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HEXANDRIA FOLYGYNIA. 



209. ALISMA. Water-plantain. 



Lin)i.Ge7i.\8\, Juss.46. F/. Br. 400. Br.Prodr.342. Lam.t.272. 



Gcsrtn. t. 84. 

 Damasonium. Tourn. t.\Z2. Juss.46. 

 Actinocarpus. Br. Prodr. 342. 



Nat. Ord. Ti'ipetaloidece. Umn, 5, Junci. ixxss. IS \ Alis- 

 macece. Br. Prodr. 34'2. 



Cal. inferior, of 3 ovate, concave, permanent leaves. Pet. 3, 

 roundish, much larger than the calyx, and alternate there- 

 with, flat, widely spreading, deciduous. Filam. awl-shaped, 

 shorter than the corolla. Aiith. roundish. Germefi supe- 

 rior, more than 5, ranged variously, tumid or compressed. 

 Styles simple, slender, oblique. Stigmas obtuse. Caps. 

 as many as the germens, compressed, externally rounded. 

 Seeds small, solitary, rarely 2 together ; embryo undivided, 

 curved. 



Aquatic, perennial, smooth herbs, with simple, entire leaves, 

 and numerous, stalked, white, yellowish, or purplish, pa- 

 nicled or umbellate, inodorous^otu^r^. 



1. \. Plantago. Greater Water-plantain. 

 Leaves ovate, acute. Capsules obtusely triangular. 



A. Plantago. Linn. Sp. PL 486. M'illd. v. 2. 2/6. Fl. Br. 400. 



Engl. Bot.v.l2.t. 837. Curt.Lond.fasc.5.t.27. Hook.Scot.\l4. 



Fl. Dan. t.56\. Ehrh. Herb. 1 28. PL Of. 4 1 4. Br. Prodr. 342. 

 Damasonium n. 1 184. HalL Hist. v. 2. 79. 

 Plantago aquatica, RaiiSyn.2b7. M atth.Valgr. v. \. 438. f. Camer. 



Epit. 264. f. Fuchs. Hist 42. f. Dalcch. HisL 1056./. 1057. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 788./. 

 P. aquatica latifolia. Bauh. Pin. 1 90. 

 P. aquatica major. Ger. Em. 417. f. 

 Broad Water Plantain. Pet. H. BriL ^43./ 6. 

 /S. Alisma lanceolata. With. 362. Sym. 90. 

 Plantago aquatica longifolia. Dill, in Rail Stjn. 257. 

 Narrow Water Plantain. Pet. H. Brit. t. 43. f. 7. 

 y. Plantago aquatica leptomacrophyllos. DHL in Raii Syn. 258. 



Loes. Pruss. 199. t.62. 



In pools, ditches, and the margins of rivers^ common. 

 Perennial. Jul//. 



