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In sandy fields on the confines of Norfolk and Suffolk ; about 
Mildenhall and Thetford, and Bury St. Edmund's ; Lowestoft, 
Suffolk (the Rev. W. W. Newbould). 
England. Annual. Spring. 
Stems in British specimens 1 to 3 inches high, and even on the 
Continent rarely exceeding G inches. Leaves divided somewhat in 
the same manner as in V. triphyllos, but longer in proportion to 
their breadth, with more bristly hairs and not turning black in 
drying. Flowers usually close together even in fruit. Corolla shorter 
than the calyx, pale-blue. Capsule broader than long, the outer 
margins projecting between the pairs of calyx-segments ; lobes often 
tinged with red. Plant yellowish-green, bristly-hairy, with the 
hairs incurved, many of those in the upper part of the stem gland- 
tipped. 
Vernal Speedwell. 
French, Veronique Printaniere. German, Friihliags Ehrenpreis. 
SPECIES VII.— V ERONICA AHVENSIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCLXXVI. 
Reich Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXX. Fig. 2. 
irdlut, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 598. 
Annual. Stem rather stiff, erect or ascending, generally 
branched ; branches curved upwards, then erect. Leaves ovate- 
oval, irregularly crenate-serrate, the lowest ones shortly stalked, 
the rest sessile. Bracts alternate, strapshaped-oblanceolate, or the 
lower ones lanceolate. Flowers in a spikelike raceme, at length 
lax. Pedicels erect, much shorter than the bracts and calyx. 
Sepals strapshaped or strapshaped-oblanceolate, obtuse, ciliated 
with hairs, some of which arc gland-tipped. Capsule much shorter 
than the calyx, inversely semicircular-deltoid, obcordate, ciliated 
with long hairs, some of which are gland-tipped ; lobes much 
compressed, slightly divaricate, separated by a rather wide right- 
angled notch. Style short, not exceeding the notch of the capsule. 
Seeds nearly flat on the inner face. Plant pubescent, with rather 
long jointed and frequently gland-tipped hairs, intermixed in the 
upper part with short incurved hairs. 
On dry sandy ground, fields, roadsides, wall-tops, &c. Very 
common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring 
to Autumn. 
