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16. Fingered Veronica. Veronica triphyllos, Linn. 



(Fig. 758.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 26.) 



Stem spreading, or almost trailing, as 

 in the procumbent V. and the Ivy V. ; 

 but the leaves are deeply cut into three, 

 five or seven digitate lobes, and the cap- 

 sule and seeds are more like those of the 

 tvall V. Flower-stalks rather longer than 

 the floral leaves, which are much smaller 

 and less divided than the stem-leaves. 

 Corolla small, of a deep blue. Capsule 

 broad, with several thin but concave 

 seeds. 



In cultivated and waste places, widely 

 spread over central and southern Eu- 

 rope and western Asia, extending north- 

 ward into southern Sweden. Hare in 

 Britain, having been only found in a few 

 Norfolk, and Yorkshire. Fl. spring and su 



Fig. 758. 

 localities in Suffolk, 



X. BARTSXA. BARTSIA. 



Herbs, usually half-parasitical on the roots of other plants, with 

 erect stems, opposite leaves, and yellow or purple flowers in terminal 

 spikes. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 4-cleft. Corolla with a dis- 

 tinct tube ; the limb 2-lipped ; the upper lip erect, concave, entire or 

 notched, but without spreading lobes. Stamens 4, in pairs ; the cells 

 of the anthers pointed at the base. Capsule opening in 2 valves in the 

 middle of the cells. Seeds many, more or less striated or furrowed. 



Hather a large genus, chiefly European, north African, and west 

 Asiatic, but also with a considerable number of South American species. 

 It has been divided into three or four distinct genera, distinguished 

 chiefly by the seeds ; but although I had myself on another occasion 

 adopted three of them, it appears to me now to be a more natural and 

 convenient course to consider them as sections of one genus, distin- 

 guished from Eyebright by the form of the corolla. 

 Spikes panicled. Flowers pink. Seeds few, pendulous ... 3. Med _B. 

 Spikes simple or nearly so. Seeds numerous. 



Spikes short. Flowers dull-purple. Calyx campanulate. Seeds 



deeply furrowed 1. Alpine B. 



Spikes long. Flowers yellow. Calyx tubular. Seeds scarcely 



striated 2. Viscid JB. 



