26 DIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Veronica. 



V, triphyllos. Linn. Sp. PL 19. fVilld. v. 1. 74. Vahl Enutn. 



t>. 1 . 83. Fl. Br. 25. Engl. Bot. v.\.t. 26. Fl. Grcec. v.\.8. 



t. 10. Curt. Lond. fasc. 6. L 2. P/. Dan. t. 627. ScArad. 



Germ. v. 1. 44. 

 V. n. 551. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 237. 

 V. folio rutse. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 96./. 3. 

 V. flosculis singularibus, foliis laeiniatis, erecta. Rati Syn. 280. 

 Alsine recta. Ger. Em. 612. 



In sandy fields, but very rarely. 



Chiefly on the sandy confines of Norfolk and Suffolk j first found 

 by Thomas Willisel, in Ray's time. Mr. Tofield is said to have 

 met with it near Rossington, Yorkshire. 



Annual. April. 



Root tapering. Stem 3 or 4 inches high, erect, with spreading 

 branches, chiefly from the lower part. Herbage finely downy or 

 hoary, a little viscid. Lower leaves opposite, undivided, or pal- 

 mate ; upper alternate, in 3 or 5 deep segments. Fl. of a deep 

 rich blue, in nearly equal segments. Cal. bluntish. Caps, in- 

 versely heart-shaped, compressed, hairy. Sttjle scarcely project- 

 ing beyond the lobes. Seeds numerous, obovale, flat, umbili- 

 cated at one side. 



18. V. verna. Vernal Speedwell. 



Flowers solitary. Leaves pinnatifid; uppermost lanceolate, 

 undivided. Flower-stalks shorter than the calyx. Stem 

 erecL 



V. verna. Linn. Sp. PI. 19. Syst. Veg. ed. U. 60. Willd.v.l. 

 75. Vahl Emm. v. 1. 83. Fl. Br. 26. Engl. Bot. v.\. t. 25. 

 Rose Elem. app. 444. t. 2./. I. Fl. Dan. t. 252. Poit. 8( 

 Turp. Par. 2\.i. 22. Schrad. Germ. t). 1 . 45 . Schreh. Lips. 1 1 . 



V. n. 552. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 237. 



V. Bellardi. Willd. v. 1. 76. AlUon. Pedem. v. 1. 77. t. 85./. 1. 



V. succulenta. Ibid. 78. t. 22. f. 4. 



V. raontana. Riv. Monop. Irr. f. 96./. 3. 



In fields of the most barren sand. 



About Thetford, Bury, &c. first found by Sir John Cullum, Bart. 



Annual. April. 



Most like V. arvensis in habit and colour, but much smaller. The 

 leaves are deeply divided, in a pinnatifid manner, with a central 

 or terminal lobe larger than the rest ; several of the floral ones 

 are three-cleft j most of the upper ones lanceolate and undivided. 

 In a starved state few or none of the leaves are divided, and it 

 becomes F. Bellardi. 



V. succulenta is the identical verna in its proper state. The stem 

 is simple or branched, from 1 to 4 inches high ; unequally 

 downy, as in F. arvensis. Fl, small, light blue, with darker 



