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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V4 #254



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>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:10:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ryan Mills <millsman7 at yahoo_com>
>Subject: Pilularia?
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>Hey everyone.
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>I aquired a small bit of a new and strange plant as a
>hitch hiker on something else.  It is a very small,
>green chain plant.  The runners and leaves are hard to
>tell apart and look the same---very, very thin and
>delicate.  It is about one half inch high.  Each plant
>has two or three leaves.  I have two small chains of
>the stuff, and one has some healthy looking roots on
>it.  It has a grassy appearance.  Sound familiar to
>anyone?
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>The Baensch Atlas books show two Pilularia (I think
>this name is correct) species that look a bit like it
>but taller with runners thicker than the runners.  I'm
>not even sure it's aquatic, but it looks like it
>somehow.
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>Does anyone have the answer to this mystery?
>Later, Cavan.
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From the description it could be Pilularia or it could be very small
Lilaeopsis.  I found a picture of pilularia in Rataj & Horeman.  it is an
aquatic fern, related to Marselia.  You can tell if it is Pilularia if the
new leaves come up coiled.


Paul Krombholz, in central Mississippi, where we are getting very dry,
again.