a — Hei VEGETASLE SYSTEM, 
GE oN es. vi 
SHEEP ROT, 
| | | HY DROC OT YL E, 
Charatter of the Genus, | i 7 
The Head is rounded ; the general Cup is compofed of four fharp pointed 
Leaves, The feparate F lowers are raifed on fhort and {lender Footftalks. 
Plate 9.0. abc, 
1 FIVE FLOWERED SHEEP ROT. 
1 \9 
Plate’ 9. Fig. I. 
Chara@ter of the Species, 7 Hydrocotyle Vulgaris. 
_ The Head is compofed only of five Flowers. ‘The Leaves are round and 
crenated ; and have their Footftalks inferted in their Centre. 
| Fig, 1. @ b. 
Rae THIs is a Perennial, native of our bogey grounds; a very low and {mall, but very ; 
fingular Plant; flowering in June. The Stalk never rifes from the ground, but runs. 
- upon it, rooting at the joints, and is of a whitith green. The Leaves are of a freth, 
though not ftrong green; their Footftalks are pale, and about an inch or little more in 
heighth. The Flowers are {mall and white; the Heads ftand upon very fhort Foot- 
ftalks, rifing from the main Stalk, ufually together with a Leaf. 
Ir has been a cuftom to range this with the Umbelliferous Plants, but its very afpect 
might have fhewn with how much violence to N ature. Here are no fecond Involucrum, 
nor divided Footftalks ; and we have thewn there is no Simple Umbell. The Plant is a 
true Aggregate. If the Segments of the Cup are united into one Body, and the F lowers 
drawn down into it, you would have a Dorftenia. 
ooo’ FLOWERED SHEEP: ROT. 
Plate 9: baeces 
Character of the Species, my Hydrocotyle Umbellata, 
The Head is compofed of a great many Flowers. The Leaves are waved 
at their Edge ; and have the Footftalk fixed in the Centre. 
; Fig. 2:-@ 3. 
Tuts is a Perennial, native of Penfylvania ; a Boge Plant as ours, and very like it in 
the general afpect. It flowers in June. The Leaves are of a fine freth green, and are 
placed on long Footftalks; the Flowers are {mall and white. 
-Onr’would imagine Linnzus had excepted againft the other Species of this Genus, as 
not belonging to the Umbelliferous Plants, by giving the word Umbellata, as the trivial 
name of this: but whatever exception (and there is fufficient) lies againft them, is good 
againtt this alfo, 
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