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HEXANDRIA POLYGYRIA. 

 209. ALISMA. Water-plantain. 



iiwn.Gen.18l. Juss. 46. Fl. Br. 400. Br.rrodr.342. Lam.t.272. 



Gartn. t. 84. 

 Damasonium. Tourn. t. 132. Juss. 4G. 

 Actinocarpus. Br. Prodr. 342. 



Nat. Ord. Tripetaloidccu. Linn. 5. Junci, Juss. 13 ! Alis- 

 macece, Br. Prodr. 342. 



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. A?ith. roundish. Germeiis 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 purphsh, pa- 

 nicled or umbellate, modioxous Jlotsoers. 



1. K, Plantago, Greater Water-plantain. 



Leaves ovate, acute. Capsules obtusely triangular. 



A. Plantago. Linn. Sp. PI. 486. Wiild. v. 2. 276. H. Br. 400. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 837. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. /. 27. Hook. Scot. 



114. Fl.Dan.t.:)6\. Ehrh. Herb. \2S. PL Of. 4\4. Br. 



Prodr. 342. 

 Damasonium n. 1 1 84. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 79. 

 Plantago aqiiatica. Rail Sijn. 237. Matth. Falgr.v. 1.438. f. Camer. 



Epit. 264./. Fuchs. Hist. 42./. Dalech. Hist. 1056. /. 1057. 



Bauh.Hist.v.3.p.2.7S8.f. 

 V. luiuatica latifolia. Bauh. Pin. 190. 

 P. aquatica major. Ger. Em. 417./. 

 Broad Water Plantain. Pet. H. Brit. t. 43./ 6. 

 /3. Alisma lanccolata. With. 362. Si/m. 90. 

 Plantago aquatica longifolia. Dill, in Uaii Si/n. 257. 

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

 y. Plantago aquatica leptomacrophyllos. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 233. 



Locs. Pruss. 199. <. 62. 



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

 Perennial. July. 



