250 DIOECIA— MONADELPHIA. Juniperus, 



the base of the styles ; the flowers, though effectually 

 dioecious, as in Rhodiolay n. 457, are incompletely so in 

 structure. 



1. Vi. Mof'sus ran<B. Common Frog-bit. 



H. Morsus ranee. Linn. Sp.PlAAQQ. Willd.v.A.S\2. Fl. Br. 

 1084. Engl. Bot.v.\2.t. 808. Hook. Scot. 290. Curt. Lond. 

 fasc. 3. f. 64. Fl. Dan. t. 878, 



H. n. 1068. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 2]. 



Stratiotes foliis Asari, semine rotundo. Raii Syn. 290. 



Morsus ranee. Ger. Em. 818. f. Lob.Ic.596.f. 



Nymphaea alba minima. Bauh. Pin. 193. 



N. parva. Malth. Valgr. v. 2. 247./. Camer. Epit. 636./. 



N. alia minor alba. Dalech. Hist. 1010./. 



Frog-bit. Petiv. H. Brit. t.7\.f.2. 



In ditcheSj ponds, and slow streams. Rare in Scotland. 



Perennial. July. 



Root of many long, perpendicular, thread-shaped fibres, bearded 

 towards the end with numerous radicles. Leaves stalked, heart- 

 shaped, or kidney-shaped, rounded, obtuse ; purplish under- 

 neath, mostly floating, not 2 inches broad. Fl. numerous, 

 upright, very delicate, white, with a yellow central stain. Ray 

 mentions. Cant. 101, a double-flowered, very sweet-scented, 

 variety, as growing in his time plentifully in a ditch by the side 

 of Audrey Causeway, in the isle of Ely, near the great wooden 

 bridge ; but Mr. Relhan sought it there in vain. 



DIOECIA MONADELPHIJ. 

 460. JUNIPERUS. Juniper. 



Linn. Gen. 53\. Juss. 4]3. Fl. Br. 1085. Tourn.t. 36\. Lam. 

 t.829. Gcertn.t. 91. 



Nat. Ord. Conifer(S. Linn. 51. Juss. 100. 



Barr.J; Catkin conical, with 3, or more, rows of whorled, 

 imbricated, short, oval scales, 3 in each whorl, besides 

 a terminal one. Cor. none. Filam. in the terminal^ore/! 

 3, awl-shaped, united below j in the lateral ones scarcely 



