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HYDROCIIARIDEyE 



flowers which grow 2 — 3 together from a: pellucid 2-leaved spathe ; 

 stamens 9 — 1 2 ; ovary 6-chambered, many ovules ; styles 6. — 

 Ponds and ditches ; not general. Th'e* cells of the seed-coat 

 gelatinise in water and emit their spiral thickening. (Name 

 from the Greek hudor, water, and chS'is, elegance.) — Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



Er.ODllA CAN'ADi!;NSIs 



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HVDROfHARlSi MORSL'S.RAN.E (Fn^g-bit). 



3. Stkati(_Vi k,s (Water Soldier), reprysented only by the one 

 species S. aloiiies, a submerged plant \'vith runners creeping in 

 tlie mu<l ; its leaves all radical, siiff, ascending, sword shaped, 

 spinuush' serrate, like those of an Aloe, brittle, dark a;reen ; 

 flower-stalk 5—6 in. high, bearing at its .fummit a 2-leavcd sheath, 

 containing either several delicate while staiiiiiiate flowers, each 

 with 12 or more stamens and numer'ous staniinodes, or one 

 earpellate flower with 6 2-rid styles an|l a 0-chaiiibered, many- 



