304 -75. TTEIIOAOEiE. " 



often wanting. Fr. t-frice'aa largb as that of Cs 'i)erna^-^eXe when 

 dry. — Sometimes tjie 1. are all roundly ohovate-,gpathulate. C. 

 sifl//n»/& Bab. hot Scop.^ — Common, especially 6u mud. A. or 



p.v:-ix. :'■.';'-'■,, .1 ' ^-s-^- 



S.^ CJiajmiMta (Kiitz.)'; fr. br6alder thanlong nearly sessile 

 or stalked, lobes parallel and _ cohering in pairs bluntly keeled on 

 the hack flat on the fades, stylfes divaricate and reflexed over 

 .the side? of the fruit^^laracts, falcate very deciduous. — R.y. 130. 

 — L. linear;, upper opeg hrpafler in the mlfldle;' uppermost oyate- 

 apathulate. Bracts hooked, overlappipg, perhaps confined to 

 the rdale flowers. ,Fr. small, the, ^^ize of that of C. v^sfiiu.^fi. 

 C. pedunculata ' (DC .) ; 1. linear, upper 1. , rather broader, £r. 

 stalked. Plant usually very small. jE. B. 8. 2606.^ — Lake's and 

 streams, -<^. Marshes. A.> or P. VI. — IX: E. S. I. 



4. , C autummjUs ('L.);,,;fr. pearly sessile, lobes nearly free 

 spreacling Uroadly and acutely, wi/u/ed at the bacl;, styles spreading, 

 bracts 0, 1. all linear and broadest at the, base. — E. B. S. 2732. 

 — ^Pr. 4 times as large as in C. verna, dark brown, 1 or 2 of the 

 lobes often' abortive. L.i dark gridn, all submersed, very abrupt 

 at the end. — Rare. Anglesea. Several Scottish lakes. Cong, 

 Mayo:" A.orl*. VI.— IX;";-'7'':7' --■'•--• - v^E.-S. I. 



Order I.XXY. URTICAGEiE. 



M 



Ji: monoecious, dioecious, or rarely perfect. Perianth inferior, 

 4— 3— 6-parted, imbricate; or entire in the female flowers. Stam. 

 definite, firee, inserted at the base of the perianth and opposite to 

 its lobes. Ovary, free, 1-celled; pvules^plitary. , Stigmas 1 — 2. 

 Fr. not bii'rstiiig.— See 'O: F. G.' J^ohocAl'. 28, 20,' 30'. 



1. Pabietaeia. Fl. polj^gahiou'sj surrounded by ail inyolucre. 

 Perianth belkhaped, ,4-parted. , Stam. 4. Style 'filiform. 



2. UetiOa. Fl. mdncecious on dioecious. ' Males' in loose 

 racemes; perianth 4-parted ; .stam. 4. Females in capitate 

 racemes ; periantli- 2-part6d ; stigma sessile. \ 



S, liuMULUS. Fl. dioecious. Males with the perianth 6- 

 parted ; stam. 5, Fent^es with th^ perianth spalelike, 9pen, 

 hidden by th^ scales of an ;©v^l catkip ; stigmas 2, loiig. 



1. Paeieta'ria Linn. ''^aR PeHitory. 



1. , P. diffusa (Koch)'; 1. elliptic or eUiptic-lanceolate 3-^Veiped 

 above the base, bracts combiped into an involucre of two 3-lobed 

 segm., perianth bellshaped equalling the stam,.oi^ in the perfect 

 fl. (red) lengthening to tWce as'long as tlie^taliiens. — Cirrt. ii. 

 203. — St. prostrate 'or' "ascendiiig, simple br' branched below. 



