. Early British botanists and their gardens. Botany; Botanists; Botany; Plants, Cultivated. DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS very small reddish flowers, like those of the Oke, every flower having foure very small round topped leaves. After every flower commeth commonly foure sharpc pointed graines growing together, containing within them a little white kernell. The lower part of the stalke hath at every ioint small white threddie roots, somewhat. POTAMOGETON DENSUS. long, whereby it taketh hold in the mudde, and draweth nourish- ment unto it. The whole plant is comonlie covered over with water. It flowe
. Early British botanists and their gardens. Botany; Botanists; Botany; Plants, Cultivated. DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS very small reddish flowers, like those of the Oke, every flower having foure very small round topped leaves. After every flower commeth commonly foure sharpc pointed graines growing together, containing within them a little white kernell. The lower part of the stalke hath at every ioint small white threddie roots, somewhat. POTAMOGETON DENSUS. long, whereby it taketh hold in the mudde, and draweth nourish- ment unto it. The whole plant is comonlie covered over with water. It flowereth in June and the beginning of July. I found it in the standing pooles or fish-ponds adioyning to a dissolved Abbey called Durford, which ponds devide Hampshire and Sussex, and in other standing waters elswhere. This description was made] upon. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940; Goodyer, John, 1592-1664. Oxford, Printed by F. Hall for the author at the University Press
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