44 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 



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Flowers every year during the dog days, LfNN. 



Least Duckmeat. Greeds. Pools, A, June*— Sept. 



gil/ba. £• I-eavcs sitting, hemispherical underneatli : roots soli- 

 dary. 



Mich. 11. 1. 2. 3 ; Lertt\cula~J. B. iii. 773. 3. 



Capsule with 2 -cells, containing 2 seeds, somewhat com* 

 ressed, and a little depressed in the middle, more globular when 

 uller advanced. Wiggejis. — PifFers from the L. minor in having 



the leaves inversely egg-shaped, narrowest where they art joined 

 together, the upper surface slightly convex and generally tinged 

 with purple 5 the under surface very convex, white, of a^ reticu- 

 lated spongy appearance, and filled with water, something re. 

 resembling the internal structure of Scirpus lacusfris, but not so 

 regular, Mr. Woodw. — Roots thread~shaped, from the centre 

 of the under side of the leaf. Leaves 3, 4, or 5 together, one 

 growing out of the edge of the other, oval, convex also on the 

 upper side, the under side porous, resembling pith. — Mr. Gougk 

 observes, that being intended to grow in ponds which fail in dry 

 Reasons, it may be recovered by moisture after being apparently 

 dead. Some which he exppsed for ten hours to the sun in July* 

 revived when replaced in water. 



Gibbous Duckmeat. L. minor gibla $ Huos. — Ditches and 

 ponds. [Lower Bishop's pool, Northwick, near Worcester, and 

 in a pool near the East side of Malvern Chace, Worcestershire. 

 Sept. 8, 1771). St.] A.July, Aug. 





hi 



oss. none. 



Male. A nectariferous gland at the bottom 

 of the flower. 







polyrhi'za. L. Leaves sitting : roots crowded. 



Ray 4. 2. at p* \bV-Vaill. 20. <2-Mich. 11.1, Lenticularia. 



Floats on the surface of the water on the appearance of the 

 swalfows, and sinks under water when they disappear with us. 

 Linn. — Leaves green above, purple underneath. It is so difficult 

 to deteft any of the species in flower, that some very able and 

 experienced botanists have concluded that the Genus should be 

 removed to the Crypjogamia Class; but I have examined some 

 of them in a flowering state, and can bear witness to the accuracy 

 of Michelis's figures. \ 



Greater Duckmeat. Ditches. A. May. Sept. 



Ducks and geese are fond of all the species. 



SA'LIX. Calkin each scale containing 1 flower: 



