PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Hottonia. 53 



shag-g-y. E. B. 495. C. 4i. 17- Trifolium paludo- 

 sum. G. E. 1194. 



Watery meadows, pools, ditches, spongy, boggy ground. Peat bogs 

 on Bullingdon Green. Behind Headington Hill. Sh. Bogs 

 between the old and new road to Ensham, abundant. North 

 side of Shotover Hill. Bx. 



Per. May. 



Stem with sheathing foot-stalks. Fl. thyrsus stalked, opposite to 

 Is., each fl. bracteated. Cor. flesh-coloured, and clothed with 

 white. Anth. yellow. 



Many of our aquatics beautiful : this particularly so. Ls. bitter, 

 in infusion for rheumatism : powdered in the dose of one dram 

 purgative and emetic. Substitute for hops, two ounces supply the 

 place of one pound of hops. The bitter powdered roots eaten 

 instead of bread, in Lapland, during scarcity. The powder with 

 the infusion destructive to worms. Fl. Suec. 



VILLA'RSIA.' Villksia. 



V. nymphceoides. Fringed V^. Fringed Water-lily. 

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

 Corolla fringed. Menyanthes nymphseoides. E. B. 

 217. Sb. 73. 



Ponds', rivers. River near Botley-Bridge. Godstow-Bridge. 



Hincksey Ferry. Sb. Near Medley Lock, abundant. Between 



Sandford and Nuneham. Bx. 

 Per. June. 

 Fl. axillary, foot-stalks long. Cor. yellow, fringed, with the disk 



darker. A beautiful plant, with its yellow, biilliant flowers. 



The salted Is. become very glutinous, and in Japan are boiled 

 in soups. 



HOTTO'NIA/ Featherfoil, or Water-violet. 



H. pahistris. Water Featherfoil. Common Water-v. 

 Stalks solitary, many-flowered ; partial stalks whorled. 

 E. B. 364. C. fas. 1. 11. Viola palustris. G. E. 

 826. 



Clear ditches, ponds. Ditch round Christ Church Meadow. Sb. &c. 



Per. May. 



Ls. under water, deeply wing-cleft, or comb-like in shape, the seg- 

 ments linear, entire. Fl. whorls, and stalk above water, eight 

 or ten inches, solitary, erect. Fl. stalked, bracteated, pink^ or 

 rose-colour, resembling those of the Primrose. 



' After M. de Villars, author of a Flora of Dauphiny. 

 * So named after a Leyden Professor, Hotton. 



