. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. HETERANTHERA R. & P. Prodr. Fl. Per. 9. 1794: [Schollera' Schreb. Gen. 785. 1789. Not Roth. 1788.] Herbs with creeping, ascending or floating stems, the leaves petioled, with cordate, ovate, oval or reniform blades, or grass-like. Spathes i-flowered or several-flowered. Flowers small, white, blue or yellow. Lobes of the perianth nearly or quite equal, li
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. HETERANTHERA R. & P. Prodr. Fl. Per. 9. 1794: [Schollera' Schreb. Gen. 785. 1789. Not Roth. 1788.] Herbs with creeping, ascending or floating stems, the leaves petioled, with cordate, ovate, oval or reniform blades, or grass-like. Spathes i-flowered or several-flowered. Flowers small, white, blue or yellow. Lobes of the perianth nearly or quite equal, linear. Stamens 3, equal or unequal, inserted on the throat of the perianth. Ovary fusiform, entirely or in- completely 3-celled by the intrusion of the placentae; ovules numerous; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit an ovoid many-seeded capsule, enclosed in the withered perianth-tube. Seeds ovoid, many-ribbed. [Greek, referring to the unequal anthers of some species.] About 10 species, 2 in tropical Africa, the others American; only the following in the United States. Type species: Heteranthera reniformis R. & P. Leaves reniform, oval or ovate. One of the filaments longer than the other two ; flowers few or several. Flowers white, little exserted from the sheath ; leaves reniform. Flowers blue, much exserted; leaves ovate to subreniform. Filaments broad, equal; spathe i-flowered; leaves ovate to oval. Leaves linear, grass-like, 1. H. reniformis, 2. H. peduncularis. 3. H. limosa. 4. H. dubia. Mud Plantain. 1. Heteranthera reniformis R. &P. Fig. 1162. Heteranthera reniformis R. & P. Fl. Per. 1: 43. 1798. Leptanthus reniformis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 25. 1803. Stems creeping in the mud, rooting at the nodes. Leaves long-petioled, the blades reniform, wider than long, 8"-2o", wide, rounded at the apex; petioles sheathing, i'-4' long; spathe few-flowered; inflorescence little exserted; tube of the perianth straight or slightly curved, slender, about 4" long, it
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