200 MISS A. M. GELDART ON STRATIOTES AL 0 IDE 5 , L. 
The following specimens from Sutton were exhibited when 
this Paper was read : — A plant with several young growing 
buds in various stages of development. Similar detached 
buds which had already started a separate existence ; one 
of them in section ; one with the membranous sheath still 
attached at base of stalklet. Fruit collected in September 
(see figs. 4 and 5). Specimen showing the joint of the pedicel 
(figs. 2 and 3). 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 
Illustrations 'reproduced from my water-colour sketches of fruit heads 
collected at Sutton (E. Norfolk), by Mr. W. A. Nicholson on 24th September, 
1905 - 
Fig. 1. Spathe with double keel on the smaller leaflet. Young fruit still erect 
and hidden by spathe. Larger leaflet hooded (pp. 189, 190). 
Figs. 2 and 3. Pedicel and ovary, showing the joint or fold in the pedicel by 
which the fruit is enabled to bend (p. 192). 
Fig. 4. A bending fruit (p. 192). 
Fig. 5. Another fruit, showing torn spathe-leaves (p. 193). 
LITERATURE RELATING TO STRATIOTES. 
Noi.te, E. F. : — 
Botanische Bemerkungen ttber Stratiotes und Sagittaria, Kopenhagen, 
1S25. 
Ki.insmann, Dr., in Danzig: — 
Ein Beitrag zur Entwickelungs-geschichte von Stratiotes Aloides, in 
Botanische Zeitung, i860, p. 81, 82, taf. 2, fig. A. a — c. 
Irmisch, Thilo: — 
Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des Stratiotes Aloides ; in No. 6. of ‘ Flora,’ 
(28th Feb. 1865,) Jahrgang 48, Regensburg, p. 81 — 91, t. ii, 1 — 20. 
Aschekson, P. and Graebnkr, P. 
Synopsis der Mitteleurop. Flora, 1896—1904. 
Reid, Clement — 
‘The Origin of the British Flora,’ 1899. 
On Paradoxocarpus carinatus, in Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. 
vol. v. p. 382 (with illustration), and vol. vi. p. 328. 
Sowerby, James and Smith, Dr. J. E. : — 
‘ English Botany,’ ed. i. vol. xi. p. 379, and ed. iii. edited by J. T. Boswell 
Syme, vol. ix. p. So, plate 1445. 
