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LIMNOCHARIS* Humbdldti 



Humboldt s Limnocharis . 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



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Botany, p. 253.) 



LIMNOCHARIS Rich. — Flores tripetaloidei. Staminum series exte- 

 rior sterilis. 



i. Humboldti; foliis subrotundo-ovatis cordatis natantibus costa inflata, 



pedunculis unifloris articulatis teretibus. 

 ^. Humboldti. Richard in mem. mus. 1. 369. f. 19. i/awio. e* tfwnM, «. 



#• <?f «/>./>/. 1. 248. Hooker in bot. mag. 3248. 

 ktratiotes nymphaeoides. Willd. sp. pi. 4. 821. 







New aquatic stove-plants are almost as uncommon as 

 new hardy evergreens ; and if they are less valued than 

 the latter, it is only because their beauty must of necessity 

 °e confined to the few whose wealth enables them to enjoy 

 the pleasure of extensive hothouses. Generally plants of 

 this description are very beautiful, either in their flowers 

 °r their foliage, or remarkable for the singular manner in 

 which nature has enabled them to pass their lives amidst 

 the water. Unless provided with floating apparatus, the 

 small quantity of air contained in their leaves would be 

 insufficient to support them on the surface of the water ; 

 and they would sink and drown like animals themselves. 

 «ut to prevent this occurrence we always find some curious 

 a nd beautiful contrivance, such as a distension of the leaf- 

 stalk, till it assumes a swollen and gouty aspect; or the 



j. * The name of one of the heroes in the Battle of the Frogs and Mice ; 

 "terally « Lake-lover." 



The strong Limnocharis 



With heaving arms a massive fragment caug] 



And fiercely flung where Troglodytes fought. 



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