HTDEOCHARIS. — SIEATIOIES. — ANAOHAEIS. 323 



2. Stbatiotbs. Dioecious. Cal. 3-parted. Pet. 8. Male 

 with 12 or more stamens suiTounded by many abortive ones. 

 Fem. with 6 deeply bifid styles. Berry 6rc,elled, many- 

 Seeded.— L. swordshaped. 



3. Ajmachabis. Dioecious. Cal. 3-parted. Pet. 3. " Male. 

 Sep. ovate-oblong.' Pet. linear or none. Stam. 9 ; filameuti 

 Combined into a column below. " — -Fern, with a long- filiform 

 tuhe, 3 abortive filaments and ligulate stigmas. Caps. 1- 

 celled, few-seeded. — L. oval-oblong, in whorls. 



1. Htdeooh'aris lAnn. Frog-bit. 



1. H. Morsus-rOnce (L.);— ^. B. 808. St. 44. 16.' JJ. vii. 

 62. — Floating. With creepers bearing tufts of stalke^ round- 

 ish-reniform entire leaves. Fl. white, delicate, springing from 

 a pellucid membranous sheath. Seeds covered with beau- 

 tiful prominent spirally twisted cells. — Ponds and ditches. P. 



vn. vin. E. I. 



2. SiEATio'iBS Linn. Water Soldier. 



1. S. aloides (L.) ; 1. swordshaped-triangular ciliate-spinous. 

 — E. B. 379. Ri ,vii. 61. — Creeping ^ in the mud. L. many, 

 rigid. Stalk compressed, 5 or 6 m. high, with two 1. near its 

 summit.,, Fl. .jvhite, delicate. The plant rises to the surface of 

 the water to flower and sinks again afterw'ards. — Fen-ditches 

 in the East of England ; naturalized in Scotland and Ireland. 

 p.vn.< E. [S. I.] 



3. Anach'aeis Bkh. Water Thyme. 



*1. A. Alsinas'trum (Bab.) ; 1. 3 in a whorl oval-oblong blunt 

 serrulate, fem. fl. from a tubular bifid spath many times exceeding 

 the sessile germen, sep.' and pet. broad nearly equal, stigmas re- 

 flexed.—^. K If. Ser. 2. i. t. 8. K B. S. 2993. Hhdea cana- 

 densis, Benth. (Rich. ?). — St. long, branching ; whorls .of leaves 

 many, close together. Fl. very small but with a ver}' long- 

 slender tube oJften 2 or S in. long. ' The spath in thS axil of a 

 leaflike bract placed -within the whorl of leaves. Sep. tinged 

 with green and pink externally, incurved, hooided. Pet. flat, 

 transparent, recurved, oblong. Filaments at first curved out- 

 wards, their points placed under the hood of the sepals, after- 

 wards erect, linear, blunt. Anth. 0. Stigmas recurved, linear, 

 or deeply bifid. Sep. pet. and stigmas of about equal length. 

 Style aiiate on 3 sides to the tube. Male fl. unkno-wn in Eng- 

 land. — In water. Probably introduced from America. Canals 

 and rivers. P.VIl.-IX. E.S.I. 



