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PISTILLUM: Germen compreffum;' Srvrus fili- 
J PFRICARPIUM: CarsuLA magna, obcordata. 
VERONICA TRIPHYLLOS. ‘TRIFID SPEEDWELL. 
VERONICA. Linn. Gen. PL. DiaNDRIA MoNOGYN1A. 
Cor. Limbo 4-partito, lacinia infima angufliore. Caf. bilocularis. 
Rai Syn. Gen. 18. HU XA FRUCTU SICCO SINGULARI FLORE MONOPETALO. 
VERONICA zriphyllos oribus folitariis, folis digitato partitis, pedunculis calyce longioribus. Lizn, 
Syfl. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 60. Scop. FI. Carn. ed. 2. n. 25. Hudf. Fl. Angl. 
ed. 2. p. 7. triphylla, Flor. Suec. ed. 2. 5. 7. 
VERONICA foliis ovatis, tripartitis, et quinquepartitis, floribus longe petiolatis.. Hal/, Hf. 551- 
VERONICA. flofculis fingularibus, foliis laciniatis, erecta, Rai Syz. ed. 3. 5. 280. Upright Speedwell 
with divided leaves. 
ALSINE triphyllos caerulea. Baub. Pin. 250. 
ALSINE parva re&a, folio Alfines hederacee Rute modo divifo. Lod. icon. 464, 
ALSINE re&a. Right Chickweede. Ger. Herd. p. 489. emac. p. 612. f. 5. 
ALSINE reéta triphyllos, five laciniata. Park. Th. p. 760. Upright Chickweede with jagged leaves. 
ALSINE reels Hore ceruleo. Upright blew Chickweede. Park. Th. 5. 1260. f 6. 
ALSINE folio profunde fe&o, flore purpureo feu violaceo. I. B. 3. 367. 
VERONICA folio Rute. Rivin. 7. 96. 

ROOT annual, fibrous. 
STALKS numerous, about a hand's breadth high, nearly 
upright, round, on the upper part vifcid, o£ 
a pale green or reddifh colour, drooping a 
little during the flowering period. 
LEAVES fpreading, rather remote, alternate and 
oppofite, thickifh, hairy on both fides, often 
reddifh on the under fide, the lowermoft 
heart-fhaped ovate, ftanding on very {hort 
footftalks, the upper ones feffile, fingered, or 
divided deeply into five and three parts, the 
fegments wedge-fhaped, the middle one very 
large. 
FLOWERS placed fingly in the bofoms of the leaves, 
of adeep and bright blue colour; F/ower- 
fralks fhorter than the leaves: 
CALYX: a Pzn1ANTHIUM of one leaf, continuing, 
deeply divided into four fegments, which are 
obovate, and like the uppermoft leaves of 
the plant, fig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetalous, wheel-fhaped, fmaller than 
the calyx; Zude very fhort and white; Limé 
deeply divided into four fegments, flat, feg- 
ments ovate, lowermoft one narrower, upper- 
moft one broader than the reft, jig. 2. 
TAMINA: two FiLAMzNTS, narroweft below, white; 
ANTHER.E oblong, blue, fs. 9. 
ISTILLUM : Germen flattened; Srvrz filiform, 
the length of the ftamina; Stiema fimple, 
- whitifh, fg. 4. 
EED-VESSEL: a large CapsuLe, inverfely heart- 
Íhaped. 
EEDS numerous, of a blackifh brown colour, con- 
vex, gibbous, and wrinkled on one fide, 
hollow on the other. 
RADIX annua, fibrofa. 
CAULES plures, fubpalmares, erectiufculi, teretes, 
fuperne vifeidi, palhde virides, aut fubru- 
bentes, pendente florefcentia fubnutantes. 
FOLIA patentia, remotiufcula, alterna et oppofita, 
craffiufcula, utrinque pilofa, fubtus ízpe ru- 
bentia, inferiora cordato-ovata, breviffime: 
petiolata, fuperiora feffilia, digitato-quinque- 
partita, et tripartità, lacinuis cuneiformibus, 
intermedia maxima, 
FLORES axillares, folitarii, faturate et fplendide ce- 
rulei; Pedunculi foliis breviores. 
CALYX; Pertanruium monophyllum, perfiflens, 
quadripartitum, laciniis obovatis, folis fu- 
premis plantee fimilibus, fg. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata, calyce minor; Tudus 
breviflimus, albus; Lméus quadripartitus, 
planus, laciniis ovatis, infima anguftiore, huic 
-oppofita latiore, fg. 2. 
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STAMINA: Fitamenta duo, inferne anguftiora, 
alba; AnTHER& oblongz, ccerulex, jig. 
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formis, longitudine ftaminum ; 5T1GMA fim- 
plex, albidum, fg. 4. 
A uu 
SEMINA. plurima, e fufco nigricantia, hinc convexa, 
gibba, rugofa, illinc concava. | 
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The Veronica triphyllos, a plant common to moft parts of Europe, and chiefly found in corn-fields, where the 
foil is light, is of very partial growth in this country, and found principally in the counties of Norfolk * and ^ 
Suffolk ; we have received fpecimens of it from Sir Tuomas FnANKLAND, gathered by him in Yorkfhire. 
It flowers very early in the fpring, in March, and April, and ripens its feeds in June, from thefe fpon- 
taneoufly fcattered, young plants come up readily in autumn; in favourable foils this fpecies, like the bederifolia 
and agreflis, feems much difpofed to become a weed; but, like them, is too trifling to be injurious. 
C. BAUHINE mentions two varieties of this Veronica, one with larger and thicker leaves, the other with 
fmaller ones; thefe fcarcely deferve the name of varieties: Hatter obferves, that fix inches is the utmoft 
height of the plant, we have feen it much taller; the fummits of the flowering branches for the moft part bend 
fomewhat downwards, a peculiarity of the plant which we have not found noticed by authors. 
This fpecies is too diftin& to be miftaken for any other Englifh one, its divided leaves, the deep rich blue 
colour of its flowers, and the largenefs of its feed-veffels obvioutly diftinguifh it. 
Triphyllos, a name given to it by fome of the old Botanifis, is not always applicable, the leaves in young 
plants particularly, being often divided into more than three fegments. 
* At Rowton in Norfolk, betwixt the town and the highway, twelve miles before you come to Norwich ; at Mewel in Suffolk, between the 
two windmills and the warren-lodge ; in the gravel-pits, two miles beyond Barton Mills, on the ridge of the hill where a {mall cart-way croffeth 
the road to Lynn; and in the grafs thereabouts, plentifully. Tu. WirrisEL. Ray’s Syn. ed. 3. p. 280. | 
