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7-10 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. wide, all clasping, the lowest sub- 

 mersed ones elongated. Racemes axillary to the upper leaves, 

 10-20 cm. long, 30-60 flowered. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, 

 4-6 mm. long. Pedicels 3-6 mm. long, glandular-pubescent 

 with scattered hairs. Sepals 3-4 mm. long, lanceolate, acute to 

 acuminate. Corolla about 3 mm. long, not seen fresh. Cap- 

 sule 2.5-3 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. broad, broad-globose, emargi- 

 nate. Seeds .4 mm. long, oval, yellow-brown. 



Type, vicinity of Suffolk, Nansemond County, Virginia, 

 collected in flower and fruit May 27, 1893. N. L. Britton and 

 J. K. Small: in herbarium Columbia University at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Flowering from late May to late July, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Shallow flowing streams, mainly in calcareous soil, through the 

 lower Piedmont from the Delaware valley southwestward.* 

 Ranges from New Jersey to North Carolina, Minnesota and 

 Kentucky. 



New Jersey. Warren : Warrenville, C. S. Williamson (P). 



Pennsylvania. Bucks: Rockhill, A. MacElwee (A); Sellers- 

 ville (A). Chester: West Chester, W. Darlington (A, Y). Lan- 

 caster: Dillerville Swamp, /. K. Small (Y). Montgomery: 

 Conshohocken (A) ; Manayunk, Shannonville /. Crawford (A) 

 Philadelphia: East Park (P) I. C. Martindale (A). Wayne 

 Junction (A). 



15. Veronica scutellata L., Sp. PI. 12. 1753. "Habitat in 

 Europae inundatis." 



Flowering from late May to September, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Swales and along streams, through the area above the Fall- 

 line, becoming common northward. Ranges from Newfound- 

 land to Yukon, south to Virginia, Wyoming and California; 

 also through Eurasia. 



* In the herbarium of the Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, is a 

 sheet of glandifera bearing the inscription " Marl indicator!! Va. M. T." Dr. Barn- 

 hart identifies this comment as that of Michael Tuomey, a teacher in Virginia, who 

 afterward became State Geologist of South Carolina, My only finding of this 

 plant has been on limestone at Natural Bridge, Virginia, Pennell 9802. 



