KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 55. NIO 5. 



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Distribution. N. America, »Brandscomb Pond St Johns» »Morison Newf:d» 

 (hb. Stockholm.); »In paludibus ad South Natick, Mass., U. S. A.,» 81, Morong (hb. 

 Stockholm.). — The specimens from Pine plains, N. Y., leg. Hoysradt (hb. Stock- 

 holm.) must be considered the hybrid gramineus X natans. 



P. Morongii Ar. Bennett. 



Notes on Potamogeton, in The Journal of Botany, 1902, 145. — Fig. 98. 



The specimens of the collections here preserved are deprived of fruit, but their 

 other organs answer rather exactly to the description, and their habitat is not far 

 from the localities recorded by Ar. 



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Bennett, because of wliich I regard 

 my determination as correct. 



Floating leaves of our specimens 

 long-petioled (above 100 mm) vvith lan- 

 ceolate or oval laminse, 50 — 60 X 13—20 

 mm, the apex of which is a little 

 elongated, obtusely cuspidate. Ligules 

 45 — 55 mm long, persistent, with nu- 

 merous strong nerves, dark-brown or 

 greenish-brovvn, without ridges. Sub- 

 mersed leaves very narrow, faintly ca- 

 naliculate and 3-nerved, striate by the 

 numerous strong subepidermal strands. 

 The arrangement of those strands and 

 of the lacunar system is shown by the 

 figure added. 



Stem-anatomy much like the dia- 

 gram of P. natans: endodermis of more 

 or less one-sidedly thickened cells, two (three) circles of interlacunar bundles in the 

 bark and a full-numbered circle of subepidermal strands; epidermis with a one-celled 

 strengthening layer. The bundles of the central stele arranged according to the 

 trio-type diagram. 



Distribution. Japan, Tokio, Prof. R. Yatabe (hb. Uppsal.). 



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Fig. 98. P. Morongii Ar. Benn. A, Blade of a floating leaf \. 

 B, Transverse section of a submersed leaf us, Is, m, ii', sfr as in 

 tig. 97, 8 j !) . C, Part of a transverse section of the stem, see the text, 

 t°> e P> "pidermis, cc, central stele. 



Subsectio 23. Lucentes Graebner. 



Gaulis ut in prsecedente. Folia infima linearia ut in prseced., summa ssepe 

 coriacea, cetera semper membranacea lanceolata cuspidata, petiolata v. sessilia, serru- 



lata; 



ligulse 



persistentes ssepe fortiter bicostatoe. Pistillum stylo brevi. Fruetus 



