POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Sagittaria. 
Male. Filam. about 24. 
Fem. Seeds many, naked. 
sagittifo/lia, S. Leaves arrow-shaped, acute. 
E. bot. 84—Gies. 64-Fl. dan. 172-Wale, “B=Dod. 588. 2= 
Lab. obs. 161.2, and ic. 3. 302. 1—Ger. em. 410. 2=Park, 
1247. anF- B. iii. 789—Pet. 43.11. 
done in Pet. 43.9; baie reed which fae Mare eas water, 
arrow-shaped, very entire, smooth, with parallel ribs and a net- 
work of veins. Leaf-stalks tapering, convex underneath, con- 
cave above, covered by the water. Flowers 3 in a whirl, 
Flower-scales smail, oval leeecaieced. 1 t the fale of each fruit- 
stalk, embracing the stem. Frunatalés of the barren flowers an 
inch long, of the fertile flowers about ah an inch, and stronger. 
al. 1 \eaf with 3 divisions. Lower flowers female, -t od upper 
~ with from 1.to 5 pistils ; none stamens 
Flowers white with a purplish tinge at. es claws of the. . 
but Bs ‘eadily falling off that it is difficult to carry tfipes home 
for examination 
Commun Arrowhead. Ditches and banks of slow rivers, 
P, July.* 
Var. 2. smaller. Ger. 337-7. B. iii. 790. 2=Pet. 43, 12. 
On the Thames shore, over against Lambeth palace; and 
before the E, of Peterborough’s bo ouse, above the horse ferry, on 
Westminster side. R. Syn he other varieties mentioned by 
pte appear to me to differ merely in size, ‘The ?of Linneus 
of Hall. i is surely imaginary, for the strap-shaped igs 
al tes always found both before and after flowering. Woopw. 
re is always a bulb at the ete part of the root, growing in the 
solid Boag ‘ema ¢ mud. This bulb constitutes a considerable part 
of the oft “te and u that acc — ~ vin ig it. 
Horses, goats, and swine cat it; cows bas not fond of it 
