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niose like the leaves; filaments 8, very short, pubescent; 

 anthers oblong, 2-celled. Female flowers smaller, short- 

 ly pedimculaie, u itliout any glands or vestiges of sL-^mi- 

 na. Siyle 1. Sti.i^ma thick and oblique. Germ inferior. 

 Berries small and collected into clusters, red and succu- 

 lent, sparingly scattered with scales, always more or less 

 acid. Seed subovate and shming, much like that oi Hip* 

 pophae, to which this genus is proximately allied. Hab. 

 On the banks ol the Missouri and the lesser streams, 

 from the confluence of the river Platte to the sources of 

 -he .Vlissouri. It is t]\e plant which produces what tlie 

 natives call the " Kabbit Berry " according to the narra- 

 tive oi Lewis and Clarke. 



2. canadenais. Leaves oblong-ovate, above nearly 

 smooth, beneath stellately pilose and scaly, scales ferru- 

 gino'i^, decidnous. Hipp'jphae canademls, Willd. Si.*. pi. 

 4. p. 744. Ph. 1. p. 115. Hab. On the borders of the lakes 

 m the v/Citern parrs of the slate ot New York, in Canada 

 and along- the "it. Lawrence to its sources. A shrub 

 about 6 or 8 feet \n^h. with all the characiers of the pre- 

 ceding. Berries squamose, sweetisii, but scarcely edible, 

 btamens 8. — -A North American genus. 



Order IX.— ExVNEANDRIA. 



99. HYDROCHARIS. L. (Frog bit.) 



Ma>c. Spathe 2-leavi'cl. Calix S-partedo 

 Corolla of 3 petals; 3 abortive styles. Fem. 

 Flower as ihe male. Stigmas 6, bifid. Infer- 

 tile, filaments .S: also 3 neciariferoiis glands. 

 Capsule 6-ccIled, many-seeded, inferior. 



Floating aquatics with creeping nodose stems, nodes 

 producing leaves and fiowers; leaves sheathing and fasci- 

 culated; flowers pedunculate, white. Anthei-s (in /I. 

 J\Torsiis ranee) adnate abovo the middle of the filaments. 



Species. 1. H. *cordifolia. Monoicous; leaves cor- 

 date-ovate; capsule mostly 8 or 9-celled. H. spongia^ 

 B? sc. Aiiuales du Museum. 9. o. 396. t. 30. \n incor- 

 rect and exag^kTr- rated figure. In the ie?ves of this plant, 

 which grows in abundance rounrl Savannah, I have not 

 been able to meet wim any process of a sprng-y or extra- 

 ord nary natu.ej as figured by Bopc. The leave are 5- 

 nerved, and nearly of the form and texture of Alisma plan- 

 vuL. II. X 



