192 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Littorella. 



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nice inspection. Habitat ; gravelly places inundated in winter. 

 Mr. Stackhouse. 



Least Gentian. -Marsh Centory. Marshes in Cornwall, near 

 St. Ives, fin boggy places in Dorsetshire. Dr. Pulteney. 

 Also not unfrequent in Devonshire in similar situations. Sand 

 banks between St. Blazeybridge and the Par sand, Cornw. On 

 the bogs between Bodmin and Lestwithiel. Mr. Stackhouse.] 



A.July. 



LITTOREL'LA. M. and F. flowers on the same 



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lacus'tris. L. 



Male. BIoss. 4- cleft : cal. 4-leaved : stam. long. 

 Fern. BIoss. mostly 4-cleft : eaL none : style 

 long ; seed a nut. 



E. bot. 468-F/. dan. 17C-Plui. 35. 2-H. ox. viii. Q. 30- 



Giseck. 21— DtlL muse. 81 ; but the substances on the leave: 

 marked [a. a.) are thought to be Polypes. 



Its flower is that of Plant ago y but the Stam. and Pistils being 

 found in different flowers, and its fruit distinguish it from that 

 genus. The male flo we r on a stalk, taller than the female. The 

 female flower sitting at the root. Style often as long as the stalk 

 of the male flower. Linn. Fertile flowers 2, sometimes 3, at the 

 base of the stalk of the barren flower. Woodward. Leaves 

 rush4ike, flattish, convex underneath. Male flower terminating. 

 Relh. This plant is truly amphibious, growing in most of our 

 lakes several feet under water, but it never flowers except when 

 on shore, or in water about one inch in depth. Mr. Griffith. 

 It is frequent near the margins of many of our Highland lakes, 

 but being generally immersed, seldom flowers. The elongated 

 stamen?, which from their slender make hang down, and the 

 style which shooting upwards meets them half way, afford a 

 beautiful illustration of the sexual doctrine. Mr. Brown. 



Plantain Shoreweed. Marshy places in a sandy soil. [At 

 Hainford. Mr. Crowe.- — On the margins of Oulton Broad by 

 Lowestoft, plentifully. Mr. Woodward. — On the bank at the 

 South end of Balla Lake, Merioneth. Mr. Woodward. — -In a 



Mr 



July — Aug 





PLANTA'GO. BIoss. 4-cleft, permanent, the bor- 

 der broken back: cal. 4-cleft : stam. extreme- 

 ly long : cap. 2- celled, cut round, superior, 



ma'jor. P. Leaves egg-shaped, smooth : stalk cylindrical : spike 



tiled with florets. 



