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. ‘ 2i twofold root ; the one large, hollow and joint- 
ed, running along the mud, and, here and there, 
• puts out tufts of leaves ; the other is lefs, com- 
pofed of white fibrous tufts From the joints a- 
rife feveral round, thick, juicy, hollow leaves, 
about two or three inches long, afcending ob- < 
liquely in a circle ; among thefe grows a round h 
hollow naked ftalk, its cavity divided by a ^ 
fmn intermedium^ two or three foot high, accor- V 
' <jing to the. depth of the water, above which it M 
pfually rifes near half a foot •, this ftalk bears n 
bluifii or whitifh flowers,' ^‘monopetalous, tube- •) 
r lous, ' and narrow, like fome of the lip-flowers, 
fet alternately on fliort pedicles, each divided in- • 
to five fegments ; the two' uppermoft are narrow, 
^inted, and eredl: ; the other three, round, . 
* ^ troad and pendant, the middle one being largeft : 
The ernpalement is oblong, and divided into ’ 
five narrow fegments : The fruit is long, co- 
" nical, and largeft where joined with the flower j 
it confifts of three or four pouches, each has a 
■^proper placenta, and are all joined to axis 
mediusy containing fmall reddifli feeds. It has a 
milky juice. We have byt one fpecies of this 
‘plant, vi%. 
Gladiolus lacufiris Bortmanniy R. *287. lacujiris 
Cluftiy five Liicojum paluftrey fiore [uhcoertileo Bauhiniy 
P. 1250. - Leucojum palufire fiore fuhccerukoy C. 4 1 , 
Water Gladiole. In Windermere water, and in fe- 
veral other lakes, both in Cumberland and Weftmore- 
land\. ' . ^ - 
Polygala, Milkwort. The leaves ,grow alter- 
* nately : The ernpalement confifts of five leaves \ 
two large ones, which expand like wings, and 
three fmall, and fharper pointed : The flower is 
c monopetalovis, anomalous, and perfonated, the 
back part being perforated, and the fore part bi- 
' ' labiated *, the upper lip is bifid, the undq*- cufi- 
