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Equifetum pal u Arc brevioribus foliis polyfpermon. 
C. B. pin. 15. Female Horfetail . 
In ftagnant and flow-running waters and in 
marfhv places. This elegant plant is not com- 
mon in thefe parts. It is found in the river Soar, 
near Loughborough; alfo in a little brook near 
the feat of the Rev. Granville Wheler, Elquire, at 
Weft Leke Nottinghamshire. 
This plant was foon discovered by the botanifts, 
after the revival of learning, but they were at a 
great lols whither to refer it. Many of them took 
it for the Polygonum or Sanguinaria faemina of 
Diofcorides : at length it fell among the Equi- 
feta or Horfetails ; till Ruppius, Dillenius, and 
Vaillant, finding its parts of frucliflcation very 
different from the Horfetails, called it by a diffe- 
rent name, the former adopting the word Pina- 
ftella, and two the latter the old name Limno- 
peuce. 
The flower of this plant is perhaps the mod 
Ample in all nature. It has neither Calyx nor 
Petal, but confifts only of one Stamen and one 
Piftil, followed by a Angle feed. 
DIAND R I A 
monogynia. 
Veronica Linn. Gen. Plant. N°. 25. 
Veronica fpicis latcralibus pedunculatis, foliis oppo- 
fitis, caule procumbente Mat. Med. 11. Sp. 
Plant. 1 1. 
Veronica mas fupina et vulgatifiima C. B. 24.6. 
Raii Syn. 281. 
Male 
