POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 295 



I obferved it on the margins of fhallow rivukts, 

 but not very frequent, 1;. V-VII. 



It is a dwarfilh creeping plant, overrunning the 

 rivulets in a mat : the leaves are fmooth, and fup- 

 ported on long footflalks : the flower is fmaH and 

 white, growing one upon a peduncle, oppofite 

 to the leaf: the Stamina are 5, and fometimes 

 10. 



Gquatilisii. R. foliis fubmerfis capillaceis, emerfis fubpeltatis. 

 Sp.pL 781. ified, Dan, t. '^^6. fine foL peltatis, 

 bene, Ger. em, 8 29./. \. fol. ■peltatis,^ "^i-j.f,^, 

 fol. capillaceis tantum. Barrel, ic. p^G^. fol. pclta- 

 tis &' capillaceis, ic, 566. fol, capillaceis tantum, 

 Pekv, herb. t. -2^^, f. 1^ 2, 3, 4.^ 

 Various -lea v'd Water Crowfoot. Anglis, 

 In lakes, ditches and rivers frequent. % , V. 

 It varies with and without the peltated leaves : in 

 (till waters they are commonly feen, but not in 

 rivers : the Petals are white, with yellov>/ Ungues, 

 They have no Scale^ but only a melliferous Pore 

 at 'their bafe, furrounded with a white circle. 

 When in flower in the fpring it often makes the 

 waters appear as white as fnow. 



TROLLIUS. Gen pL 700. 



Cal'O* Petala circiter 14. C^/;^. plurim^, ovat^e, 



monofpermas. 



enropceus u TROLLIUS corollis conniventibns, neflariis lon- 

 gitudine ftaminum. Sp. pi. ^^Sz {Oed, Dan. t, 



133- 



