154 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



the under side. Plant more or less thickly clothed with short 

 gland-tipped hairs. 



In sandy fields, on the confines of Norfolk and Suffolk, as about 

 Thetford, Mildenhall, Cavenham, and Bury St. Edmund's ; in the 

 sandy part of the Ainsty, and also in the neighbourhood of 

 Doncaster, Yorkshire. 



England. Annual. Spring. 



Stems 2 inches to 1 foot high, simple in small examples, 

 sparingly branched throughout, with the branches spreading and 

 ascending. Leaves :J to -J inch long ; all except those at the very 

 base of the stem deeply divided into blunt lobes, of which the 

 middle one is the largest. Bracts smaller than the leaves and with 

 narrower divisions. Corolla J inch across, dark-blue, rather shorter 

 than the calyx. Sepals slightly unequal. Capsule -J inch long, 

 rather swollen at the base, much compressed vipwards. Seeds 

 numerous, smaller than those of the preceding species, but ex- 

 cavated on the under side in the same way, in which it differs from 

 all the following species. 



The leaves of V. triphyllos turn black in drying. 



Trifid Speedwell. 



FrencL, Veronique a trois Lobes. German, Dreihllittriger Fhrenpreis. 



SPECIES VL— VERONICA VERNA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCLXXY. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXX. Fig. 1. 

 Mlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 599. 



Annual. Stem stiff, erect, simple or slightly branched ; branches 

 curved upwards, then erect. Lowest leaves shortly stalked, oval, 

 entire ; intermediate stem-leaves indistinctly stalked, deeply lyrate- 

 pinnatifid, with 2 or 3 pairs of strapshaped entire segments, and a 

 larger terminal one, which is sometimes crenate-serrate. Bracts 

 alternate, sessile, strapshaped-oblanceolate or elliptical, more rarely 

 the lower ones tripartite. Elowers in a rather dense spikelike 

 raceme. Peduncles erect, shorter than the bracts and calyx. 

 Sepals strapshaped or strapshaped-oblanceolate, subacute, ciliated 

 with hairs, some of which are gland-tipped. Capsule rather shorter 

 than the calyx, inversely reniform- deltoid, ciliated with gland- 

 tipped hairs ; lobes much compressed, divaricate, separated by a 

 wide obtuse-angled notch. Style short, not exceeding the notch of 

 the capsule. Seeds nearly flat on the inner face. Plant pubescent, 

 the hairs gland-tipped at least on the upper part. 



