ERONICA BECABUNGA. DROORLIME. 



VERONICA L'mntei Gen. PL Diandria Monogynia^ 



Cor. limbo 5-partito, lacinia inflma angufKore. 

 Raii Syn. Gen. 18. Herb^e fructu sicco singulari, flore monopetalo. 

 VERONICA Becabunga racemis lateralibus, foliis ovatis planis, caule repente. Linn. Syfl. Vegetab. p. 57. 



VERONICA foliis ovatis, ferratis, glabris, ex alis racemofa, Haller hifl. n. 534. 

 VERONICA Becabunga. Scopoli Fl. Carniol n. 11. 

 ANAGALLIS aquatica minor folio fubrotundo. Bauhin pin. 252. 

 ANAGALLIS aquatica vulgaris, five Becabunga. Parkin/on 1236. 

 ANAGALLIS five Becabunga. Gerard emac. 620. 



VERONICA aquatica rotundifolia, Becabunga di&a minor. Rail Syn. 280, Common Brooklime. 

 Hud/on FI. AngL p. 4. Oeder Fl. Dan. Icon. 511. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa, fibris plurimis, capillaribus, t ROOT perennial, fibrous, the fibres numerous, very 



albis. I fmall and white. 



CAULES numerofi, repentes, teretes, lseves, craffi, | STALKS numerous, creeping, round, fmooth, thick, 



fucculenti, rubentes, ramofi. J fucculent, of a reddifh colour, and branched. 



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FOLIA ovato-obtufa,utrinque glabra, fubcarnofa, oppo- I LEAVES oval and obtufe, fmooth on both fides, fome- 



fita, dentata, denticulis glandula terminatis. $ what flefhy, oppofite, indented at the edges, 



| each little tooth terminated by a gland. 



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FLORES pulchre ccerulei, ocello albo, racematim dif- t FLOWERS of a beautiful blue colour, with a white 



pofiti, racemis ex utraque ala prodeuntibus. I eye, growing in racemi or branches which 



% proceed from the bofoms of the leaves on each 



f fide of the ftalk. 



CALYX : PERiANTHiuMquadripartitum, laciniis ovato- ¥ CALYX : a Perianthium dividedinto four fegments, 



acutis, lasvibus, corolla brevioribus, fig. 2. I which are of an oval pointed fhape, fmooth, 



% and fhorter than the corolla, fig. 2. 

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COROLLA monopetala, fubrotata, coerulea, venis fa- | COROLLA monopetalous, fomewhat weel-fhaped, of 



tnratioribus ad bafin ltriatis, laciniis fubova- % a blue colour, ftriped at bottom with deeper 



tis, infima anguftiore, fig. 3. | veins of the fame colour ; the fegments nearly 



% oval ; the lowermoft narrower than the others, 



I fig- 3' 



STAMINA: Filamenta duo, alba, medio craffiora : ? STAMINA: two white Filaments, thickefl in the 



Antherje ccerulefcentes : Pollen album, | middle: Anthers blueifh : the Pollen 



fig. 4. ? white, fig. 4. 



PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum, didymum : | PISTILLUM : Germen roundifh, double : Style 



Stylus apice incraflatus, purpureus : Stigma I thickefl at top and purple : Stigma forming 



capitatum, fig. 5. | a llttle head > fig- 5- 



PERICARPIUM: Capsula fubrotunda, compreffa, | SEED-VESEL : a roundifh, flattened Capsule of 



bilocularis, quadrivalvis, fig. 6. | two cavities and four valves, fig. 6. 



SEMINA plurima, ovata, fufca, fig. 7, 8. | SEEDS feveral, oval and brown, fig. 7, 8. 



BROOKLIME grows very commonly in brooks and muddy waters, whence its name, and flowers in June 

 and July. It is an officinal plant, and made ufe of in the fcorbutic juices of the London Difpenfatory, which 

 feems to be the only purpofe to which it is applied. 



