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HyDRopPELTIS PurpureA. PurpLes 
FLOWERED HyDROPELTIS, 
aaa ce Rseak sea sb de ak eae 
Clafs and Order, 
oe PoLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. ; 
figee® os Generic. Charager. 
~ Cor. (Calyx Juss.) 6-petala, perfiflens: petala 3g interiora 
longiora. Cap/ule 6—10, oblonge, difperme. 
Oss. Genus CALTHA affine, ig capes ee J 
oa Specific Name and Synonym. ' 
HYDROPELTIS purpurea. Michaux Fl. Amer~Bor. v. %. 
=e P- 323. f. 29. en ; 
IXODIA zatans. Soland. MSS. apud Banks. 
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Descr. * Stems long, rounded, floating on the furface of ; 
the water, covered with a vifcid tranfparent jelly, infoluble it _ 
water. The whole plant is coated more or lefs 
this gelatinous fubftance, but more efpecially the young fhoot 
and unfolded buds. It was from this quality, not eafily re- 
prefented by art, that Soranper gave it the very apt name of 
Ixopnra; but this never having been publifhed, was unknown 
_to Micuaux, who has applied to it one borrowed from 
the peltated’ leaves fo common to plants, inhabitants of 
deep waters, We adopt the one which has been already given 
to the public, though far lefs appropriate. Leaves peltate, 
elliptical, quite entire, fmooth above, rugofe underneath from 
the elevated veins which radiate from the centre in ftraightifh 
lines, branching as they approach the circumference. Peduncles 
-folitary, one-flowered, fhorter than the petiole, at the fide of | 
which, neither in the axil nor oppofite, they are inferted. 
Corolla dull purple, of fix lanceolate petals, the three exterior 
of which are fhorter, more obtufe, and, more ereét, the three 
interior, 
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