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Gratiola Virginiana, L. 
Lynn, near Flax pond (Tracy, H. A. Young); Lawrence (J. R.); 
Andover (Mrs. Downs). Scarce. 
Gratiola aurea, Muhl. 
Shores of ponds and swamps. Common. There is a white variety 
of this species which grows in Bowler Swamp, Lynn. 
Ilysanthes gratioloides, Benth. (FALSE PIMPERNEL. ) 
Bowler Swamp, Lynn; Chebacco, North Andover, Gloucester, etc. 
Frequent. 
Veronica Anagallis, Z. (WaTER SPEEDWELL. ) 
‘So thick in many ditches as almost tochoke them up. Margins of 
Breed’s pond and similar boggy localities” (Tracy’s Lynn Flora). 
Veronica Americana, Schweinitz (V. Beccabunga of Am. Au- 
thors). 
** Outlet of Mineral spring pond. Perhaps the locality referred to 
by Higginson” (memo. Dr. Chas. Pickering). 
Veronica scutellata, Z. (Marsh SPEEDWELL.) 
Among other plants in wet places. 
Veronica serpyliifolia, ZL. 
Low roadsides and other moist places. 
Veronica peregrina, L. 
A weed in damp places. 
Veronica arvensis, Z. (CorN SPEEDWELL.) 
‘Rare. Holmes’s mill, Walnut street, Lynn” (Tracy) ; ‘‘Salem Great 
Pastures, 1842” (memo. Rev. J. L. Russell); Danvers (Dr. Os- 
good’s list) ; Essex County (Oakes). Notcommon. (Nat. from Eu.) 
Gerardia purpurea, L., var. paupercula (Gray’s Fl. N. A.). 
Common in wet pastures. Rarely over eight inches high. A variety 
with white flowers was collected in Salem by Miss S. Russell. 
‘*G. purpurea of eastern Massachusetts is probably distinct from that 
bearing the same name in our Middle States; observed around 
Philadelphia two feet high with flowers twice as large” (Dr. Chas. 
Pickering in a letter of July 15, 1875). The typical form does not 
seem to have been observed here thus far by collectors. 
Gerardia maritima, Jaf. 
Salem, Salisbury, West Gloucester, etc. Salt marshes. Not rare. 
Gerardia tenuifolia, Vail. 
Dry hillsides. Frequent. 
Gerardia flava, L., partly. 
Lynn (Tracy), Rockport (Pool), Besaite, Andover, Amesbury, 
Newbury, etc. Frequent on wooded hillsides. 
