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Diets, h. s.-Curt. 341~£. hot. 745-F/. dan. 932-Pod. SOU 

 3~Lob. obs. 41. 4 j ic. i. 80. 2-&r. em. 45. 2-Park. 1206. 

 2-J. 5. ii. 541.2-G<>r. 41.2-Ptf.72. 10~P*r£. 1205. 

 2, lowermost corner-H. ox. viii. 13. row 2. 2. 



Grows upright like the preceding, but is a much smaller 



Marshy- 



large 



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finds on heaths, and have been old gravel pits. 



S. Leaves prostrate, strap-shaped, flat. 



Dicks, h. *.-£. hot. 273-P/. dan. 260-Pet. 72. 11. 



Flowering stem very slender, not rising more than 6 inches 

 above the water ; undivided ; supporting a few balls of sitting 

 flowers, and those not larger than a pea. Leaves flat, floating on 

 the water to a considerable length. Woodward. Both before 

 the stem shoots up, and after the flowering, the leaves, which 

 much resemble those of the grasses, float on the surface of the 

 water like those of Festuca fluitans. The terminating ball of 

 flowers is entirely male, the lower ones female. Style short. 



Summits slanting. 



Sparganium simplex natans Huds. — Floating Burnveed. 



Pools, lakes, and slow rivers about Norwich. Llanberys, and in 

 Yorkshire and Westmoreland. [St. Faith's Newton. Mr. Pitch- 

 ford. — Stagnant waters in the Moss of Restennet, Angusshire. 

 Mr. Brown.] 





na'tans. 



P. July. 



DIGYNIA. 



PHA'LARIS. Cat 1 valves, 1 -flowered, keeled, 



" longer than, and inclosing the blossom : 



Nectary 2-leaved. 



P. Panicle nearly egg-shaped, spike -like: husks keeled, canarien'sis 



hairy : nectaries 2 : calyx double. 



Ludiv. 1 If-Schreb. 10. 2-Math. 9\$-Trag. 669-Ger. 80. I 

 -C. B. th. 534-ZW. 5W-Lob. obs. 26\ l-Ger. em. 86- 

 Park. 1 16'3. 1~7. B. ii. 442. 2-//. ox. viii. 3. row 3. 1- 



Spite, Mont. ±\-Fructif. Leers 7*3'rf+ 



Valves of the calyx with 2 green ribs on each side, and much 

 larger than the blossom. Within these are 2 other small* white, 

 skinny valves, not more than half the length of the blossom* 

 JMwf. the larger valve hairy, the other only so along its back. 

 sectary 2 fleshy, concave pear-shaped substances on the outside 

 the base of the blossom. 



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