PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Menyanthes. 275 



M. n. 633. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 280. 



M. palustre triphyllum, latifolium et angustifolium. Rail Syn. 285, 



M. palustre. Dalech. Hist. 1020. 2 fig. 



Trifolium paludosum. Ger.Em.WiA.f. 



In watery meadows, pools, ditches, and spongy boggy ground, fre- 

 quent. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root black, creeping, with long stout fibres. Stems ascending, 

 round, leafy. Footstalks round, stout ; sheathing and dilated at 

 the base. Leciflets equal, obovate, wavy, each with a thick mid- 

 rib. Clusters stalked, each opposite to a leaf, many-flowered, 

 erect, partly whorled. Bracteas ovate, 1 to each partial stalk. 

 Calyx obtuse. Cor. flesh-coloured ; its filamentous clothing 

 white 5 all together very elegant. Anthers yellow.' Fruit rarely 

 seen. The whole herb is very bitter, and a powerful sudorific. 

 An infusion of the leaves is a popular remedy for the rheumatism ; 

 and has been recommended in gout, scurvy, ague, dropsy, &c. 

 In small doses it is tonic. 



2. M. nymphaoides . Fringed Buekbean. Fringed 

 Water-lily. 



Leaves heart-shaped, wavy at the edges, floating. Corolla 

 fringed. 



M. nymphaeoides. Linn. Sp. PL 207. mild. v. \. 810. Fl.Br.226. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. f. 217. Fl. Dan. L339. 

 Villarsia nymphaeoides. Venten. Ch. 9, 

 Waldschmidia nymphaeoides. Wigg. Holsat. 20. 

 Nymphaea lutea minor, flore fimbriato. Rail Syn.368. 



In ponds, and the marginal recesses of large rivers, rare. 



In several parts of the Thames. At Ankerwyck, near Windsor. 

 Bishop of Carlisle. Near Walton bridge. Earl of Dartmouth. 

 In the lake at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, brought thither from 

 near York, by Mr. Teesdale. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root long and stringy. Stems several feet long, round, branching, 

 floating by means of their roundish-heart-shaped, very smooth 

 leaves, which are mottled above, purplish beneath j involute in 

 the bud, as in Nymphcea and Nuphar. Fl. axillary, on simple 

 aggregate stalks, without bracteas. Cor. 1 i inch wide, spread- 

 ing, yellow, with a darker radiating disk. Germen with 5 pur- 

 plish glands at the base. Stigma 5-cleft, notched, deciduous. 

 Caps, ovate, compressed. 



1 presume to correct the erroneous construction of the specific 

 name, as Tournefort, who has led every body else to write nym- 

 phoides, certainly did not mean to compare the plant to a nymph, 

 but to its fellow-creature the Nymphcea. 



t2 



r 



