Cheshire. — Cornwall ; in a watery lane near Penzance. — Cumberland ; Ulls- 
water; Cullgaith Moor, School, and Mr. Carlyle’s Land; Low Holm Mine; 
foot of Derwentwater; Loweswater; Crummock Lake; and Buttermere. — 
Devon; Bovey Heatlitield ; Sandy Plat, near Widdecombe-in-the-Moor ; Bogs 
on Woodbury Hill ; Haldon ; and on the margin of the great pool near the sea 
between Slapton and Torcross. —Dorset ; Wareham Heath near Sherford Bridge 
and Sandford Bridge; and between Wareham and Woodbury Hill; near the 
road, not far from the two milestone going from Wimbourneto Poole. — Hants; 
In the margin of Woolmer Ponds, near Selbourne. — Kent ; Upon the bank and 
the sides of the Baptist Pond, Brabourne Leas.— Lancash. Crosby Marsh, near 
Liverpool. — Middlesex ; Bogs on Hartfield Common ; and on Hounslow Heath 
in many places, particularly in the ditch on the S. side of Whitton Gardens. — 
Norfolk ; Muddy margins of several of the broads, abundant. — Northamptonsh. 
Kelmarsh Lane. — Northumberland ; At Prestwick Car, and on the shores of 
Bromley and Greenley Loughs ; also by Holy Island Lough ; by Roadley 
Lake; and by Hoseley Lough. — In Nottinghamshire. — Shropsh. Ellesmere 
Mere. — Suffolk ; Oulton Broad, by Lowestoft; atCavenham; Salt Waters at 
Benacre near the sea ; and on Belton Common .— Surrey ; Battersea Common ; 
Hedge Court Pond, E. Grimstead; and ponds on Esher Common, near the 
grounds of Claremont — Sussex; Horsham Common; Plummer's Plain; Til- 
gate Ponds ; and Pilt Down. — Worcestersh. Pensnett Reservoir, near Stour- 
bridge. — Yorksh. Downholme Moor; Scarborough Mere; Stockton Common, 
and Terrington Car ; wet places on Hutton Moor ; and on Blackmoor, near 
Leeds.— In many parts of WALES, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Root somewhat fleshy, tap-shaped, with many simple fibres ; as 
well as some horizontal runners from the crown. Stem. none. Leaves 
all radical, ascending, strap-shaped, entire, semicylindrical, and 
fleshy, from 1 to 4 inches long, usually smooth, sometimes rough 
with hairs. Scapes several, from 1 to 3 inches long, bearing sterile 
or stameniferous flowers , their 4 filaments very long and weak. 
Fertile Flowers 2, sometimes 3, sessile, in the axils of the leaves, 
at the base of the stalk of the sterile flower (see fig. 7). Style long, 
thread-shaped, white. Capsule, or Nut, (fig. 8.) small, elliptic, 
brown, dotted, covered by the corolla (fig. 5). — Mr. Griffith 
observes, that “ this plant is truly amphibious, growing in most of 
the lakes of N. Wales several feet under water, but it never flowers 
except when on shore, or in water about one inch in depth,” I 
find this to be the case also with plants which have, for several years, 
been cultivated in the aquarium of the Oxford Garden. 
The Natural Order Plantaginea: consists of Herbaceous 
plants, which are usually stemless. Their leaves are flat and ribbed, 
or taper and fleshy. Their flowers usually perfect, seldom sepa- 
rated ; spiked, rarely solitary. The calyx is 4-parted and persistent. 
The corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, and persistent, with a 4- 
parted limb. The stamens are 4, and are inserted into the corolla, 
alternately with its segments ; the filaments are thread-shaped, and 
doubled inwards in aestivation ; the anthers are versatile and 2- 
celled ; the ovary is sessile, 2-, very seldom 4-celled ; the ovule 
peltate or erect, solitary, twin, or indefinite ; the style is simple and 
awl-shaped, with a simple, hispid stigma ; the capsule is membra- 
nous, and opens transversely ; the seeds are sessile, peltate, or erect, 
solitary, twin, or indefinite; these have a mucilaginous testa; an 
embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen ; an inferior radicle ; and an 
inconspicuous plumula. See Lindl. Syn. 
The only other British genus in this order is Plantago, t. 207. 
