HEXANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Alisma. 465 
stalks one or two from each joints erects simple, single-flowered. Pet. 
large, orbicular, white, with a yellow spot near the claw. Caps, six to 
twelve, (usually about eight. Linn.) oblong, recurved, beaked, copi¬ 
ously striated. Sm. E.) 
Creeping Thrumwort. (Floating Water Plantain. Welsh: 
Dyfr Lyriad nqfiadwy. E.) Lakes and wide ditches. South end of 
the Lake of Bala, Merionethshire. Mr. Wood. In a small rivulet on the 
west side of the lower lake at Llanberris, about half a mile from the old 
castle. Mr. Griffith. (In Keswick Lake. Hon. C. Greville. Ancot Pool, 
near Shrewsbury. Mr. A. Aikin. In Llyn Coron, Anglesey. Welsh. Bot. 
E.) P. July. 
A. ranunculoi'des. Leaves strap-spear-shaped, on leaf-stalks: (cap¬ 
sules five-angled, numerous, forming a globular head, their 
points diverging. E.) 
(Hook. FI. Lond.—E. Bot. 326. E.)—Fl. Dan. 122—J. B. iii. 783—Lob. 
Ic. i. 300. 2 — Ger.Em. 417. 3— Park. 1245. 2 — Pet. 43. 8. 
The whole plant has a very disagreeable smell. In places where the 
water is nearly dried up, the scape is from two to six inches high, hardly 
longer than the leaves, and some of the flowering branches trailing; but, 
where there is plenty of water, the scape rises from one to two feet, upright, 
naked, the umbels numerous, proliferous, and the root-leaves not greatly 
exceeding the leaf-stalks in breadth. Woodw. Capsules inversely egg- 
shaped, pointed. Blossom bluish white, opens about noon : (petals larger 
than those of A. Plantago. Leaves all radical. E.) 
(The Rev. Hugh Davies, in Welsh Botanology, applies the trivial name of 
repens to a plant generally resembling A. ranunculoides, and observed on 
the margins of several lakes in North Wales, so late as September and even 
October. “ It is entirely procumbent and trailing, striking roots repeatedly 
at short distances, about one, two, or three inches asunder, and much 
resembles Cavanille’s figure, tab. 55, as well as answers his definition, 
c A. caulibus repentibus, foliis lanceolatis petiolatis acutis.’ ” Those 
Botanists who have had opportunities of comparing larger specimens, one 
to two feet long, are convinced that this plant has no just pretension to 
be considered a distinct species. E.) 
Lesser Thrumwort. (Small Water Plantain. Welsh: Dyfr Lyriad 
bychan. E.) Wet turfy bogs. Giggleswick Tarn, Yorkshire. Curtis. 
Bungay, Suffolk; Ellingham Fen, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Between 
Burton and Derby. Mr. Whately. In the ditch at Goldmire, near 
Dalton. Mr. Atkinson. (About Bootle and Crosby, near Liverpool. 
Dr. Bostock. Not uncommon in Anglesey. Welsh Bot. In a ditch 
surrounding Feckenham bog, Worcestershire. Purton. E.) In the marsh 
at Marazion. Goonhilly downs, Cornwall; and Preston, near Kings- 
teignton, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. In dykes above Sandwich ; and 
at Ham ponds, Kent, abundant. Mr. Gerard E. Smith. (Not unfre¬ 
quent in the district of the Lakes. E.) P. June—Sept. 
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