Handbook of the British Flora: a Description of the Flowering Plants And ...
Handbook of the British Flora: a Description of the Flowering Plants And ...
George Bentham
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In their general habit and small flowers they resemble Peplis, and some other semiaquatic plants of the Ly th- rum family, but the inferior ovary and other characters are entirely those of the (Enothera family. 1. Marsh Ludwigia. Ludwigia palustriB, Ell. (Fig. 346.) (Isnardia, Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2593.) A small glabrous annual, 3 to 6 inches high or rarely more ; the lower part of the stem creeping in mud or floating in water, branching and rooting at almost every node. Leaves ovate and entire,... 6 lines to an inch long. Flowers closely sessile, with a small green calyx, no petals, very small stamens, and an exceedingly short style, with acorn- paratively large capitate stigma. The capsule rapidly enlarges, being, VOL. I. z Digiti zed by Google ^82 THE OENOTHERA FAMILY. when ripe, about 2 lines long, oborate, with 4 green angles, and containing nmnerons minute seeds. In wet ditches, bogs, and pools, in central and southern Europe, central Asia, and North America, not crossing the Baltic to the northward.
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