MONOCHLAMYDEiE. 
Littorella . ] 
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Leaves mostly spreading, very variable in size and pubescence, pin- 
natifid ; segments often toothed or again divided. Scape hairy. 
Spike mostly cylindrical and slender. In small specimens from Staffa 
the spike is ovate, composed of not more than 7 or 8 flowers; whilst 
the leaves and scapes are quite hispid. 
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2. Littorella Linn. Shore-weed. 
Monoecious. — Barren fi. Cal. of 4 leaves. Cor. 4-fid, tube 
cylindrical. Stam. 4, hypogynous. — Fertile fl. Cal. 0 (unless 
three bracteas can be so called). Cor. urceolate, contracted at 
the mouth, 3 — 4-cleft. Style very long. Fruit hard and some- 
what bony, indehiscent, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded. — Named from 
littus, the shore, its place of growth. 
1. L. lacustris L. ( Plantain S .) : E. B. t. 468. 
In watery, sandy, and stony places ; particularly abundant on the 
margins of the Highland lakes, where it forms a green turf. 6. 
— Leaves all radical, linear, fleshy, semicylindrical, about 2 inches 
long. Sterile flowers solitary or sometimes 2 (Mr. W. Wilson ) upon 
a scape 2 — 3 inches long. Fertile fl. sessile in the axils of the leaves, 
surrounding the sterile peduncles. Germen oblong, green. Style 
very long, filiform. Stigma a mere point. 
Sub-Class IV. MONOCHLAMYDEiE. 1 (Ord. LX1X— 
LXXXVII.) 
Flowers incomplete. Perianth single ; in other words, the Calyx 
and Corolla forming but one floral covering, or altogether 
wanting. 
CoNSrECTUS OF THE ORDERS. 
A. Barren flowers neither in catkins nor cones ; fruit not surrounded by a 
hardened or prickly involucre. Style or stigma present. 
* Ovaries superior, several, distinct, each 1 -celled. 
[1. Ranunculace.®. Stamens hypogynous. Leaves without stipules. 
27. Rosace.®. § Sasguisokbid.e. Stamens perigynous. Stipules co- 
hering with the petiole.] 
** Ovary superior, solitary, 1-celled. 
| Ovules 5 or more. Fruit capsular, opening by valves. 
[66. Primulace.e. Perianth campanulate. Style 1. 
14. Caryofhyllaceje. § Alsine.e. Sepals" distinct or nearly so. 
Styles several.] 
ft Ovule solitary (or rarely 2). Fruit indehiscent. Leaves with stipules. 
72. Polygonace.e. Stipules forming a sheath round the stem or 
branch. 
k * From turn, one, or single ; and z'/.xu.'.;, a tunic, or garment. 
