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Grafly Sea-Pondweed. 
Potamogiton maritimum foliis gramintis. 
The root confifts of a few {mall fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, and branched, 
and three or four inches in length, 
The leaves are narrow, grafly, numerous, and 
of a faint green. 
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The male flowers ‘rife in catkins from the 
bofoms of the leaves; and are of a brownith 
colour. The female flowers ftand in a kind of 
umbells, and are greenith. 
We have it in the ditches of falt-marfhes, 
-flowering in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Bepopasdion maritimum gramineis 
longioribus foliis, frudtu fere umbellato. 
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GLASSWORT. 
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Sia flowet is compofed of a {quare cup, and a fingle filament, with a fimple ftyle rifing from 
the rudiment of the feed. This is its pal conftru¢tion. 
the cup fwells and enclofes it. 
The feed afterwards Tipens, and 
Linnzus places this among the monandria, his firft clafs; feparating it far from all the other apeta- 
lous plants, 
x. Jointed Glaffwort. 
Sakcornia geniculata. 
The root is fmall-and fibrous. 
The plant is of a moft fingular ftructure, re- 
fembling fome of the fubmarine more than the 
terreftrial kinds. 
The-ftalk is compofed of fhort, thick joints ; 
and is five inches high, and very much branched. 
The branches divide again, and are jointed more 
confpicuoufly than the main ftalk; and on thefe 
ftand the flowers, which are {mall and whitifh. 
The whole plant is naturally of a frefh green, but 
often red at the lower part, and fometimes 
throughout. 
It is common in our falt marfhes, and flowers 
in June, 
C. Bauhine calls it Kali Seniculatam 
Salicornia. 
The plant is diftinguifhed from all the others 
by the fuccnlency of its branches, and its want of 
Others, 
Gis ball gaaNhs bola. x8! - 
leaves; but there have been three or four va- 
rieties of it, folely owing to the manner of growth, 
defcribed by frivolous writers, as diftin& fpecies, 
under the names of myo/uroides, ramofior,and erefia. 
One there is truly diftinét, which follows. 
2. Shrubby Glaffwort. ’ 
Salicornia fruticofa. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftem is hard, woody, and brown. 
The branches are numerous and Saancts and 
they are naturally redith. 
The flowers are fmall, and redifh. 
We have it on our fea-coafts, flowering in 
June. 
Ray calls it Kali fruticofum perenne procumbens. 
The tender branches of the preceding kind are 
pickled for fampire ; but it is a fraud and they 
are much inferior. 
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HE flowers are of two kinds, male and female, and are produced on feparate plants of the fame 
fpecies. 
The male flower is compofed of five filaments, placed in a five-leaved cup. The fe- 
male is formed of a large, oval cup, flatted on one fide, made of a fingle leaf, and epuainigg with- 
“Out any filaments a fingle rudiment of a fruit, with two ftyles. 
Linnzus places this among the diacia hexandria. 
The Common Hop. 
Lupulus vulgaris. 
The root confifts of numerous, thick fibres, 
and fends out fpreading fhoots. 
The ftalks are tough, flender, ftriated, and, 
when fupported, rife to twenty feet. 
The leaves are large, broad, of a coarfe green, 
and beautifully divided, with age fegments fer- 
rated, 8 
The male flowers hang from fome of the plants 
in brown feries. The female, collected into 
heads, ripen upon others; and thefe are ufed 
in brewing. 
The plant is wild in our hedges, and culti- 
vated in grounds for the fervice of the brewery. 
Its young tops are alfo eatable as afparagus, 
and as pleafant. 
C, Bauhine calls it Lapulus mas et femina. 
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