Pl.end.ph • 24. JUNCAGINEiE. 158. Scheuchzeria. 219 
Juqchs floridus minor, Bauh. Pinax , 12. 
Juncoidi affinis palustris, Scheuchz . Gram. 336. 
Scheuchzeria palustris, lin. S. P. 482. 
Spongy bogs ; perennial ; June. 
Scape 9 in. high; leaves longer than the scape ; spike % 
to 6-flowered. 
II. 159. TRIGLOCHIN. Linnaeus. Arrowgrass . 
Perigonium 6-sepaled ; sepales deciduous, 3 inner nearly 
petaloid; stamens 6, very short; ovaries 3 or 6, connivent; 
stigmata 3 or 6, radiating at the tip of the ovaries; pericarps 
(camares) regmata? 3 or 6, 1 or 2-seeded, affixed at top to 
a common axis. — Root fibrous, thickened in the upper part 
as if bulbose ; scape round ; leaves semicylindrical, bundled, 
sheathing at the base; spike linear, many-flowered; hractece 0, 
Triglochin palustre . Marsh arrowgrass , 
Capsules 3, smooth ; etarion linear, narrowed at bottom,, 
Juncago palustris vel vulgaris, Rail Syn. 435, 1. 
Gramen aquaticum spicatum, Ger. era. 13, 2. 
Gramen aquaticum spicatum alterum, Park. 1279, 
Triglochin palustre, Lin. S. P. 482. 
Spiked watergrass. 
Meadows and sides of water; perennial; July. 
Leaves linear, channelled; scape 12 in. high. 
2. Triglochin maritimum. Sea arrowgrass , 
Capsides 6, furrowed ; etarion oval. 
Gramen maritimum spicatum, Raii Syn. 435, 1 ; Park. 1270, 
Gramen spicatum alternm, Ger. cm. 20. 
Triglochin maritimum, Lin. S. P. 483. 
Saltmarsh spikegrass. 
Meadows near the sea ; perennial ; May to August. 
Leaves broader and more fleshy than the former. 
Lam. XX. 25. HYDROCHARIDEiE. De Candolle. 
Perigonium petaloid, 6-sepaled, adherent to the ovary ; 
stamens 9 to 20, on the ovary in hermaphrodite flowers, or 
in its place in male flowers ; ovary 1, 1 or many-celled ; 
stigmata 3 or 6, 2-cut ; pericarpium 1 or 6-celled ; seeds 
many; spermodermis simple; perisperm fleshy; corculum 
basillary. — Herb aquatic, floating ; root fibrous ; flowers 
hermaphrodite or unisexual. 
Stamens 6; capsides roundish, leathery 
Hydrocharis. 160. 
fitamens 20; capsides narrowed, fleshy 
Stratiotes. 161. 
