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HEXANDRIA FOLYGYNIA. 



209. ALISMA. Water-plantain. 



Xirtn.Gera.181. Jmss.46. Fl.BrAOO. Br.Prodr,342. Lam.t.272. 



Geertn. t. 84. 

 Damasonium. Tourn. t. 132. Juss, 46. 

 Actinocarpus. Br. Prodr. 342. 



Nat. Ord. Tripetaloideee. Linn. 5. Junci. Juss. 13! Alis- 

 macece. Br. Prodr. 342. 



Cat. inferior, of 3 ovate, concave, permanent leaves. Pet. 3, 

 roundish, much larger than the calyx, and alternate there- 

 with, flat, widely spreading, deciduous. Filam. awl-shaped, 

 shorter than the corolla. Anth. roundish. Germens supe- 

 rior, more than 5, ranged variously, tumid or compressed. 

 Stifles simple, slender, oblique. Stigmas obtuse. Caps. 

 as many as the germens, compressed, externally rounded. 

 Seeds small, solitary, rarely 2 together ; embryo undivided, 

 curved. 



Aquatic, perennial, smooth herbs, with simple, entire leaves^ 

 and numerous, stalked, white, yellowish, or purplish, pa- 

 nicled or umbellate, inodorous^j^ow^r^, 



1. A. Plantago. Greater Water-plantain. 



Leaves ovate, acute. Capsules obtusely triangular. 



A. Plantago. Linn. Sp. PL 486. Willd. v. 2. 276. Fl. Br. 400. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 837. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 27. Hook. Scot. 



114. Fl.Dan.t.56l. Ehrh. Herb. 128. PL Off. 414. Br. 



Prodr. 342. 

 Damasonium n. 1 184. Hatt. Hist. v. 2. 79. 

 Plantago aquatics. RaiiSyn.257. Matth. Falgr.v. 1. 438./. Camer. 



Epit. 264./. Fuchs. Hist. 42./. Dalech. Hist. 1056. /. 1057. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 788./. 

 P. aquatica latifolia. Bauh. Pin. 190. 

 P. aquatica major. Ger. Em. 417. f. 

 Broad Water Plantain. Pet. H. Brit. t. 43./. 6. 

 /3. Alisma lanceolata. With. 362. Sy7n. 90. 

 Plantago aquatica longifolia. DHL in Raii Syn. 257. 

 Narrow Water Plantain. Pet. H. Brit. t. 43. f. 7. 

 y. Plantago aquatica leptomacrophyllos. DHL in Raii Syn. 258. 



Loes. Pruss. 199. t. 62. 



In pools, ditches, and the margins of rivers^ common. 

 Perennial. Jiilij. 



