950 DIOECIA— MONADELPHIA. Juniperus. 



the base of the styles ; the -flowers, though effectually 

 dioecious, as in RkocUola, n. 457, are incompletely so in 

 structure. 



1. H. Morsus rancB. Common Frog-bit. 



H. Morsus ran«. Linn. Sp. PI. 1466. Willd. vA. 812. Fl. Br. 

 1084. Engl. Bot. v. 12. ^.808. Hook. Scot. 290. Curt. Loud, 

 fuse. 3. t. G4. Fl. Dan. t. 878. 



H. n. 1068. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 21. 



Stiatiotes foliis Asari^ semine rotundo. Raii Syn. 290. 



Morsus ranse. Ger. Em. 818./. Lob. Ic. 596./. 



Nymphsea alba minima. Bank. Pin. 193. 



N. parva. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 247./. Camer. Epit. 636./. 



N. alia minor alba. Dalech. Hist. 1010./. 



Frog-bit. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 71./. 2. 



In ditches, ponds, and slow streams. Rare in Scotland. 



Perennial. July. 



Root of many long, perpendicular, thread-shaped fibres, bearded 

 towards the end with numerous radicles. Leaves stalked, heart- 

 shaped, or kidney-shaped, rounded, obtuse j purplish under- 

 neath, mostly floating, not 2 inches broad. Fl. numerous, 

 upright, verj' delicate, white, with a yellow central stain. Ray 

 mentions. Cant. 101, a doubled-flowered, very sweet-scented, 

 variety, as growing in his time plentifully in a ditch by the side 

 of Audrey Causeway, in the isle of Ely, near the great wooden 

 bridge j but Mr. Relhan sought it there in vain. 



DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 

 460. JUNIPERUS. Juniper. 



Linn. Gen.53l. Juss. 413. Fl. Br. 1085. Tourn.t.36\. Lam. 

 t.829. Gcertn.t.9]. 



Nat. Ord. CoyiifercB. Linn. 51. Juss. 100. 



Barr.Jl. Catldn conical, with 3, or more, rows of whorled, 

 imbricated, short, oval scales, 3 in each whorl, besides 

 a terminal one. Cor. none. Filam. in the terminal j^or^^ 

 3, awl-shaped, united below ; in the lateral ones scarcely 



