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' Pl ANTAG rNELLA. Its flowcr is monopetalous^ regu- 
lar and hermaphrodite : The back-part of it is a 
tube, and the fore- part expanded into five equal 
entire fegments. It has five chives. The ovary 
is oval, and when ripe, opens at the top. We 
■ ' have but one fpecies of this plant', v^z. 
Plant aginella palufiriss R. 278,. G. 190. Plan- 
tago aquatica minima Clufii^ P. 1244; By the way- 
fid es, in places where water has flood all winter. 
At Milton^ in a cart-mt, as foon as you are out of 
the town, in the way to El)\ Mr Martin, 
2. ^uch as have thdr flowers deeply cut into four 
flgmntSy fo thatj they appear to be four petals, 
Veronica, Speedwell, or Fluellin. The leaves 
generally grow by pairs : The empalement is 
nophyllous, and cut into four fegments, expandr 
ing like a flar : The flower is monopetalous, 
wheei-fliaped, and divided into four fegments, ha- 
ving five chives : The fruit is made up of two 
pouches, in the figure of a heart, which open on 
each fide the mid-w'all, and lliedfeverai fmall feeds. 
• Speedwell is divided into three forts ; ijly Such 
as have their flowers difpofed in fpikes on the tops of 
their ftallcs and brandies •, idy Such as have them 
growing fingly from the bofoms of die leaves •, and 
^dy Such as have their flowers produced in a thyrfe, 
from -the wings of the leaves. 
ifl, Such, as have their flowers difpofed in fpikes on 
, the tops of the ftalks and 'branches. 
1. Veronica fpicaia Cambro-Britannicay RuguU 
fuhhirfuto folio y R. 278. Spiked .FlueUin of Wales ^ 
with leaves a little hair) ,' rcfembling thole of Bugle. 
2. Veronica fpicata reEla minor y R. 279. fpicata 
minory C. 247. erebla angufttfoliay P. 550. rdla 
minimay G. 503, ^5? E.627. ajfurgens feu fpicata^ 
Ej. Em. 628. Upright fpiked Male Speedwell, or 
^ • ^2 Fluellin. 
