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5a Common Brooklime. 
Becabunga vulgaris. 
The root is long, flender, and creeping: i 
runs among the mud, and fends out clufters of 
fibres in many parts. 
The fhoots that firft rife from it are weak and 
flender: they often take root again as they lic 
upon the wet bottom. 
* The ftalks are round, thick, flefhy, of a pale 
green, and terr inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have no foot- 
ftalk: they are broad, fhort, and lightly dent- 
» ated at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, but very numerous, and 
of a beautiful blue: they ftand in long fpikes 
which grow from the bofoms of the leaves; the 
top of the ftalk being always terminated by a 
clufter of young leaves, not by a fpike of flowers. 
The feed-veffel is {mall and heart-fafhioned: 
the feed minute and brown, 
“Tt is frequent in fhallow waters, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anagallis aquatica folio fubro- 
tundo. He divides it into two fpecies, under 
the name of a greater and leffer; but thefe are 
only accidental varieties. Others call it Veronica 
aquatica. 
2. Long-leaved Brooklime. 
Becabunga longifolia. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, very thick and flefhy, up- 
tight, much branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are long, nar- 
row, and ferrated: they have no footftalks, and 
are of a pale green. | 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale purple : 
they are very numerous, and ftand in long {pikes 
both on the 'main-ftalk and the branches. 
The feed-veffel is heart-fafhioned, and the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is common in fhallow waters, and about the 
fides of ditches and rivers. It Howers from May 
to September. 
C, Bauhine calls it Avagallis aquatica minor folio 
oblongo. Ray, Veronica aquatica longifolia media. 
Parkinfon defcribes and figures it under the name 
of the Lefer water parfnip. 
3. Narrow-leaved Brooklime, 
Becabunga angufifolia, 
The root confifts of a few long, flender fibres; 
The ftalk is round, thick, flefhy, and ten 
inches high, very little branched, and of a pale 
green, i 9% 
The leaves ftand in pairs : they are long, nar- 
tow, and not at all ferrated, tharp-pointed, of a 
deep green, and without footftalks. 
The flowers are few in number, of a pale 
purple, often white : they ftand on long, fender 
footftalks, and quickly fade. 
‘The feed-veffel is heart-fafhioned, broad, and 
flat. 
It is not uncommon in watery 
woods. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls ic uagallis a 
folia feutellata. J, Bauhine, 
places about 
quatica angufti. 
Anagallis angustifolia, 
Thefe three fpecies have the fame virtues; but 
the firft or common brooklime is poffefied of them 
in fo much greater a degree, that it ought only 
to be ufed, 
It is an excellent antifcorbutick, 
ken in fpring, is one of the firft of 
ufually call fweeteners of the blood. 
given either alone or mixed with t 
water-crefs and of Seville orange. : 
An infufion of the whole plant is an excellent 
diuretick. , It alfo promotes the menfes 3 and ig 
good in the jaundice, and dropfies, 
A frefh and tender leaf of drooklime laid on a 
flight wound heals it without any other appli- 
cation. 
Itis an old practice to mix brooklime leaves and 
cobwebs for this purpofé; but the Zrookline does 
alone. 
A large quantity of this herb put into beer, © 
while brewing, gives it the virtues of an anti- 
{corbutick and fweetener of the blood in a very 
happy manner. : 
A pultice of it, boiled tender, is excellent in 
the piles, 
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HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular, 
tinguifhed by five folds at the rim: the feedveffel is a fingle capfule,° 
the cup is divided into five fegments, 
Linneus places this among the pentandria monog ynia 
marked witha line on each fide: 
ftyle rifing from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
2 
divided into five fegments, and dif. 
of an oval figure, 
and remains with the fruit. . 
3 the threads in each flower being five, and the 
1. Broad- 
