292 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Menyanthes, 
MENYAN'THFS.* Bloss. fringed : Nect. five, at the base of 
the germen : Summit bi-partite : Caps, one-celled. 
M. nympileoPdes. Leaves heart-shaped, very entire, waved: blos¬ 
som segments bordered, fringed above. 
Hook. FI. Land. 164— E.-Bot. 217— Ft. Dan. 339 —Tourn. 67— J. B . iii. 772. 
I—-Pet. 71. 4. 
( Stems extending several feet, branched. Leaves floating, heart-shaped at 
the base, rounded at the end ; sometimes spotted. Blossom yellow, ax¬ 
illary, more than an inch in diameter, disk radiating. Summit deciduous. 
-—When the fructification is completed, the stem, which rose many feet in 
order to support the flower above the surface of the water, sinks beneath 
it; there remaining till the next flowering season, when it resumes its 
annual task. T. T. E.) 
Fringed Water Lily. Fringed Buckbean. (Villarsia nymphoides. 
Vent. De Cand. Hook. E.) Large ditches and slow streams. Lake at 
Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Teesdale; brought thither from near York, 
by Mr. Teesdale. (Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart, in Eng. FI.), and not further 
north; also under similar circumstances in the ponds at Wallington, 
Northumberland. Mr. Winch. E.) In the Isis near Oxford; particu¬ 
larly at Ferry Hincksey. Mr. Butt. Found by Lord Lewisham in the 
Thames near Walton Bridge. E. Bot. ^ (In the Thames at Ankerwick, 
near Windsor. Rev. Dr. Goodenough, in Bot. Guide. Datchet Common, 
plentiful. Mr. Gotobed. In the Cam below Cambridge Fens, near 
Ely; Littleport and Old Bedford River. Relhan. Pond in London 
Fields, Hackney. Mr. J. Woods, jun. Bot. Guide. Ponds on Wands¬ 
worth Common. Mr. W. Christy. Wisbech river, a little before enter¬ 
ing that town from Downham. Dr. Skrimshire. ditto. In the Nyne at 
Peterborough, plentifully. Morton. In the back water of the Ouse at 
Hemingford, Huntingdonshire. E.) P. July—Aug.f 
M. trifolia'ta. Leaves ternate: blossom segments entire at the 
edge, shaggy on the upper surface. 
Curt. 240—( E. Bot. 495. E.)— FI. Dan. 541— Blackw. 474— Woodv. 5— 
Ger. 1024. 1 and 2 — Dod. 580— Lob. Ohs. 496. 2— Ger. Em. 1194— Park. 
1212— H. Ox. xv. 2. row 2, 1st figure on the left hand. 
{Root blackish. Stems ascending, leafy. E.) Leaves spear-egg-shaped. 
Blossom pinky and white, forming a spike-like bunch, with a floral-leaf 
at the base of each pedicle. One of the most beautiful of our native 
flowers. 
medicinal virtues have never been satisfactorily ascertained. How far the tender solicitude of 
Father Gerard, especially for the ladies enceinte , may be received with becoming gratitude 
by the present sceptical generation, we know not; but the above authority wains us not 
even to £< come neere unto it, or stride over the same where it groweth, for the naturall 
attractive vertue therein contained is such, that without controversie they that attempt it 
in maner above said, shall be delivered before their time; which danger and inconve¬ 
nience to avoide, I have, (about the place where it groweth in my garden), fastened stiekes 
in the ground, and some other stiekes I have fastened also crossewaies over them, least any 
woman should by lamentable experiment finde my wordes to be true, by their stepping over 
the same.” E.) 
* (From /ojv, a month ; and av&og, a flower, as continuing a month in blossom. E.) 
+ (In Japan the leaves are salted, and become a very glutinous substance ; it is used in 
soups, boiled in which it becomes tender. Kempfer, E.) 
