Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

MONOECIA DIANDRIA. 537
D 1 A N D R I A.
LEMNA. Gen. pi. 1038.
MASC. Cnl. nionophyllus. Cor. niMd.
FEM. Cal. monophyllus. Cor. nulla. Siyl. i.
Caps, nnilocularis.
LEMNA foliis petiolatis lanceolatis. Sp. pi. 13* 6.
(Ger. em. 830, /. 2, Michel, gen. t. 11, f. 5.
Roes. hifi. Polyp. /. 72, frontlfpiciali ad imum.)
Ivy-leav'd Duck's- Meat. Anglis.
In clear ftagnant waters, as in Didijlon-Loch. Dr.
Farfons. n. VI.
The ilalk is dichotomous, filiforme, and divari-
cated, having a lanceolate leaf at the angle of
the branches, but proliferous ones, terminating
the branches ; i. e. fimilar leaves growing out of
their fides at right angles : where thefe three
leaves are ccnjoin'd there flioots out a pendeni;
radicle, with a conical papilla at its bafe.
LEMNA foliis felnlibus utrinque planiufculis,
radicibus folitariis. Sp. pi. 12,-6. {Gcr. em 829,
KaiiSynops. 120. t. 4,/ i. Michel gen. t. i r, /.
^, Blacked, t. 580. Rocs. hljl.Fojp. t. 72 ^ 74,
f, 12.)
The lead Duck's Meat. Jr.glls.
In flagnant Waters common, o. VII.
It produces its fiowers in the Dog-days, which, to-
gether with the feeds, afford a nourilh-menc to
that wonderful animalcule cnlJed the Hvdra Pc-