260 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec., 
1. Veronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell. 
ee virginica L., Sp. Pl. 9. 1753. “Habitat in Virginia.” Grown 
n the Clifford Garden. Certainly the species as ni ct 
Fs ceatedidenin album Moench., Meth. 487. . Veronica 
virginica 
Calistachya alba Raf., Med. Repos. N. Y. IInd Hex. 5: 352. 1808. Based 
on Veronica virginica L. Type of Calistachya Raf., not Callistachys eats 
1804. 
res ee (Raf.) Raf., Cat. 14. 1824. Hustachya Raf., Amer. Mo. 
pe fue a 5 ke 1819, ie a new name for Calistachya Raf. Preoccupied 
De sv., 
Lepitindra te (Raf.) Ref. “Med. Fi. 2: 21. 1830. “The true V, virginica 
- L. . The most common species being found all over the United 
tates. 
aa villosa Raf., l. c. 21. 1830. “Mr. Schweinitz has found it in 
North Carolina.” If the state with the leaves pubescent beneath be 
distinguished as a forma, this name should be used. 
eronicastrum virginicum (L.) Farwell, Drugg. Cire. 61: 231. 1917. 
Varying, in number of leaves in whorl, in inflorescence of one or 
several racemes, and in leaves from lanceolate to nearly ovate, 
pubescent to nearly or quite glabrous beneath. 
Sandy or loam soil, swales or moist meadows, hillside thickets, 
through the southern Appalachians and Piedmont, both east and 
west of the mountains, apparently scarce; rarely Geaiadiie into 
the Coastal Plain. Ranges from Connecticut and Ontario and 
Minnesota, south to Mississippi and Texas. 
Flowering in August, fruiting in September. Corolla white 
throughout, anthers brown. 
27. VERONICA Linné. 
Veronica L., Sp. Pl. 9. 1753. 
Type species, V. officinalis L., of Europe. 
Flowers solitary, axillary, treuanihy approximating so as to form 
a terminal raceme. aves alternate through the inflorescence. 
Pedicels longer than the sepals, usually exceeding the bracts. 
pals ovate. Capsule turgid. Seeds few, 1.3-3 mm. long, 
convex-arched, roughened. Leaves petioled SS the od 
permost sessile), primarily palmately 5-7 nerved, the 
vein usually with some radiating fanaake veins; rainy 
alternate, the lower sometime opposite. 
Leaves broadly cordate, 3-5 lobed, the lches rounded. Sepals 
broadly ovate, aerronasy ciliate. Capsule very turgid, 
scarcely notched at Spee ag reed hia Seeds 
2.5-3 mm. one, blackish V. hederaefolu 
Leaves ovate, serrate to dentate. dette more shortly ciliate. 
Capsule slightly flattened, deeply notched at se thus 
strongly two-lobed. See ds 1.3-1.5 mm. long, bro 
Petals not oe the ovate sepals. Capsule-lobes eieied: 
the most distal point of each about midway between 
the style and the lateral margin. 
2. V. agrestis. 
