[Reprinted from Torreya, Vol. 19, No. 9, September, 1919. ] 



SCROPHULARIACEAE OF THE LOCAL FLORA. Ill 



By Francis W. Pennell 



[. Veronicastrum Heister; Fabr. Enum. meth. pi. Hort. 



Helmstead. in. 1759 

 Type species, Veronica virginica L. 

 Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell. 

 Veronica virginica L. Sp. PI. 9. 1753. "Habitat in Vir- 

 ginia." Grown in the Clifford garden. 



Veronicastrum album Moench, Meth. 437. 1794. " 



Veronica virginica L." 



Calistachya alba Raf. in Med. Repos. N. Y. II. Hex. 

 5:352. 1808. 

 Based on Veronica virginica L. Type of Calistachya 

 Raf., not Callistachys Vent., 1804. 

 Leptandra virginica (L.) Nutt. Gen. N. Am. PI. 1: 7. 1818. 



Type of Leptandra Nutt. 

 Eustachya alba (Raf.) Raf., Cat. 14. 1824. Eustachya 

 Raf. in Am. Mo. Mag. 4: 190. 1819, was a new name 

 for Calistachya Raf. Preoccupied by Eustachys Desv., 

 1810. 

 Leptandra alba Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 21. 1830. "The true 



V. virginica of L The most common species 



being found all over the United States." 

 Paederota virginica (L.) Torr., Fl. N. Y. 2: 44. 1843. 

 Calistachya virginica (L.) Farwell in Mich. Acad. Sci. Rep. 



17: 176. 1915. 

 Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell, Drugg. Circ. 61 : 

 231. 1917. 



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