FLOWERS RARELY FOUND 



87 



FLOWERS RARELY FOUND OR VERY 

 INCONSPICUOUS, 196-200 



196. Mare's-Tail, Ilippuris vulgaris, Mare's-tail family. A 

 not uncommon plant of quiet water : the stem is partly (or in 

 running water completely) submerged : it is simple or slightly 

 branched, with many whorls, of 6 to 12 stiff, narrow leaves, with 



196. Mare's-Tail. 



197. Water Milfoil. 



hard points : the submerged leaves are soft and long : flowers 

 very small, in the axils of the upper leaves, in summer. 



197. Water Milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum, Mare's-tail 

 family. A common plant of ponds and slow streams : the slender 

 stem bears whorls of 4 brownish, feather- 

 like leaves: the plant is submerged, 



except for the slender terminal spikes 

 of very small flowers, which appear in 

 summer. 



198. Water Starwprt Callitriche aqua- 

 tica t Mare's-tail family. An extremely 

 common plant of ditches, ponds, and 

 quiet streams : the stem is slender, 

 branched, and haa pairs of elliptical 

 leaves, broader towards the tip : in 



some forms the leaves are quite narrow and pointed: flowers 

 small, and green in the leaf axils : the plant is of a fresh green 

 colour. 



198. Water Starwort. 



