DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 



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very small reddish flowers, like those of the Oke, every flower 

 having foure very small round topped leaves. After every flower 

 commeth commonly foure sharpe pointed graines growing together, 

 containing within them a little white kernell. The lower part of 

 the stalke hath at every ioint small white threddie roots, somewhat 



POTAMOGETON DENSUS. 



long, whereby it taketh hold in the mudde, and draweth nourish- 

 ment unto it. The whole plant is comonlie covered over with 

 water. It flowereth in June and the beginning of July. I found it 

 in the standing pooles or fish-ponds adioyning to a dissolved Abbey 

 called Durford, which ponds devide Hampshire and Sussex, and in 

 other standing waters elswhere. This description was made] upon 



