twice the length of oe petal eartcti the lower , 
segment set: aceous; leaves oval, acute, bractes acuminate. — 
allied to feels Willd. ‘». s. In Herb. 
SE white. 
repens. Root creeping; Meanie and bractes lanceo- 
es iste ae, lip 3-parted, lateral segments setaceous; spurt - 
scarcely the length of the germ, adscendent; inner petals — 
- biparted, the lower segmenit setaceous. Has. On the 
margins of ponds near Savannah in Georgia and in Caro- 
Jina; subaquatic. Oxs. Root perennial, fibrous, creeping, — 
base of the stem also radicant; fibres lanuginous. Stem 
‘leafy, about 12 inches high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
cimate, in the spike diminishing to bractes, mh 
re about equal with the flowers. Spike Jinear, 3 ae 
“inches long. Flowers yellowish-green, numerous, but 
% notdense. Qutersegments of the calix glandularly mu- | 
se - cronulate, upper segments vaulted; the 2 inner petals bi- 
— fid nearly to the base, with the divisions so unequal and 
se divaricate as to appear pasonnected, the upper one linear 
ose and acute, the lower setaceous; lip 3-parted, the central. 
ies Gustin shorter and linear, the 2 ied setegegy+- 
ah 
* ett ag Anther. persistent, parallel with the stigma, 
BR rr 4 to the summit of the stigma, the par- 
arinaccous or angular.” R. Brown. 
DYERA. R. Brown, Neorria. Willd. 
aringent; the 2 lower petals placed un-— 
, ~4 sae which _ is undivided above. — 
bcos Uesouypedcoates tes the Ist, also indigenous 
ie < Europe. 
. NEOTT IA, Poatk h. ieee 
placed Bn: 
vior leaves” 
