Class II. Order I, 8 



Synonym- CALLITRICHE VERNA. L. 



The stem is filiform, floating-, and composed of a double tube. 

 The leaves are small, opposite, inversely ovate or wedge-shap- 

 ed, rounded at the end, (not acute as in the European ;) the upper 

 ones forming- star-like tufts on the ends of the stem. Flowers 

 minute, axillary, solitary, sessile. It grows in fresh water, sup- 

 ported by its floating upper leaves ; flowering above, but ripen- 

 ing its seeds under water. Found in Roxbury. Annual. 



3. BLITUM. 



BLITUM CAPITATUM. Strawberry Blite. 



Leaves triangular-hastate ; heads alternate, form- 

 ing a terminal leafless spike. 



A weed in cultivated grounds, with a fruit resembling some of 

 the esculent, compound berries, but unpleasant. June. Annual. 



Class II. DIANDRIA. Two stamens. 



Order I. MONOGYNIA. One style. 

 A. Flowers inferior, monopetalous, regular. 



4. LIGU STRUM. Corolla four cleft ; berry two 

 celled, four seeded. 



B. Flowers inferior, monopetalous, irregular, fruit capsular. 



5. VERONICA. Calyx four parted ; corolla four 

 cleft ; rotate, the lowest division narrow ; capsule 

 superior, two celled ; obcordate. 



6. LEPTANDRA. Calyx five parted ; corolla tubu- 

 lar eampanulate ; stamens much exserted ; capsule 

 ovate, acuminate. 



7. GR ATI OLA. Corolla resupinate, four cleft, two 

 lipped ; calyx mostly seven leaved ; stamens four, 

 two of them barren ; capsule two celled. 



