



- OCTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Myriophyllum. 



32. Fabric. Stems numerous, simple 4 to 10 inches high, cy- 

 lindrical, smooth, hollow. Leaves numerous, growing without 

 order, egg-shaped, egg-spear-shaped, and in the younger plants 

 spear-shaped ; upwards distantly serrated, towards the base very 

 entire, fleshy, sea-green, sometimes tinged with purple. Stamen* 

 much longer than the blossom. Styles very short, pointing out- 

 wards permanent. Habit that of Sedum Telephium. Root white* 

 Stem simple, upright, leafy. Leaves serrated. Blossoms ter- 

 minating, yellow. 



Yellow Rose-nvort. Rose-root. Mountains of Westmoreland, 

 Cumberland, Yorkshire, and Wales. [On a rock on the summit 

 of Ingleborough, to the North West; and on a mountain called 

 the Old Man, at Coniston Water Head. Mr. Woodward* 

 High* street, Westmoreland, on the edge of a precipice called Blea 

 Water Cragg. Mr. Gough. — Near Mr. Rigge's slate quarry, 

 in Conistone. Mr. Jackson.] P. June, July.* 



MYRIOPHYL'LUM. Male and Fern, flowers 



frequently on the same plant. Cat. 1 leaf, 4- 

 toothed: petals 4, with claws: soon failing 

 off: styles none : nuts 1 to 4, covered with 

 a coat. 



M. Spikes interrupted, leafless. 



E.bot.SS-Fl. dan. 681-C. B. pr. 73. l-Park, 1257* 7~ 



7 



Flo<w< 





Wh 



shedding. 



Petals oval, concave, purplish without, 

 o _ „__. Mr. Woodward. 



Stems simple, or branched; divided within into about 16 hollow 

 cells. Leaves winged, fan-shaped 

 shaped. Flowers 4 in a whirl ; the males the uppermost, and 



leafii 



some of them containing the rudiments of 4 germens 



Spiked Water-Milfoil. Ditches ponds, lakes and still water. 



P. May— July. 



Var. 2. Huds. Broadish entire leaves at the base of the 

 whirls. Bobart in H. ox. 



M. Flowers in leafy whirls. 



FL dan. 1046-E. hot. 2\S-Cluj. ii. 252. l~Pari. 1256. 8- 



7.£.iii. 783. 2-Pt.6.S. 



3SS 



spica'tum* 



the upper of male flowers, somewhat crowded, the lower of fern, 

 flowers more distant. ** * * ^ 



verticilla'- 

 turn. 



* The root has the fragrance of a Rose, particularly when dried; but 

 cultivated in a garden, it loses most of its sweetness. Goats and sheep 

 *at it. Cows and swine refuse it. 



