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ORD. XXIX. HALOEAGACE^E. 

 HIPPURIS. MAEE'S-TAIL. 



H. vulgaris (common M.) In shallow ponds and watery- 

 ditches. Whorls of about 8 leaves ; the flowers are at the base 

 of each of the upper leaves. Fruit a small, oblong, 1-seeded 

 nut. Pools about Dartmoor. (E. B. t. 763.) P. Yl. VII. 



MYRIOPHYLLUM. WATER -MILE OIL. 



M. spicatum (spiked W.) Ditches and ponds. Leaves 4 

 in a whorl, and submerged. A slender spike protrudes from the 

 water, bearing minute flowers arranged in whorls ; the upper 

 flowers are male, the lower female, very small. Fingle Bridge, 

 near Chagford. (E. B. t. 83.) P. VI. vn. 



ORD. XXX. LYTHEACE^l. 



PURPLE-LOOSESTRIFE. 



TJ. Salicaria (spiJced P.) Wet ditches, watery and marshy 

 places, common. Flowers reddish-purple, in large handsome 

 spikes of dense whorls. Road to Ansti's Cove. Forde bog, near 

 Newton, and generally diffused in moist situations. (E. B. t. 

 1061.) P. vn.-ix. 



FEPLIS. WATER-PURSLANE. 



P. Portula (common W.) In wet ditches and watery places, 

 not unfrequent. A small slightly branched annual, creeping and 

 rooting at the base ; leaves opposite ; plant seldom more than 3 

 inches high. Flowers sessile in the axils of the leaves. Mead- 

 foot, Torquay. Lustleigh. Buckland. (E. B. t. 1211.) A.vn. 



ORD. XXXI. TAMAEICACE^l, 



TAMARXX. TAMARISK. 

 T. Anglica (English T.) Rock, cliffs and shores by the sea. 



