Veronica Triphyllos. Trifid Speedwell. 
VERONICA. Linn. Gen. PI. Diandria Monogynia. 
Cor. Limbo 4-partito, lacinia infima anguftiore. Cap/, bilocularis. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 18. Herbie fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 
VERONICA triphyllos floribus folitariis, foliis digitato partitis, pedunculis calyce longioribus. Linn. 
Syfi. Vegetat 'k ed. 14. Murr. p. 60. Scop. FI. Cam. ed. 2. n. 25. liudfi. FI. Angi, 
ed. 2. p. 7. triphylla. Flor. Suec. ed. 2. p. 7. 
VERONICA foliis ovatis, tripartitis, et quinquepartitis, floribus longe petiolatis. Hall.HiJl. 551. 
VERONICA flofculis Angularibus, foliis laciniatis-, eretta. Raii Syn. ed. 3. p. 280. Upright Speedwell 
with divided leaves. 
ALSINE triphyllos czerulea. Bauh. Pin. 250.. 
ALSINE parva refta, folio Alfines hederaceze Rutze modo divifo. Lob. icon. 464. 
ALSINE re&a. Right Chickweede. Ger. Herb. p. 489. emac. p. 612. f 5. 
ALSINE recta triphyllos, five laciniata. Park Th. p. 760. Upright Chickweede with jagged leaves. 
ALSINE re6ia flore caeruleo. Upright blew Chickweede. Park. Th. p. 1260. f 6. 
ALSINE folio profunde fe£lo, flore purpureo feu violaceo. I. B. 3. 367. 
VERONICA folio Rutae. Rivin. t. 9 6. 
RADIX annua, fibrofa. 
CAULES pi ures, fubpalmares, ere&iufculi, teretes, 
fu perne vifcidi, pallide virides, aut fubru- 
bentes, pendente florefcentia fubnutantes. 
FOLIA patentia, remotiufcula, alterna et oppofita, 
crafliufcula, utrinque pilofa, fubtus fzepe ru- 
bentia, inferiora cordato-ovata, breviflime 
petiolata, fuperiora feffilia, digitato-quinque- 
partita, et tripartita, laciniis cuneiformibus, 
intermedia maxima. 
FLORES axillares, folitarii, faturate et fplendide cce- 0 
rulei ; Pedunculi foliis breviores. 9 
CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, perfi flens, | 
quadripartitum, laciniis obovatis, foliis fu- 
premis plantze limilibus, fig. 1 . 0 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata, calyce minor; Tubus | 
breviffimus, albus ; Limbus quadripartitus, 9 
planus, laciniis ovatis, infima anguftiore, huic ^ 
oppofita latiore, fig. 2. | 
STAMINA : Filamenta duo, inferne anguftiora, (f 
alba; Anthers oblongs, cceruleze, fig. 3. 9 
PISTILLUM: Germen comprelfum; Stylus fili- | 
formis, longitudine flaminum; Stigma fim- V 
plex, albidum, fig. 4. (f 
PFRICARPIUM : Capsula magna, obcordata. q 
SEMINA plurima, e fufco nigricantia, hinc convexa, | 
gibba, rugofa, illinc concava. 9 
ROOT annual, fibrous. 
STALKS numerous, about a hand’s breadth high, nearly 
upright, round, on the upper part vifcid, of 
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, {landing on very fhort 
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 a deep and bright blue colour ; Flowcr- 
fialks fhorter than the leaves. 
CALYX: a Perianthium 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 thai^ 
the calyx ; Tube very fhort and white ; Limb 
deeply divided into four fegments, flat, feg- 
ments ovate, lowermoft one narrower, upper- 
moft one broader than the reft, fig. 2. 
STAMINA: two Filaments, narroweft below, white; 
Anthera oblong, blue, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen flattened; Style filiform, 
the length of the ftamina; Stigma Ample, 
whitifh, fig. 4. 
SEED-VESSEL : a large Capsule, inverfely heart- 
fhaped. 
SEEDS numerous, of a blackifh brown colour, con- 
vex, gibbous, and wrinkled on one fide, 
hollow on the other. 
The Veronica triphyllos, a plant common to moll parts of Europe, and chiefly found m 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 Thomas Frankland, gathered by him m Yorkfhire. 
It flowers very early in the fpring, in March, and April, and ripens its feeds m June from thefofpon- 
taneouflv tattered young plants come up readily in autumn ; in favourable foils this Ipecies, like the hedenfiha 
and oJ/lis, 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 : Haller 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 moll part bend 
fomewbat downwards, a peculiarity of the plant which we have not found npticed by authors 
This fpecies is too diflina 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 obviouily diflinguilh it. 
■Triphyllos a name given to it by Tome of the old Botan.fls, 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 mile, before yon come to Norwich ; at Mewel in Suffolk between the 
two wiotom “nd .be warmn-lodge ; in' the gravel pit. two mile, beyon Barton M l., on the r.dge of the lull where a fm.ll cart-wa, crofleth 
the road to Lynn ; and in the grals thereabouts, plentifully. Th. Wti-ListL. Ro) s Syn. ed. 3. 280. 
