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Stigmata 

 unilociilai 



ma. 



MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 



Bacca \ Stigma 5 



5 



polysp 



Berry 

 celled, many seeded 



1. Vulgaris. 



C. caulibus ramulis- 

 iie basi midis; ramu- 



Stem and branches 

 naked at base: branch 



articulis es terete, the jonits 



lis teretibus, 



foliosis; foliolis oblon 



gis, subulatis; bracteis I subulate; 



leafy; 



leaves obloisg) 



bracteas 



bacca brevioribus. 



shorter than the berry 



Leaves 



Sp.pl. 4. p. 183. Pursh,l.p. 4. Nutt. 2.p. 202. 

 Sf em submersed, branched, rough, brittle and gritty when dry. 

 six to eight, in a whorl as long as the joints and of the same texture, narrovr, 

 subulate, slightly channelled on the upper surface, the lower ones simp , 

 the upper bearing on their upper sides rows of erect leaflets, 1°"^/" ^^ ^f 

 among which the flowers are placed. Anther solitary, sitting at tne ^^^^ 

 the germ. Germ ovate, spirally striated, crowned with hve imie 

 SHgmas?) Fruit with a hard shell. Seeds imbedded m a reddish puip 



mith. Eng. Bot. No. 336. n u T hnve not 



Grows in ponds and ditches. Canada to Carolina, Fursh. i iw 



noticed this species in our low country. 

 Flowers June — July. 



2. Capitata. 



E. 



C? caule ramulisque 



Stem and branches 



teretibus, glabris; arti- terete, glabrous; joi h^ 

 culis foliolis; fructibus leafy; fruit in heaas, 

 capitatis; bracteis bac- bracteas a little long 



ca paulo longioribus 



E. 



than the berry 



Leaves 



Stem submersed, floating, terete, g^^^rous, somewhat diaphan^^^^^^^^ ^^, 

 in whorls, generally six, terete, very acute. Flowers, ^cry g^^^teal 



lected in axillary heads, at first sessile, afterwards Pjdun«^"'^y g^ooth, 

 leaves 4? transparent, acute, a little longer than the fruit. HC ^ 

 yellow. 



