HEXANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Allsma. $05 



In the great lake, below the old castle, at Llanberris, North Wales. 

 Mr. Brewer. At the south end of Bala lake, Merionetiishire. 

 Rev. W. Wood. In Keswick lake, Cumberland. Right Hon. 

 Charles Greville. Not uncommon in the Welsh lakes, thougli 

 seldom flowering. i?eu. //. Davies. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root fibrous. Stems floating, thread-shaped, varying in length 

 from 3 to 10 feet, according to the dej)th of the water, and 

 throwing out radicles, as well as a few leaves and flowers, from 

 every joint. Leaves floating, about an inch long, on still longer 

 footstalks, with membranous, ovate, concave stipulas. There 

 are numerous, radical, membranous, ribbed, tapering/oo^s^/ZA**, 

 3 or 4 inches long, bearing no leaves. Flower -stalks 1 or 2 from 

 each joint, erect, simple, single-flowered. Pet. large, orbicular, 

 white, with a yellow spot near the claw. Caps, from G to 12, 

 oblong, recurved, beaked, copiously striated. 



4. A. raminculoides. Lesser Water-plaintain. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate. Capsules angular, acute, nume- 

 rous, in a globular head. Stem none. 



A. ranunculoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 487. fVUld. v. 2. 2/9. Fl. Br. 402. 

 Engl. Bot. V. :>. t. ?,2G. Hook. Lond. t. 28. Scot. 1 1.>. FL Dan. 

 t. 122. Redout. Liliac. t. 2G8. 



Plantago aquatica minor. Raii Syn. 2o7 . 



P. aquatica humilis. Ger. Jim. 41 7./. 



P. aquatica humilis angustifoHa. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 77S, 2. J. 

 Lob. Ic. 300./. 



Small Water Plantain. Pet. H. Brit. t. 43./. 8. 



Ranunculus aquaticus, plantaginis folio angustissimo. Pet. Gaziph. 

 V, \.6.t.2G.f. 12. 



in swamps, and turfy bogs, not very common. 



Perennial. August. 



Root fibrous. Leaves all radical, linear-lanceolate, 3-ribbed, erect, 

 on long, flattish, or semi-cylindrical, liiglily vascular sUilks. 

 Flower-stalks radical, erect, from 3 to 10 inches high, bearing 

 I or 2 whorls of liglit-|)ur|)le //o//-rr.v. Capsules numerous, col- 

 lected into a globular head, obovate, compressed, pointed, with 

 .'"» strong ribs. 



F). A. rcpcns. Creeping Water-plantain. 



Leaves lanceohite. Capsules compressed, acute, numerou'^, 

 in a globular head. Sleuis prostrate, creepiug. 



A. repens. Davies ll'tlsh Hot. DG. Cuvnu. Ir. v. 1.11. /. '»."). 



On the margins of several lakes in North ^^'ales. Un. II. Darirs: 



Perennial. Sejdemhrr, Octohrr. 



