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This species bears a general resemblance to the preceding, but 
is a much stouter plant. The leaves sometimes are more than an 
inch long-, broader, with the teeth larger and more acute ; peduncles 
much longer; flowers about ^ inch across, brilliant blue, with 
darker veins ; the 2 pairs of sepals widely divergent. The capsule 
is larger and much more compressed than in the two preceding 
species; the lobes gradually attenuated into the sharp keel, with 
the notch between them forming a very obtuse angle ; the surface 
nearly glabrous, except at the top, and with a very evident network 
of raised lines. Plant green. 
It is probable that the name V. Persica ought to be adopted; 
but the plant so named is described by Poiret as having the pedun- 
cles shorter than the leaves, and the corolla-segments shorter than 
the calyx. 
Buxbaum's Speedwell. 
Section II.— VERONICASTRUM. Koch. 
Annual or perennial. Plow r ers in terminial racemes. Pedicels 
not reflexed in fruit, solitary in the axils of bracts, which towards 
the top of the stem become much smaller than and dissimilar to 
the lower leaves. Corolla 4-partite ; tube of the corolla shorter 
than wide. Seeds flat or plano-convex, scarcely excavated beneath 
in any of the British species except V. triphyllos. 
SPECIES V. -VERONICA TRIPHYLLOS. Linn. 
Flate DCCCCLXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXI. Figs. 2, 3, 4. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 161. 
Annual. Stem stiff, decumbent at the base, then ascending or 
erect, usually slightly branched ; branches ascending. Lowest 
leaves stalked, ovate, entire or toothed ; middle and upper ones 
sessile, palmately-partite, with 3 to 5 oblong or obovate entire 
segments. Bracts alternate, sessile, tripartite, or the uppermost 
ones entire, the lowest sometimes with the lateral lobes cleft. 
Plowers in a lax raceme. Peduncles longer than the bracts and 
calyx, curved upwards. Sepals oblong, obtuse, clothed and ciliated 
with gland-tipped hairs. Capsule orbicular, rather shorter than 
the calyx, obcordate, much compressed above, faintly veined, 
ciliated with gland-tipped hairs ; the lobes contiguous, separated 
by a deep acute-angled or right-angled sinus between them. Style 
projecting beyond the notch of the capsule. Seeds excavated on 
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