Volume 6 August 26, 1910 



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NOTES FROM NORTHERN UTAH— II 



By C. P. Smith 



Amongst my collections of 1909 are some introduced plants 

 which perhaps are worthy of record, since I am unable to find 

 any report of their occurrence in North America, at least escaped 

 from cultivation. 



Galega officinalis L. This plant is a native of south- 

 ern Europe, and may be sometimes cultivated in this country, 

 since it, and the other species of the genus, as now limited, are 

 described in Bailey's Encyclopedia of American Horticulture, 

 tho they are not mentioned in Gray's Field, Forest and Garden 

 Botany. None of onr text books mention them, and I was un- 

 able to determine my collection. 



Its nearest affinities are probably with the genus ( racca, 

 since Linnaeus, in the second edition of his work, referred his 

 species of Cracca to the genus Galega. G. officinalis is a peren- 

 nial, and is certainly well established in an alfalfa field, and 

 along a roadside nearby, in the Greenville district, near Logan. 

 Determined by M. L. Fernald. 



My only collection of it thus far is: No. 20/8, Cache county, 

 Logan, 14 August, 1909. 



Veronica campylopoda Boiss. Common in an alfalfa 

 field on the Utah Agricultural College farm. A native of Syria, 

 northern Persia, etc., this plant has evidently been introduced 

 here with alfalfa or other crop seeds; but I have been unable to 

 learn just how or when it made its appearance. Its nearest ally, 

 at least so far as our forms are concerned, is I'. Tournefortii Q.. 

 C. Gmel. (7". Buxbaumii Tenore; / '. byzantina B. S. P.), to 



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