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 ahout 
Thetford, Mildenhall, Cavenham, and Bury St. Edmund's ; in the 
sandy part of the Ainsty, and also in the neighhourhood 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 \ 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 \ inch across, dark-blue, rather shorter 
than the calyx. Sepals slightly unequal. Capsule \ inch long, 
rather swollen at the base, much compressed upwards. 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. 
Tiifid Speedwell. 
French, Veronique & trois Lobes. German, Dreiblcittriger Ehrenpreis. 
SPECIES VI— VERONICA VEENA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCLXXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXX. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. Odd. 
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 
\\ ide obtuse-angled notch. Style short, not exceeding the notch of 
the capsule. Seeds nearly Hat on the inner face. Plant pubescent, 
the hairs gland-tipped at least on the upper part. 
