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Bartonia virginica (L.) BSP. Infrequent around wet, 



sandy margins. 

 Nymphoides aquatica (J. F. Smel.) Kintz. A floating 



aquatic depending on nearly constantly standing 



water in shallow ponds. 

 Sabatia difformis (L.) Druce. Wet, sandy margins. 

 Haemodoraceae 



Lachnanthes caroliniana (Lam. ) Dandy. Sandy margins 



frequently with a thick growth of grasses and sedges. 

 Haloragaceae 



Myri oph ylluni laxum Shuttlew. ex Chapm. Submerged 



aquatic with emergent leaves; in water of shallower 



ponds. Brunswick County only, as yet. 

 Myriop h yllum pinnatum (Walt.) Blume. BSP. Submerged 



in a cluster of disturbed ponds in New Hanover 



County. Likely much more common. 

 Proserpinaca palustris L. Submerged and emergent in 



heavily disturbed ponds. 

 Lauraceae 



I.indera melissaefolium (Walt.) Blume. Reported from 



Bladen County in association with natural ponds 



(Melvin 19 54) . 

 Litsea aestivalis (L.) Fern. Occasionally tall shrub 



growing periferal to some ponds. 

 Lent ibulariaceae 



Plr.guicula caerulea Walt. Occasional on the sandy, 



grassy margins of some ponds. 



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