6z% DIOECIA ENNEANDRlA, 



The annual root, branched ftalk, fucculent habit^ 

 Imooth leaves, and time of flowering, will rea- 

 dily diflinguifli this from the preceding. To 

 which may be added, that the furrows of the 

 gennen in this have none of thofe barren filaments 

 which are found in the foregoing. 



Tournefort informs us that the Fr en cb make afyrup 

 of the juice of this plant, two ounces of which 

 is given for a purge ; and that they ufe it in 

 ciyfters and pefTaries, mixing one quantity of 

 honey to one and a half of the juice. In England 

 it is out of ufe. 



HYDROCHARIS. Gen. pi. 1126. 

 MAS.Spaiba 2-phylla. Cal. 3-fidus. Con 3-petaia. 



Filament a 3 interiora ftyllfera. 

 FEM. Cal. 3-fidus. Ccr. 3-petala. Siyli 6, Caps. 

 6-locularis, polyfperma, infera. 



Mor/us. HYDROCHARIS. Sp. pL 1466. (Ger. em. 818. 

 rana^u Pet. herb. ^ 71./. 2.) 



Frog- bit. Anglis. 



In ditches and flow-flowing waters, but rare. Sib- 

 baid. We found not this ourfelves. %. VII. 



The leaves float upon the water, and are kidney- 

 fhaped, or nearly orbicular, with an indenture 

 at the infertion of the footfl:alk ; they are not 

 much larger than a fliilling, and are of a tough 

 coriaceous fubftance. The male flowers anfe 

 commonly three from each Spathay fupportedon 



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