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SYSTEMATIC BOTANTv 



Natural Order 288. Marsileace^. — The Pepperwort Order. 

 — Aquatic herbs, with small floating or creeping stems {fig. 1088), 

 from which arise sessile (fig. 1088), or stalked leaves (fig. 343). 



Fig. 1088, 



Fig. 1088. The Creeping Pill-wort (Pilularia gldbuUfera). The stems are 

 creeping, and bear numerous sessile leaves, whicli are circinate in vernatiou. 

 The sporocarps are downy, and placed in the axils of the leaves. 



Fig. 1089 



Fig. 1089. Lj/copodium inundatum. Marsh Chib-Moss. The stem is creeping, 

 and beara numerous small, sessile, imbricated leaves. 



