)TTONIA PALUSTRIS. WATER HoTTONIA, 



or Water Violet, 



HOTTONIA Lin. Gen. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 18. HerbjE fructu sicco singulari, flore monopetalo, 



HOTTONL\ pah.i/lris, peduncuiis verticillato-multifloris. Lin. Syfi. Fegetab. 164. 



HOTTONIA florum verticiilis fpicatis. Haller. h'fi. n. 632. 



MILLEFOLIUM aquaticum feu Viola aquatica, caule nudo. Bauhin. pin. 141. Parkin/on , 1256. 



VIOLA paluftris. Gerard, emac. 826. Rail Syn. p. 285. Hudfon. PL Angl. p. 72. Scopoli FL Carniol. n. 213. 

 PL Dan. icon. 487. 



RADIX e plurimis fibrillis capillaceis albis conftat, qua % ROOT confifteof numerous white capillary fibres, which 



in limum profunde dimittuntur. | penetrate deep into the mud. 



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 CAULIS five Scapus floriferus, pedalis, fimplex, ere&us, | STALK or flowering Scapus, a foot high, fimple, up- 



multiflorus, verfus apicem glandulis fcabriufcu- | right, fuftainihg many flowers, towards the 



lus, ad bafm foliis plurimis inftrudtus, unde per % top roughifh with little glands, furnifhed at 



aquam longe excurrunt caules plures qui fibrillas I bottom with numerous leaves, from whence 



dimittunt. $ feveral ftalks proceed and run out to a con- 



I fiderable length through the water throwing 



I out numerous white fibres. 



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 FOLIA plurima, plerumque immerfa, pinnata, in api- | LEAVES numerous, generally under the water, pin- 



cibus caulium juniorum denfa, reflexa, Pinnis | nated, growing in tufts on the tops of the 



linearibus planis. ¥ young ftalks, bending downwards, the Pinnae 



I linear and flat. 



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 FLORES pallide purpurei, verticillati, fpicati, Pedunculi % FLOWERS of a pale purple colour, growing in whirls, 



ad. 10, Bradhea, ad bafin inftrucli, poft floref- f and forming a fpike. Peduncles to 10 in num- 



centiam reflexi. •% ber, furnifhed at bottom with a Bradhea, when 



I the flowers are gone off turning downwards. 



t 

 CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, quinquepar- ? CALYX : a Peri anthium of one leaf, divided into five 



titum: l acini is linearibus, ereclo-patulis,^. 1. I segments, which are linear, upright and fome- 



y what fpreading, Jig. 1. 



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COROLLA : monopetala, hypocrateriformis, tubus | COROLLA : monopetalous and falver-fhaped, the tube 



longitudine calycis, limbus quinquefidus, t * ne length of the calyx; the limb divided 



planus: laciniis ovato-oblongis, emarginatis, J into five fegments and flat; the segments of 



fig. 2. I an oval oblong fhape with a notch at the ex-? 



I tremity, Jig. 2. 

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STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, fubulata, brevia, I STAMINA: five Filaments tapering, mort, and up* 

 ereda. Anther je oblongae, flavae./^. 3. f right, Antherje oblong and yellow,^-. 3. 



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 PISTILLUM: Germen fubglobofum. Stylus filifor- t PISTILLUM: Germen roundim, Style thread-fhaped 

 mis, brevis. Stigma globofum, fig. 4. | and Ihort, Stigma fpherical,/^. 4. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula globofa, unilocularis, fob- | SEED-VESSEL : a round Capsule of one cavity, 

 pellucida, Jig. 5. | Aightly transparent, fg. 5. 



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 SEMINA plurima, ovata, pallide fufca, fig. 7. recep- | SEEDS numerous, oval, of a pale brown qolour, fig. 7: 

 taculo giobofo intra capfulam aflixa, fig. 6. I affixed to a round receptacle within the capfule, 



* fig* 6. 



This Angular plant abounds In moft of our watry Ditches, particularly in fuch as divide the Meadows, and flowers 

 in May and June, continuing for a confiderable time in blofTom ; among a variety of other places it may be found in 

 a ditch on the right hand fide of the Field Way leading from Kent-ft reet Road to Peckham. 



We do not find any author that mentions its pofMing any properties to recommend it but its beauty and Angularity, 

 both of which it pofieiles in a degree fufRcient to command our admiration. 



The leaves generally grow beneath the furface of the water and afford a Nidus if not Nourifhment to the frefh- water 

 Periwinkle and fome other fmall mell fiih. 



Antient Botanifts have given it the names of Millefolium aquaticum, and Viola aquatica \ the great numberof its 

 leaves induced them, with fome propriety, to call it Millefolium, but why they mould call it a Viola feems difficult 

 to determine, as the bloffom has nothing in its ftruct.ure fimilar to the flowers of that Genus, Boerhave afterwards 

 called it Hottonia, in honour of Dr. Hotton, which name Linnaeus has continued. 



