MISS A. M. GELDART ON STRATIOTES ALOIDES, L. 1S3 
rotunda in Ray’s Synopsis (1690), and some commentators 
have mistaken Sagittaria for it (Smith’s Eng. FI. vol. iii. p. 35). 
Klinsmann says that the name is also applied to some 
Umbellifene ; and Vaillant applies it to Hottonia. 
STRATIOTES ALOIDES IX BRITAIN. 
The male plant is unknown in Britain. An illustration of 
the male llower was added by Dr. Boswell Syme in the 3rd 
ed. of Eng. Bot., but he mentions that he had not seen it in 
British specimens. 
The female plant occurs in Suffolk. Norfolk, Cambs, Hunts, 
Northton, N. Lincoln, Notts, Chester, S. and W. Lancs, 
S.E., S.W. and M.W. Yorks, and Northumberland (Top. 
Bot. ed. 2 and Suppt., 1905). It has been introduced into 
several other counties, e.g., I. of Wight, Oxford, Leicester. 
Near Abingdon (Berks) it is increasing fast (G. C. Druce, in 
litt.). Stratiotes is not mentioned in Turner’s Cat. of Plants 
(1596 — 99) nor in his Libellus de Re Herb: Nov: (1538). The 
first record for England is in Johnson’s edition of Gerard’s 
Herbal (1633): — “ Militaris aizoides. Fresh Water Souldier. 
I found this growing plentifully in the ditches about Rotsey, 
a small village in Holdernesse, and my friend Mr. William 
Broad obserued it in the fennes in Lincolnshire.”* 
How’s Phytologia Britannica (1650) : ” In the new Ditches 
of the Dutch workes at Hatfeild.” 
Sir Thomas Browne in ‘ The Garden of Cyrus,’ 1658 : — 
“ The like in fenny seagreen, or the Water Soldier, which 
though a military name from Greece, makes out the Roman 
order.” The arrangement of the leaves in this and some 
other plants he supposed to be “ defensative against lightning 
and thunder.” 
In Gough’s Camden (1789) : — “ In most of the broads 
down the two rivers leading to Yarmouth and at Acle.” 
In the Flowering Plants of Harleston. the Rev. F. W. 
Galpin : — “ formerly frequent, now rare ” ; see his account 
of its increasing rarity in the Waveney Valley, p. 29. 
* ‘ Journal 01 Botany,’ vol. xxxii. (1894), p. 342. 
