Veronica Anagallis. Water Speedwell, 
VERONICA Lin . Gen. PL Diandria MonogyniA. 
Cor. Limbo 4-partito, lacinia infima anguftiore. Capfula bilocularis. 
Ran Syn. Gen. 18. Herb.® fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 
VERONICA Anagallis racemis lateralibus, foliis lanceolatis ferratis, caule erefto. Lin Svfl 
Vegetab. p. 56. Sp. Pl.p. 16. FI. Suec. n. 13. 
VERONICA foliis lanceolatis ferratis, glabris, ex alis racemofa. Haller hijl. n. 553. 
VERONICA Anagallis Scopoli FI. 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. Raii Syn. 280. The Middle Long-leav’d Water Speedwell 
or Brookhme. Hud/on, FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 5. Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. 73. 
ROOT annual, and fibrous. 
STALK upright, from one to two feet high, round, 
flightly angular, fmooth, branched quite to 
the bottom, below purplifii. 
LEAVES oppofite, feflile, lanceolate, often ovato- 
lanceolate, ferrated, fmooth, veiny, of a pale 
green colour. 
FLOWERS growipg in racemi, numerous, from thirty 
to forty, or even more on one racemus. 
RACEMI lateral, oppofite, very long, nearly upright, 
FLOWER-STALKS fomewhat vifcid when magnified. 
FLORAL-LEAVES lanceolate. 
CALYX : a Perianthium deeply divided into four 
fegments, and permanent, the fegrnents ovato- 
lanceolate, pointed, fmooth, three-ribb’d, and 
nearly equal. Jig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata, pallide purpurea, 
lacinia fuperiore et duabus lateralibus venis 
faturatioribus flriata. Jig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta duo, purpurafcentia, medio 
crafliora ; An the r.c concolores ; Pollen 
album. Jig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen viride ; Stylus declinatus, | PISTILLUM : Germen green; Style depending 
purpurafccns, fuperne craflior; Stigma ob- $ purplilh, thickened above; Stigma blunt 
tufura, Jg. 4. * fig. 4 . 
PERICARPIUM: Capsula bilocularis, fubinde tri- 1 SEED-VESSEL : a Capsule of two cavities forae- 
locularis, fubrotunda, vix emarginata, poly- 4 times three, roundilh, fcarcely emarginate 
fperma. Jig. 5. ^ containing many feeds, Jig. 5. ° ’ 
SEMINA plunma, fubrotunda, minutiflima, Jg. 6. 0 SEEDS numerous, roundilh, and very minute, Jn. 6 . 
The Veronica Anagallis is a much more general plant than the Scutellata, being found in almofl every watery 
ditch, but efpecially in thole which communicate with the Thames, on the edges of which it is alfo extremely 
common. v ^ 
It is apt to vary confiderably according to fttuation ; when it grows in ditches that have a conftderable depth 
of water, it becomes much taller, the flalk is proportionably thicker, and the leaves are apt to be curled • 
when it grows out of the water, the plant is fmallcr, the leaves are broader, flatter, and of a paler hue ■ in all 
fttuations its racemi are remarkably long and full of flowers, and its feeds are uncommonly fmall aLd 
numerous. 1 
It blolfoms from June to September. 
The feed-veffels are fometimes found very much enlarged ; on cutting them open a fmall larva was found 
m fome, and a pupa in others, which, on being kept a proper time, produced a fmall Curculio or Weevil. 
| COROLLA monopetalous, and wheel-fhaped, of a 
P ale purple colour, the uppermoft fegment 
| and the two lateral ones ftreaked with deeper 
0 veins of the fame colour,^. 2. 
a STAMINA : two Filaments of a purplifh colour, 
1 thickeft in the middle; Anthera of the 
a fame colour; Pollen white, fio-. q. 
xv/vuiA annua, nbroia. A 
CAULIS ereftus, pedalis ad bipedalem, teres, fuban- 1 
gulofus, glaber, ad bafin ufque ramofus, in- a 
feme purpurafcens. 
FOLIA oppofita, fefiilia, lanceolata, faepe ovato - 1 
lanceolata, ferrata, glabra, venofa, pallide 
viridia. | 
FLORES racemofi, numerofi, triginta quadraginta aut $ 
etiam plures in fingulo racemo. $ 
RACEMI laterales, oppofiti, longiflimi, fubere&i. | 
PEDUNCULI ad lentem fubvifcidi. 
I 
BRACTEAE Ianceolatae. 
CALYX: Perianthium quadripartitum, perfiftens, I 
laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, laevibus, tri- 1 
nervibus, fubaequalibus, Jg. 1. ^ 
