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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, J. K. Small (Y). Montgomery: 
Conshohocken (A); Manayunk, Shannonville J. Crawford (A) 
Philadelphia: East Park (P) I. C. Martindale (A). Wayne 
Junction (A). 
I5. VERONICA SCUTELLATA L., Sp. Pl..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@ 
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, wht. 
_ afterward became State Geologist of South Carolina, My only finding of ee 
plant has been on limestone at Natural Bridge, Virginia, Pennell 9802. 
