An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 76 CABOMBACEAE. Vol. II. Leaves dissected, excepting the small floating ones ; stamens peltate, entire, floating; stamens i^-i8. I. CABOMBA Aubl. PI. Guian. i: 321. slender, coated with gelatinous matter, branching. Leaves petioled, peltate, thefloating ones small, entire; stibmerged ones opposite, palmately dissected into nume
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . 76 CABOMBACEAE. Vol. II. Leaves dissected, excepting the small floating ones ; stamens peltate, entire, floating; stamens i^-i8. I. CABOMBA Aubl. PI. Guian. i: 321. slender, coated with gelatinous matter, branching. Leaves petioled, peltate, thefloating ones small, entire; stibmerged ones opposite, palmately dissected into numerouscapillary segments. Flowers small, white or yellow. Sepalsand petals 3. Stamens 3-6; filaments slender; anthers ex-trorse. Carpels 2-4. Stigmas small, terminal; ovules com-monly 3, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous, indehiscent, about 3-seeded. [Guiana name.] A genus of 4 species, natives of the warmer parts of species: Cabomba I. Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray. Cabomba. Caro-lina Water-shield. Fig. 1835. Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 47. 1837. Stem several feet long, branching. Submerged leaves op-posite or sometimes verticillate, petioled, i-2 broad, cen-trally peltate, repeatedly divided; floating ones alternate oropposite, linear-oblong, 6-io long; flowers long-peduncledfrom the upper axils, 6-8 wide, white, or yellow at basewithin;
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