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by examining many flowers ; but I venture to 

 deem it a N. G. near Veronica and Amphian- 

 thus of Torrey. The name was an ancient one 

 of Plantago of which it has quite the habit. 



821. Atirsita pumila Raf. Eryngium gra- 

 cile ! Nuttal, Er ! plantagineum CoUins, leaves 

 petiolate and subsessile, ovate smooth, uninerve, 

 unequaly dentate or gashed, scape shorter than 

 leaves terete villose, head ovoid — collected in 

 Arkanzas by Nuttal, leaves and scapes hardly 

 over one inch long, leaves variously cut, some- 

 times nearly entire, with few or several teeth, 

 scape thick very short, head small, without any 

 visible bracts, calix and corollas obtuse, corolla 

 hardly longer white, annual, vernal. One of my 

 specimen appears a variety serrata^ leaves sub- 

 sessile subserrate, scape not longer than the 

 head. 



822. Veronica perfoliata R. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate smooth acute subserrate, base connate ; 

 racemes axillary pedunculate pubescent, flow- 

 ers fastigiate or geminate, bracts lanceolate as 

 long as pedicels, calix segments equal ovate 

 acute. — Florida, mistaken for a Justicia by 

 Collins, near to F, anagallis^ but a larger plant, 

 leaves 3 or 4 inches long, not entire but remote- 

 ly serrate, racemes not much longer, flowers 

 only above rather crowded, corolla blue hardly 

 exceeding the calix. 



823. Veronica coNNATA Raf. atl.j. 150. erect 

 smooth, stem fistulose, leaves connate lanceo- 

 late entire acute ; racemes axil, divaricate elon- 

 gate lax, bracts linear half of pedicels. — V^^est 

 Kentucky near waters, annual, vernal, akin to 

 F. scutellata, but broader and shorter leaves 

 uncial, capsules bilobed compressed. In this 



