell) . 

 A native of Europe, introduced in many places in the United States. 



6. Veronica wormskjoldii Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 1: 101. 1817. 



Alpine speedwell. 

 Type locality: Greenland. 



Range: British America to Arizona and New Hampshire. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. Wet ground, from the Canadian 

 to the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



