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I obferved it on the margins of fhallow rivulets, 

 but not very frequent, 11. V-Vil. 



It is a dwariifh creeping plant, overrunning the 

 rivulets in a mat : the leaves are fmooth, and iup- 

 ported on long footftalks : the flower is fmali and 

 ^hite, growing one upon a peduncle, oppofite 

 to the leaf: the Stambia are 5, and fometimes 

 10, 



R. foliis fubnierfis capillaceis, emerfis fubpelcatis. 



Sp.pl. 781. {Oed. Dnn. t. yjS. fine fol. pei talis. 



bene. Ger. em. 829./. \. fcl. peltcitis.i^ Sz-j.f.^. 



fol. capillaceis tantiim. Barrel, ic. c^Gj.fol. pelta- 



tis <y capillaceis. ic. 566. fol. capiJaceis tantum. 



Petiv. herb. t. ^9- f- i? 2, 3, A-) 

 Various-leav'd Water Crowfoot. Jnglis. 

 In lakes, ditches and rivers frequent. % . V. 

 It varies with and without the peltated leaves : in 

 " itill v/aters they are commonly feen, but not in 



rivers : the Petals are white, with yellow Ungues. 



They have no Scale^ bu: only a melliferous Pore 



at their bafe, furrcunded with a white circle. 



When in flower in the fpring it often makes the 



waters appear as white as fnovv. 



TROLLIUS. Gen pL 700. 



Cal-o. Petala circiter 14. r^/;j, plurim.a;, ovata,-, 



monofpcrma;. 



europ^us i* TROLLIUS coroilis conniventibus, neftariis Ion- 

 gitudine llaminum. Sp. pi. 7S2 [Oed. Dan. t. 



