V ERONICA 
Brooklime. 
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BE C AB U N G A. 
VERONICA Limuei Gen. PI. Diandria Monogynia. 
Cor. limbo 5-partito, lacinia iniima anguftiore. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 18. Herba: fructu sicco singulari, flore monopetalo. 
VERONICA Hecabunga racemis lateralibus, foliis ovatis planis, caule repente. Linn. Syji. Veget ab. p. 57. 
VERONICA foliis ovatis, ferratis, glabris, ex alis racemofa. Haller hi/l. n. 534. 
VERONICA Becabunga. Scopoli FI. Carniol. n. 11. 
ANAGALLIS aquatica minor folio fubrotundo. Bauhin pin. 252. 
ANAGALLIS aquatica vulgaris, five Becabunga. Parkinfon 1236. 
ANAGALLIS five Becabunga. Gerard emac. 620. 
VERONICA aquatica rotundifolia, Becabunga dida minor. Raii Syn. 280, Common Brooklime. 
Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 4. Oeder FI. Dan. Icon. 51 1. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa, fibris plurimis, capillaribus, 
albis. 
CAULES numerofi, repentes, teretes, Iasves, crafli, 
fucculenti, rubentes, ramofi. 
FOLIA ovato-obtufa,utrinque glabra, fubcarnofa,‘oppo- 
fita, dentata, denticulis glandula terminatis. 
FLORES pulchre coerulei, ocello albo, racematim dif- 
pofiti, racemis ex utraque ala prodeuntibus. 
CALYX : Perianthium quadripartitum, laciniis ovato- 
acutis, 1 zevibus, corolla brevioribus, jig. 2. 
COROLLA monopetala, fubrotata, coerulea, venis fa- 
turatioribus ad bafin ftriatis, laciniis fubova- 
tis, infima anguftiore, Jig. 3. 
STAMINA : Filamenta duo, alba, medio crafliora : 
Anthera coerulefcentes : Pollen album 
fig‘ 4- 
PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum, didymum : 
Stylus apice incraflatus, purpureus : Stigma 
capitatum, jig. 3. 
P ERICA RP IUM : Capsula fubrotunda, comprefla, 
bilocularis, quadrivalvis, jig. 6. 
SEMINA plurima, ovata, fufca, jig. 7, 8. 
; ROOT perennial, fibrous, the fibres numerous, very 
fmall and white. 
STALKS numerous, creeping, round, fhaooth, thick, 
fucculent, of a reddifh colour, and branched. 
LEAVES oval and obtufe, fmooth on both fides, fome- 
what flefhy, oppolite, indented at the edges, 
each little tooth terminated by a gland. 
FLOWERS of a beautiful blue colour, with a white 
eye, growing in racemi or branches which 
proceed from the bofoms of the leaves on each 
fide of the ftalk. 
CALYX : a Perianthium divided into four fegments, 
which are of an oval pointed fhape, fmooth, 
and fhorter than the corolla, jig. 2. 
COROLLA monopetalous, fomewhat weel-fhaped, of 
a blue colour, ftriped at bottom with deeper 
veins of the fame colour; the fegments nearly 
oval ; the lowermoft narrower than the others, 
fg- 3 ‘ 
STAMINA : two white Filaments, thickeft in the 
middle: Antherje blueifh : the Pollen 
white, jig. 4. 
PISTILLUM : Germen roundifh, double : Style 
thickeft at top and purple : Stigma forming: 
a little head, jig. 5. ° 
SEED-VESEL : a roundifh, flattened Capsule of 
two cavities and four valves, jig. 6. 
SEEDS feveral, oval and brown, jig. 7, 8. 
BROOKLIME grows very commonly in brooks and muddy waters wbenc j a 
and July It « an officinal plant, and made ufe of in the /ortatk uicls of the T " J 
feems to be the only purpofe to which it is applied. juices of the London Difpenfatory, which 
