Veronica Anagallis, Water Speedwell. 



VERONICA Lin. Gen. PL Diandria Monogynia. 



Cor. Limbo 4-partito, lacinia infima anguftiore. Capfula bilocularis* 



Rail Syn. Gen. 18. Herb.e fructu sicco singulari fl-ore monopetalo. 



VERONICA Anagallis racemis lateralibus, foliis lanceolatis ferratis, caule erecto» Lin. Syfl» 

 Vegetab. p. 5 6. Sp. PL p. 16. FL Suec. n. 13. 



VERONICA foliis lanceolatis ferratis, glabris, ex alis racemofa. Bailer hifl. n. 553. 



VERONICA Anagallis Scopoli FL Cam. n. 12. 



ANAGALLIS aquatica minor folio oblongo. Bauh. Pin. 252. 



ANAGALLIS aquatica folio oblongo crenato. Park. 1237. 



ANAGALLIS aquatica major. Ger. emac. 620. 



VERONICA aquatica longifolia media. Rail Syn. 280. The Middle Long-leav'd Water Speedwell 

 or Brooklime. Hud/on, FL AngL cd. 2. p. 5. Lightfoot FL Scot. p. 73. 



RADIX annua, fibrofa, $ ROOT annual, and fibrous. 



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CAULIS ere&us, pedahs ad bipedalem, teres, fuban- h STALK upright, from one to two feet high, round, 



gulofus, glaber, ad bafin ufque ramofus, in- | (lightly angular, fmooth, branched quite to 



feme purpurafcens. $ the bottom, below purplifh. 



FOLIA oppofita, fefhlia, Ianceolata, faepe ovato- p LEAVES oppofite, feffile, lanceolate, often ovato- 

 lanceolata, ferrata, glabra, venofa, pallide | lanceolate, ferrated, fmooth, veiny, of a pale 



viridia. $ green colour. 



FLORES racemofi, numerofi, triginta quadraginta aut § FLOWERS growing in racemi, numerous, from thirty 

 etiam plures in fingulo racemo. | to forty, or even more on one racemus. 



RACEMI laterales, oppofiti, longiffimi, fuberecti. | RACEMI lateral, oppofite, very long, nearly upright. 



PEDUNCULI ad Ientem fubvifcidi. | FLOWER-STALKS fomewhat vifcid when magnified. 



BRACTEyE lanceolate. I FLORAL-LEAVES lanceolate. 



CALYX: Perianthium quadripartitum, perftftens, I CALYX : a Perianthium deeply divided into four 

 laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, laevibus, tri- x fegments, and permanent, the fegments ovato- 



nervibus, fubsequalibus, jig. 1. <► lanceolate, pointed, fmooth, three-ribb'd, and 



i . nearly equal, jig. 1. 



COROLLA monopetala, rotata, pallide purpurea, | COROLLA monopetalous, and wheel-fhaped, of a 



lacinia fuperiore et duabus lateralibus venis § pale purple colour, the uppermoft fegment 



\faturatioribus itriata, jig. 2. | and the two lateral ones ftreaked with deeper 



$ veins of the fame colour, fig. 2. 



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STAMINA: Filamenta duo, purpurafcentia, medio $ STAMINA: two Filaments of a purplifh colour, 

 craffiora ; Anther/e concolores ; Pollen v thickeft in the middle; Anther/e of the 



album, jig. 3. | fame colour; Pollen white, jig. 3. 



PISTILLUM : Germen viride ; Stylus declinatus, | PISTILLUM : Germen green; Style depending, 

 purpurafcens, fuperne craflior ; Stigma ob- <> purplifh, thickened above; Stigma blunt, 



tufum, jig. 4. I * jig. 4. 



PERICARPIUM: Capsula bilocularis, fubinde tri- $ SEED-VESSEL : a Capsule of two cavities, fome- 

 locularis, fubrotunda, vix emarginata, poly- § . times three, roundifh, fcarcely emarginate, 



fperma, jig. 5. j containing many feeds, jig. 5. 



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SEMINA plurima, fubrotunda, minutiifuna, jig. 6. § SEEDS numerous, roundifh, and very minute, jg. 6. 



The Veronica Anagallis is a much more general plant than the Scutellata, being found in almoft every watery 

 ditch, but efpecially in thofe which communicate with the Thames, on the edges of which it is alfo extremely 

 common. 



It is apt to vary confiderably according tofituation: when it grows in ditches that have a confiderahle depth 

 of water, it becomes much taller, the ftalk is proportionably thicker, and the leaves are apt to be curled ; 

 when it grows out of the water, the plant is fmaller, the leaves are broader, flatter, and of a paler hue ; in all 

 fuuations its racemi are remarkably long and full of flowers, and its feeds are uncommonly fmall and 

 numerous. 



It bloffoms from June to September. 



The feed-veffels are fometimes found very much enlarged ; on cutting them open a fmall larva was found 

 in fome. and a pupa in others, which, on being kept a proper time, produced a fmall Curculio or Weevil. 



