Identifier: illustratedguide00stev Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921 Subjects: Plants Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Text Appearing Before Image: not by leaves reduced to bracts, Avhich are shorter than the smallflowers. Stamens 8. In ponds and quiet waters. 2. M. alterniflorum, DC. Loose-flowered Water-milfoil. Sub-mersed leaves finely feather-formed. Flowers alternate. Ponds, lakes andstreams, Mass. and Lake Champlain. 3. M. verticillatum, L. (Fig. 5, pi. 105.) Wiiokled Water-milfoil.Plant of deep or shallow water. The arrangement of submersed leavessimilar to that of No. 1. The floral leaves are conspicuous and like thoseunder water are finely dissected. Stamens 8. 4. M. tenellum, Pigel. (Fig. 2, pi. 105.) Slender Water-milfoil.Plant, growing mostly at borders of ponds, 3 to 10 in. high. Stems nearlyleafless, or with very small capillary appendages. Flowers in a spike onupper part of stem. Stamens 4. 5. M. humile, (Paf.) Morong. (Fig. 3, a and I, pi. 105.) LowWater-milfoil. Plant of ponds and ditches. The form growing in mud,out of water, Fig. 3, b., about 1 to 2 in. high, with the uppei; leaves, WATER MILFOIL FAMILY mm 433

Text Appearing After Image: Plate 105 1. Hippuris vulgaris. 2. Myriophyllum tenellum. 3a Myriophyllum humile, aquatic form. 3b Myriophyllum humile, land form. 4. Myriophyllum spicatum. 5. Myriophyllum verticillatum. 6. Myriophyllum heterophyllum. 7. Myriophyllum scabratum. 8. Myriophyllum Farwellii. 9. Proserpinaca palustris. 10. Proserpinaca pectinata. 11. Trapa natans. 434 ARALIACEAE among which are found the small flowers, narrowly linear. The formgrowing in water has finely dissected leaves. Fig. 3, a. Stamens 4. G. M. heterophyllum, ilichx. (Fig. 6, pi. 105.) Various-leavedWater-MILFOIL. Plant of ponds and still waters. Stems stout. Lowerleaves dissected into fine capillary segments; the upper, floral leaves, egg-shaped or lance-shaped with conspicuous teeth. Flowers with 4 stamens. 7. M. scabratum, Michx. (Fig. 7, pi. 105.) Pinnate Water-mil-foil, (if. pinnatum, (Walt.) BSP.) Eesembles No. 5, but floral leavesare linear, with conspicuous teeth. 8. M. Farwellii, Morong. (Fig. 8, pi. 105.) Farwells Water-milfoil. Leaves in whorls of 3s or 63 or scattered, narrow, feather-parted, the divisio

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