"If they are the small bracts that sheath the bases") the rays they are prof:"red dotted, lacinate finfrriate" but as far too dry to see if "racemate tip." Sometimes with long acuminated tip sometimes short & rounded. Spikelets 5-8mm void rather than subcylindrical, more like ill ) S. validus (A) Reddish. Scales dis- inctly red dotted, finfrriate & in some cases with rib excurrent. Rheme 2mm wide shorter than scale but flattened on one side while convex on the other. Infl. nut lax. Prof. S. occidentalis (Plants had been completely under water for more than a day. Allan Mc Isaac said used to pack salmon for shipping) 9-13-27 Potamogeton natans L.# 12, BVB I 75-N.P. Does drupelet & nutlet & seed mean the same? If so put on sides not evident. If seed & nutlet mean something inside (as A says p 90) P.BX not able to remove pericarp. 9-18-27 Water memorialis cf & 8/6 BVBII 432 F.X. Dear H.P. Rose pink. Perhaps this is rose pink & numerous but Spence & Co Cable seen from R.R. 9-8-27