i 82 miss a. m. geldart on stratiotes aloides, l. 
I have also been able to study two books borrowed from 
the Library of the Linnean Society, through the kindness 
of Mr. J. H. Gurney, F.L.S. The ‘ Botanische Zeitung ’ 
for i860, p. 81 and 82, containing Klinsmann’s account of 
his discovery of the germination and seedlings of Stratiotes 
of which he gives three illustrations (taf. ii. A, a — c), and 
pages 81 to 91 in ‘ Flora,’ 1865, giving Irmisch’s further study 
of the same subject, and figs. 1 — 20 in taf. ii. Klinsmann 
(i860) was so well satisfied with Xolte’s detailed account 
that to make any special addition to it, or to discover faults 
in it, he says, would be like looking for the needle in the bundle 
of hay. 
The first mention of the plant is by Dodonceus, in his 
‘ Krauterbuch,’ written in Dutch, 1553, under the names 
Stratiotes potamios and Sedum aquatile. Called Stratiotes 
Aloides by Linne, 1753 (Sp. PL 535) it is also known as 
Stratiotes foliis aloes, semine longo (Raii Syn. 290). 
Stratiotes aquaticus (Dalech. Hist. 1061, f.). 
Militaris aizoides (Ger. Em. 825. f. Lob. Ic. v. i. 375. f). 
Aloe sive Aizoon palustre (Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 778. f.). 
Yucca palustris septentrionalium (Tillands). 
Aloefolia palustris (Plukenet). 
In France it is Stratiote aloes ; in Belgium, Faux-alo^s, 
Valsche Aloes ; in Germany, Wasserfeder, Sickel or Sichelkohl, 
and Aloeblattrige Krebsscheere. The name in S. Germany 
is Scheeren, from the spathe which resembles crabs’ claws. 
In Johnson’s edition of Gerard’s ‘ Herbal,’ 1633, its 
English names are given as : — Water houseleek, Knights’ 
pondwort, Knights’ water sengreen, Freshwater soldier, 
Wading pondweed, Soldier’s yarrow, Knights’ water wound- 
wort. 
It is called Water-aloe by Petiver (c. 1657 — 1 7 1 8 ) , and 
Water Aloe or Freshwater Soldier by Hudson in ‘ Flora 
Anglica,’ and Sir James Smith in ‘ English Flora.’ Its 
local name in Central Cheshire is Water Pine. 
Old records of Stratiotes must be accepted with caution, 
for Achillea Millefolium is “ Stratiotes millefolia ” in Fuchs’ 
Hist. (1542), Hydrocharis is called Stratiotes foliis A sari semine 
