484 CXIX. CALLITRICHACE^. Callitriche. 



sometimes cordate, nearly as broad as long, with a very short acumination. 

 Berries brown and glaucous. 



Order CXYII. SAURACE^.— Saururads. 



Herbs aquatic, with jointed stems. Leaves alternate, with stipules. 



Fls. in spikes, perfect, achlamydeous, each in the axil of a bract or scale. 



Sta. definite, persistent; anth. 2-celied, connectile thick, continuous with the slender filament 



Ova.— Carpels 3—5, each few-ovuled. 



Fr. — Capsule or berrj^ 3— 5-celled, few-seeded. 



Sds. usually solitary in the cells. Embryo minute, cordate, outside of hard, farinaceous albumen. 



Genera 4, species 7, natives of China and North America, growing in marshes and pools. Propertiei 

 unimportant. 



1. SAURtTRUS. 



Gr. aavpa, a lizzard, ovpa, a tail ; alluding to the form of the inflorescence. 



Inflorescence an ament or spike of 1 -flowered scales ; stamens 6, 7, 

 8 or more ; anthers adnate to the filaments ; ovaries 4 ; berries 4, 

 1 -seeded. 



S. cERNUus. WiLld. (Anonymus aquatica. Walt.) Lizzard Tail. 



St. angular ; Ivs. cordate, acuminate, petiolate. — 'Zj. An aquatic plant, with 

 neat foliage, and yellowish, drooping spikes of flowers. Can. to Car. and 

 W. States ! Stem H — 2f high, weak, farrowed. Leaves 4 — 6' long, and | as 

 wide, smooth and glaucous, with prominent veins beneath and on petioles 1 — 2' 

 long. Spikes slender, drooping at summit, longer than the leaf Scales tubu- 

 lar, cleft above, white. Flowers very small and numerous, sessile, consisting 

 only of the long stamens, and the ovaries with their recurved stigmas. Aug. 



Order CXVIII. CERATOPHYLLACEiE.— Hornworts. 



Herbs submersed, wth dichotnmous, cellular, verticillate leaves. 



Fls. monoecious. Cahjx many-parted. 



Sferi/e.—Sm. indefinite (16-20). ^w?;?. tricuspidate, sessile, 2-celled. 



Fertile.— Ova. free, 1-eelled, with a suspended, solitary ovule. Style iiuiorm, oblique, sessile. 



F/-.— Achenium beaked with the indurated stigma. 



Seed orthrotopous, suspended, exalbuminous, and containing 4 cotyledons. 



Herbs, floating. Leaves cellular, many-cleft, verticillate. 



This order consists of the following genus only, with e? species. They grow in ditches and pools, 

 Europe, Northern Asia, Barbary, and North America. 



CERATOPHYLLUM. 



Gr. Kcpas, a horn, (pvWov, a leaf; alluding to the horn-like divisions of the leaves. 



Character the same as that of the order. 



C. DEMERSUM. Homvjort. 



Lvs. 6 — 8 in a whorl, doubly dichotomous, dentate-spinescent on the back ; 

 fls. axillary ; fr. 3-spined. — 1|. An aquatic weed, in ditches, &c., N. Y. to Va. 

 "W. to 111. Stem floating or prostrate, 8 — 16' long, filiform, with numerous 

 whorls of leaves. They are dichotomously divided into 2 or more filiform seg- 

 ments. Flowers minute, axillary, sessile, with sessile anthers. Fruit an 

 oblong, beaked capsule, with 1 seed. .Tl. — Sept. 



Order CXIX. CALLITRICHACEJE.— Starworts. 



Herbs aquatic, small, with oviDosite, simple, entire leaves. 



Fls. axillarj', solitary, very minute, monoecious, achlamydeous, with 2 colored bracts. 

 Sta. 1, rarely 2; filaments slender; anthers Icelled. 2-valved, renitbrm. 

 Ova. 4-celled. 4-lobed ; ovtjlos soiitarj'. Styles 2 ; stismas simple points. 

 Fr. 1-celled, 4-seeded, indchiscent. Seeds peltate, albuminous. 

 Genus 1, species 6, growing in stagnant waters both of Europe and America. 

 CALLITRICHE. 

 Gr. naXos, beautiful, ^P'^, rpi^os, hair; alluding to the slender steins. 



Character the same as that of the order. — '^• 



C. VESN.4. (C. intermedia. Willd. C. aquatica. Bw.) 



Floating; vpper Jvs. oblong-spatulate, lower ones linear, obtuse or emar- 



