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• • • . In America boreali a Canada et Carolina usque 

 ad flum. Oregon et in ins. Sitcha • • • (v. s.) " Speci- 

 men seen in herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia, labeled "Bethl." [Bethlehem, 

 Pennsylvania], collected by Schweinitz, may be of collec- 

 tion seen by Bentham. 

 Flowering from late May to mid-August, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Springheads in woodland, and along cool streams, in potassic 

 soil, frequent throughout the area above the Fall-line; in nor- 

 thern and westernmost Long Island. Ranges from Quebec to 

 Alaska, south to South Carolina, New Mexico and California. 

 13. Veronica Brittonii Porter sp. no v. 



Veronica Anagallis latifolia Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club 12: 49. 1885. "In the latter part of September, 

 1883, • • • near Mahwah, Bergen Co., New Jersey, I 

 noticed [this] in a small stream which crosses the N. Y. 

 L. E. & W. R. R., half a mile or so north of the station." 

 Type seen in herbarium of Columbia University at the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



Stem 3-9 dm. long, glabrous, succulent, hollow. Leaves 

 oblong-ovate to oval, acute, crenate-serrate to nearly entire, 

 5-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, clasping, the lowest narrowed to 

 a petiolar base. On autumnal shoots all the leaves are ovate 

 and definitely petioled. Racemes axillary to the upper leaves, 

 6-12 cm. long, 40-60 flowered. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, 

 4-5 mm. long. Pedicels 3.5-4.5 mm. long, glabrous. Sepals 

 3-3.5 mm. long, lance-ovate, acute. Corolla 4 mm. long, with 

 a few hairs within throat, pale-blue, paler anteriorly, with longi- 

 tudinal reddish-violet lines. Capsule 3-3.5 mm. long, globose- 

 ovoid, acutish. Seeds .4 mm. long, oval, yellow-brown. 



Type, base of Marble Hill, above Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 

 collected in flower and fruit June 24, 1892, T. C. Forter; in her- 

 barium Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden. 

 This specimen shows the summer state. Specimens collected 

 at the same station October 9, 1892, show excellently the autum- 

 nal condition. 



In the herbarium of Columbia University is a manuscript 



