[Plate 43.] 
THE TAYO-EOWED APONOGETE. 
(APOXOGETON DISTACIIYON.) 
A hardy Aquatic, from the Cape of Good Hope, belonging to the Natural Order of Arrowgrasses 
(Juncaginacece). 
^pttiUt C^^iractcr. 
TBE TWO-ROWED AP0N0GETJ5. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse, seven-nerved ; spike two-parted ; 
bracts oblong, in two rows ; cap taper-pointed ; stamens 
twelve. 
APONOGETON DISTACHYON; foliis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis obtusis septem-nerviis, spicA bipartite bracteis 
oblongis distichis, calyptra acuminata^ staniinibus 12. 
Aponogeton distachyon : Linn<^i Sujiplementtm, p. 215 ; Andrew's RepoBtiory, t. 290 ; Botanical Mag(mn^, t. 1292. 
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Several years have now 
naturalised in tlie tank 
ant 
species before us 
allusion was made, and it has since found its way, here and there, southward. It was introduced into 
Cornwall by Sir Charles Lemon, where, as well as in Devonshire, it seems to have as completelv 
established itself as if it were a native of the county. 
The correspondent, M^ho first brought the Devonshire plant under our notice, expressed a doubt 
whether it was really the two-rowed Aponogete ; its floM ers being so much larger than they are 
represented in books. There is, however, no doubt about its name being correct j the differences that 
have been remarked being the mere result of exuberant luxuriance. The specimens came from an 
Woolston, the seat of the Rev. Charles 
Kingsbridge, S. Devon, where the 
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thousands of delicious fragiant flowers throughout the summer ; and even in January bearing three 
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