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Orver V.—HEXAGYNIA. 
855. WENDLANDIA. Willdenow. 
Calix 6-leaved. Corolla of 6 succulent? petals, 
Styles reclined. Germs 6. Berries each 1-seed- 
ed. Seed a compressed nut. 
A climbing dioicous shrub; leaves alternates racemes 
superaxillary. Scarcely distinct from Menispermum, with 
which it ought again to be compared. 
Species. 1. W. caroliniana. (Menispermum corolinia- 
num of Walter and Michaux, Fl. Am. 2. p. 242.) 
a 
Orper VI.—POLYGYNIA. 
356. ALISMA. ZL. (Water-plantain.) 
Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3. Onna many 1- 
seeded, not opening. 
olate leaves; panicle simple or compound, 
branchlets ternately verticillated. (In 4. natuns, the lew 
are elliptic, the peduncles 1-flowered opposite the 
and the fruit striated.) Nearly allied to, and 
tinct from Sagittaria. 
Spretes. 1. A. Plantayo. 2. natans, pus 155 
also indigenous to Europe. There are of this s fenus also 
3 other species in Europe, 2 in tropical America, and 1 ia. 
Guinea. Mr. Pursh’s J. trivialis and 2. parviflora appear 
to be only varieties of 2. Plantago. nee nmr see 
. Sagittarja. 
Aguatie plants with cordate, sagittate, ovate, or are | 
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